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Rear Admiral Edward Findlay "Teddy" Gueritz, (8 September 1919 – 21 December 2008) was a long-serving Royal Navy officer. From D-Day, 6 June 1944, he served as beachmaster on Sword Beach, organising the flow of men and materiel into the beachhead, including 30,000 troops on the first day. 19 days later he was severely wounded and evacuated to the United Kingdom where he required life-saving surgery. He had previously served in a similar role during Operation Ironclad, which captured Madagascar in 1942. He retired from the navy in 1973, and became an academic and author. ==Early life and family== Gueritz was born on 8 September 1919. He was educated at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire, entering as an exhibitioner in 1933. He was the son of Elton Laurence Gueritz, an officer of the Colonial Service〔 〕 and Eleanor Dixon Valentine Gueritz (née Findlay). He had three siblings, an elder brother and two older sisters. His brother, John Elton Fortescue Gueritz (born 1911), was an officer of the British Indian Army, subsequently working for the British Council in Tehran, and later became Secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association in the United Kingdom. His sister Lucy Valentine Gueritz (born 1915) married an Indian Army officer, Henry Gerard Burton.〔 〕 His other sister, Eleanor Elton Gueritz (born 1916) served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War and married another Indian Army officer, William Richard Feaver. 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「Teddy Gueritz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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