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Rear Admiral Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff (July 22, 1881 – July 15, 1963) was an officer of the United States Navy during the First World War and the Second World War. After early service in the Far East he specialised in gunnery, serving in that capacity on many US Navy capital ships. During World War I he served with the US Naval Force sent to join the British Grand Fleet. After the war he took command of multiple heavy units of the US fleet, before being appointed Judge Advocate General of the Navy in 1936. Thereafter he commanded various cruiser squadrons of the Atlantic Fleet before his retirement at the end of World War II. ==Early life and career== Rowcliff was born in Peoria, Illinois. He attended public school in Peoria before his appointment to the United States Naval Academy from Illinois in 1896. While a Midshipman he took an active part in fencing and intercollegiate tournaments which were being developed at that time. Graduated in May, 1902, he served the two years at sea which were then required by law before commissioning and was commissioned Ensign in May 1904. Rowcliff was subsequently promoted as follows: Lieutenant (both grades) May 2, 1907; Lieutenant Commander, March 22, 1915; Commander, July 1, 1919; Captain, February 23, 1925; and Rear Admiral, January 1, 1936. He was transferred to the Retired List of the Navy in that rank on August 1, 1945. After graduation in May, 1902, he was ordered to the Asiatic Station, where he joined the gunboat , a unit of the Asiatic Fleet on patrol duty in Chinese waters. When the ''Wilmington'' was placed out of commission on June 30, 1904, at Cavite in the Philippines, he was transferred to the , a coast battleship on duty in Pacific and Asiatic waters, and served in that vessel until her decommissioning in May 1906.
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