Alexander Robert Hammick

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Rear-Admiral Alexander Robert Hammick, R.N. (16 February, 1887 – 1969) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in Stoke, the son of Rear-Admiral Robert Frederick Hammick.

Hammick was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1908.[1]

When the war broke out, Hammick was appointed to gunnery officer in the battleship Prince George. He served in her until 19 October, 1915. A week later, he was admitted to Haslar Hospital, suffering from Bell's Palsy. At about the same time, he lost confidential books from the Devonport Gunnery School.[2]

Hammick was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December, 1916.[3]

In 1920, he a Webley pistol went missing from H.M.S. Canterbury, and Hammick bore some of the blame in the matter.[4]

Hammick was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1922.[5]

Hammick was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1929.[6]

World War II

Hammick was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 25 June, 1940 and placed on the Retired List the next day.[7]

He was reverted to the Retired List as medically unfit on 13 September, 1945.[8]

See Also

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Thomas B. Drew
Captain of H.M.S. Active
25 Aug, 1930[9] – Sep, 1931[10]
Succeeded by
Henry B. Rawlings
Preceded by
The Hon. Edmund R. Drummond
Captain of H.M.S. Curacoa
2 Jan, 1933[11] – Apr, 1933[12]
Succeeded by
Robert L. Burnett
Preceded by
Robert L. Burnett
Captain of H.M.S. Keppel
24 Apr, 1933[13][14] – 17 Dec, 1934[15]
Succeeded by
Harold T. Baillie-Grohman
Preceded by
Cecil R. E. W. Perryman
Captain (D), Eighth Destroyer Flotilla
24 Apr, 1933 – Oct, 1935
Succeeded by
Richard S. Benson
Preceded by
Harold T. Baillie-Grohman
Captain of H.M.S. Duncan
17 Dec, 1934[16][17] – 1934[18]
Succeeded by
Richard S. Benson
Preceded by
Edward N. Syfret
Captain of Devonport Gunnery School
30 Dec, 1935[19][20]c. Jun, 1938[21]
Succeeded by
Eustace Rotherham
Preceded by
H. Evelyn C. Blagrove
Captain of H.M.S. Sussex
16 Dec, 1938[22] – 6 Jun, 1940[23]
Succeeded by
Richard V. Symonds-Tayler

Footnotes

  1. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  2. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  3. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  4. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  5. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  6. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  7. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  8. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  9. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  10. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  11. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  12. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  13. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  14. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 250.
  15. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  16. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  17. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 3 Nov. 1934, p. 21.
  18. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  19. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  20. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 233.
  21. Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. Uboat.net page on the ship.