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Admiral Sir Reginald Guy Hannam Henderson GCB〔(accessed 18 Feb 2012 ''Who was Who'' ) 〕 (1881–1939) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy. ==Naval career== Henderson was confirmed as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1902, and posted to the HMS ''Syren'' in April that year. She took part in the Naval Mission to Greece in 1913.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in World War I as commanding officer of the battleship HMS ''Erin'' in 1914〔 and took part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.〔(Battle of Jutland )〕 In 1917, as a commander involved in anti-submarine warfare, he quietly opposed the Admiralty’s official position that the volume of merchant shipping was too great to be protected by warships. Henderson demonstrated that the vast majority of the 2,500 ships completing voyages each week were in fact coastal voyages, and only between 120 and 140 ocean-going. Hankey’s biographer Stephen Roskill suggested that Henderson’s contribution to the introduction of convoys (in particular to Hankey's memorandum of February 1917) was not acknowledged on paper at the time in order to avoid imperilling the younger officer’s career.〔Grigg 2002, p50-1〕 After the War he became Chief Staff Officer to the Commander-in-Chief, China Station and then, in 1923, joined the staff of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich.〔 Henderson later promoted the Fleet Air Arm and the construction of aircraft carriers.〔 He was given command of the aircraft carrier in 1926 and became Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1928.〔 He was appointed Rear Admiral commanding aircraft carriers in 1931 and Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1934 before his death in 1939.〔 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「Reginald Henderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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