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==Life & Career==
 
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After serving twnety months aboard the {{UK-Hood|f=t}}, Wise was appointed to the {{UK-Tiger|f=t}} on 17 May 1929.  
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After serving twenty months aboard the {{UK-Hood|f=t}}, Wise was appointed to the {{UK-Tiger|f=t}} on 17 May 1929.  
  
 
He was promoted to the rank of {{SubRN}} on 16 January, 1931.  On 3 March, he was sent to Haslar Hospital with acute appendicitis.  He was declared fit on 10 April.  On 8 July 1931, he declared that he wanted to serve in the [[Fleet Air Arm]].
 
He was promoted to the rank of {{SubRN}} on 16 January, 1931.  On 3 March, he was sent to Haslar Hospital with acute appendicitis.  He was declared fit on 10 April.  On 8 July 1931, he declared that he wanted to serve in the [[Fleet Air Arm]].

Revision as of 11:19, 8 September 2020

Lieutenant Basil James Carlisle Wise, (4 January, 1910 – 8 June, 1940) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

After serving twenty months aboard the battlecruiser Hood, Wise was appointed to the battlecruiser Tiger on 17 May 1929.

He was promoted to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant on 16 January, 1931. On 3 March, he was sent to Haslar Hospital with acute appendicitis. He was declared fit on 10 April. On 8 July 1931, he declared that he wanted to serve in the Fleet Air Arm.

Sadly, his service records are like many of his contemporaries, petering out in 1931 in an apparent massive loss of such material from those troves which eventually found a home at The National Archives.

Wise was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 16 May, 1933.[1]

He was awarded the Robert Roxburgh Memorial Prize for being the Naval Cadet who obtained the highest place in the grand aggregate of marks in the Passing Out Examination at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He was also awarded the Henry Leigh Carslake Prize for an essay submitted as a Naval Observer for the Fleet Air Arm.

Wise was appointed to the aircraft carrier Argus on 28 December, 1938.[2]

He died at age 30 when Glorious was sunk on 8 June, 1940.[3]

See Also

Bibliography

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 88.
  2. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 256.
  3. "Deaths." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jun 07, 1941; pg. 1; Issue 48946.