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Vice Admiral Henry George "Harry" DeWolf (26 June 1903 – 18 December 2000) was a Canadian naval officer who was famous as the first commander of during the Second World War. ==Early years== DeWolf was born in Bedford, Nova Scotia. His father owned and operated DeWolf & Sons, a ship brokerage business. DeWolf entered the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1918 at age 15 when he attended the Royal Naval College of Canada at Esquimalt, British Columbia.〔(Vice-Admiral Harry DeWolf: A Canadian Naval Legend )〕 The original RNCC had been destroyed in the Halifax Explosion the previous winter. DeWolf graduated from RNCC in 1921 and was sent on an exchange with the Royal Navy to serve on board the battleship . He was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1924 and took a six-month course in gunnery, torpedoes and navigation at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Returning to Canada in the summer of 1925, he was posted to one of the RCN's two destroyers, .〔 In early 1930, Lieutenant (Navy) DeWolf received his first command, the at Halifax. In May 1931, he married Gwendolen Gilbert of Somerset, Bermuda, whom he had met while serving aboard HMCS ''Patriot'', which had spent a winter training there several years earlier. In 1932, DeWolf was posted to the destroyer and then in 1933 to the destroyer .〔 In July 1935, he was promoted to lieutenant commander and posted to National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ) in Ottawa. He was made Assistant Director of Intelligence and Plans〔 and was part of the RCN's negotiation team for acquiring four used destroyers from the Royal Navy. In 1937, DeWolf studied at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and then served on an exchange with a Royal Navy cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean Sea during the Spanish Civil War. 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「Harry DeWolf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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