Ernest Jerome Fitzpatrick Tisdall

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Commander (retired) Ernest Jerome Fitzpatrick Tisdall, (5 August, 1884 – 10 January, 1931) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born at 49 Moscow Drive in Liverpool, when Tisdall joined the navy with the May 1899 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia, his mother was listed as his guardian.[1]

Tisdall was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 June, 1906.[2]

Tisdall was appointed to the destroyer Exmouth for navigating duties on 20 April, 1914. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 June, 1914, he served in Exmouth until being appointed to the battleship Hercules, additional, for assistant navigation duties in the Fourth Battle Squadron in 1917. In February 1918 he was appointed to the dreadnought Bellerophon as navigator.[3]

Tisdall was placed on the Retired List at his own request with the rank of Commander on 15 February, 1927.[4]

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Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Thomas H. Powis
Captain of H.M. T.B. 42
19 Mar, 1906[5][6] – 1 Aug, 1906[7]
Succeeded by
Wilfrid W. Hunt
Preceded by
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Assistant King's Harbour Master, Malta
27 Jan, 1920[8] – 27 Jan, 1922[9][10]
Succeeded by
Maurice P. B. Portman

Footnotes

  1. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  2. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  3. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  4. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  5. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  6. The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 399.
  7. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  8. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  9. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/164. f. 84.
  10. "Mediterranean Changes." The Times (London, England), Thursday, January 19, 1922, Issue 42933, p.12.