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Admiral The Hon. Sir Alexander Edward Bethell GCMG KCB (28 August 1855 – 13 June 1932) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. ==Naval career== Born the second son of Richard Augustus Bethell, 2nd Baron Westbury,〔(The Bethell Family and Wadeford House )〕 Bethell joined the Royal Navy in 1869.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 In July–August 1899 he commanded the ''Arethusa'', which was commissioned for the annual manoeuvres.〔''Navy List, August 1899, corrected to 18 July 1899 - Supplement: Ships and Officers Engaged in the Naval Manoeuvres'', page 28.〕 He was given command of the cruiser HMS ''Naiad'' serving in the Mediterranean Fleet in March 1901, and landed the Somaliland Field Force in East Africa〔 before returning to the United Kingdom to become Assistant Director of Torpedoes.〔 He was given command of the battleship HMS ''Hindustan'' in 1908.〔 He was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence in 1909.〔 In that capacity he attended the famous CID meeting on 23 August, at which the government rejected the Royal Navy's proposal that 5 divisions guard Britain whilst one land on the Baltic coast in the event of war with Germany. Instead the Army's plan, to send an Expeditionary Force of between four and six divisions to France, was adopted.〔Jeffery 2006, p96-7〕 He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1912.〔 He was appointed Officer Commanding the Royal Navy War College at Portsmouth in 1913.〔 He served in World War I as Commander, Battleships for the 3rd Fleet.〔 He was President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, from 1914 to 1915 and was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, in 1916 and Admiral commanding the Coastguards and Reserves in 1918.〔 He retired later that year.〔 He lived at Wadeford House in Combe St Nicholas in Somerset.〔 He died in a London nursing home on 13 June 1932.〔Admiral Sir Alexander Bethell" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 15 June, 1932. Issue 46160, col C, p. 9.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Bethell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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