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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 .
Military-Sea. Gender. Male. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound was born on the Isle of Wight to a lawyer. He joined the Royal Navy in 1891 and commanded the battleship HMS Colossus during the Battle of Jutland in WW1, sinking two German cruisers during that battle.
Sep 11, 2000 · 4.8 11 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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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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. Just an enormous brain.
Mar 2, 2023 · Great Contemporaries: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound. By ROBIN BRODHURST. | March 2, 2023. Admiral Pound and Churchill aboard HMT Queen Mary for a visit to the United States, May 1943. (Photo by Ltd. H.W. Tomlin RN, Imperial War Museum, public domain) Robin Brodhurst: In Memoriam. (Pangbournian Portal)
Jul 14, 2008 · Sir Dudley Pound was the First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy from early in 1939 until just before his death in October 1943. Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound was born on the Isle of Wight on 29 August 1877.
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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