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Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Gretton & Two Bars, (27 August 1912 – 11 November 1992) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War, and was a successful convoy escort commander. He eventually rose to become Fifth Sea Lord and retired as a vice admiral before entering university life as a bursar and academic. ==Early Life and career== Gretton was born on 27 August 1912,〔 in Farnham, Surrey, the son of a British Army officer, Gretton joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1930 and attended Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. His ambition was to be general seaman officer, a 'salt horse', and serve in destroyers. After graduating he served in various appointments, as midshipman and sub-lieutenant, rising to lieutenant in 1934. In that year he learned to fly, serving in ''Courageous''. In 1936 Gretton was with HMS ''Durban'' in the Mediterranean and saw action during the Abyssinia crisis and the Spanish Civil War. Also in 1936 during the Arab rebellion in Palestine, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross while leading a landing party in Haifa. In 1939 he attended an anti-submarine course at Portland and, on the outbreak of the Second World War, was assigned to HMS ''Vega'' as first lieutenant. 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「Peter Gretton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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