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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, GCB, OM, GCVO (29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943) was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jutland with notable success, contributing to the sinking of the German cruiser Wiesbaden .
Sep 11, 2000 · Kindle Edition. Dudley Pound served for longer on the Chiefs of Staff Committee in wartime than any other serviceman in either of the two World Wars. He was the professional head of the Royal Navy from July 1939 until his resignation, shortly before his death, in August 1943.
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Instead of saving the convoy from disaster, Admiral Pound had doomed the merchant ships to destruction. Only 11 would make it safely to port, the rest sunk by German aircraft and u-boats. It was the biggest loss to a British convoy in the Second World War. So what happened? Why did Dudley Pound give the order?
Feb 6, 2021 · By James Brun. IN LEWIS Gilbert’s 1960 film, Sink the Bismarck!, the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, remarks on the type of commander needed to win the Battle of the Atlantic: “I want a man who’s cold. I’d like a man with no heart at all, no soul.
Dec 16, 2017 · Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound “My trusted naval friend.” 1 Churchill inherited Pound as First Sea Lord upon taking office as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1939, but quickly grew to like and trust the rather dour old admiral who lacked charisma.
Mar 2, 2023 · 3 Paul Halpern, ed., “Dudley Pound in the Grand Fleet, 1914-15,” in The Naval Miscellany, vol. VI (Navy Records Society, 2003), 410. 4 Churchill was created PC in 1907. There were senior PCs, but they were not Conservatives, such as David Lloyd George in 1905. 5 See William James, Admiral Sir William Fisher (London: Macmillan, 1943).
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound (1877-1943) A three-quarter-length portrait to the right, showing Pound in his admiral of the fleet undress uniform, wearing his cap; his hands are in his jacket pockets and he stands against a background of sea with two ‘King George V’ class battleships steaming from left to right.
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