Edmund Henry Jellicoe
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Lieutenant Edmund Henry Jellicoe (10 September, 1875 – 30 December, 1904) served in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Jellicoe was the much younger brother to John Rushworth Jellicoe (b. 1859).
Edmund Jellicoe was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 September, 1898.
Shortly after being appointed in command of a destroyer on the China Station, he was found in his cabin with a gunshot wound to the head.
A Court of Inquiry determined that he had killed himself while suffering from a mental debility.
See Also
| Naval Appointments | ||
| Preceded by Harry L. Wells |
Captain of H.M.S. Whiting 11 Oct, 1904[1] – 30 Dec, 1904 |
Succeeded by George H. H. Holden |
Footnotes
- ↑ Jellicoe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. p. 119/238.
