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| battles = | awards = }} Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Hughes Rawlings (1889–1962) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean during World War II. ==Naval career== Rawlings was born in St Erth, Cornwall. Following education at Stubbington House School Rawlings joined the Royal Navy in 1904 and served in World War I.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 After the War he worked for the Foreign Office and undertook Military Missions in Poland.〔 He then commanded the destroyer HMS ''Active'' and then the cruisers HMS ''Curacoa'' and HMS ''Delhi'' before becoming Naval Attaché in Tokyo in 1936.〔 He served in World War II initially commanding the battleship , then commanding the 1st Battle Squadron from 1940 before commanding the 7th Cruiser Squadron from 1941 and becoming Assistant Chief of Naval Staff in 1942.〔 He became Flag Officer, West Africa in 1943 and Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean in 1943.〔 He went on to be Second in Command of the British Pacific Fleet with his flag in .〔(National Maritime Museum )〕 He commanded British ''Task Force 57'' in the Pacific from 1944 through the Battle of Okinawa in Spring 1945 and retired in 1946.〔 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「Bernard Rawlings (Royal Navy officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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