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Alban Curteis
Admiral Sir Alban Thomas Buckley Curteis KCB CVO DSO (13 January 1887 – 27 November 1961) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Senior British Naval Officer, Western Atlantic.
==Naval career==
Curteis joined the Royal Navy in 1902 and served in World War I.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He was appointed Commanding Officer of HMS ''Verity'' in 1922 and Flag Captain commanding and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the America and West Indies Station in 1928.〔(Unit Histories )〕 He was appointed Flag Captain commanding and Captain of the Fleet to the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet in 1931 before becoming Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1933.〔 He became Captain of the Fleet for the Home Fleet in 1935 and went on to be Commander of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport in 1938.〔
He served in World War II as Commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron from 1940 and then as Commander of the 2nd Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command of the Home Fleet from 1941.〔 In June 1942 he led Operation Harpoon, a mission to re-supply Malta which was becomong very short of food and medical supplies; the plan was to despatch a naval convoy from Alexandria but in the event the convoy came under Italian naval attack and suffered heavy losses.〔(Order of Battle Italian Attack on Operation Harpoon Convoy and Battle of Pantelleria 15 June 1942 )〕 He was made Senior British Naval Officer, Western Atlantic in 1942 and retired in 1944.〔
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