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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 – 6 Jun, 1940 |
Succeeded by Richard V. Symonds-Tayler |
Footnotes
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 250.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 3 Nov. 1934, p. 21.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 233.
- ↑ Hammick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/311. f. ?, 194.