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Henry McCall : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry McCall
Admiral Sir Henry (William Urquhart) McCall KCVO KBE CB DSO (1903-1980) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet. ==Naval career== McCall joined the Royal Navy as midshipman in the cruiser HMS ''Hyacinth'' at the Cape of Good Hope in 1908.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in World War I as sub-lieutenant in the steamship HMS ''Daffodil'' from 1915, as Executive Officer in the destroyer HMS ''Nepean'' in the Grand Fleet from 1916 and as Executive Officer in the destroyer HMS ''Westcott'' in the Grand Fleet from 1918.〔 He was present at the Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919.〔(Imperial War Museum )〕 He became commanding officer of the destroyer HMS ''Achates'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1932 and naval attaché at Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1938.〔 He served in World War II as commanding officer of the cruiser HMS ''Dido'' from 1940, as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Percy Noble who was Head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington D. C. from 1943 and as commanding officer of the battleship in South East Asia in 1944.〔 He became Senior British Naval Officer in the Middle East in 1946, Flag Officer, Destroyers in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1949 and Vice Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet 1950 before retiring in 1953.〔
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