Oswald Moreton Frewen

Commander (retired) Oswald Moreton Frewen, R.N. (11 January, 18887 – ) served in the Royal Navy.

Despite what he termed his own "juniority", his sympathy for John Jellicoe's situation in the mushrooming controversy over the Battle of Jutland would place Frewen in a position to exchange letters and information on the proponents of the Naval Staff Appreciation and other documentary efforts he regarded as manifestly unfair.

Life & Career

Born in Sussex the son of M. Frewen, Esq., J.P., Frewen would gain three and a half months on passing out of the training ship Britannia on 15 September, 1903.

He'd be appointed to Hannibal, Prince George and Bulwark until December, 1906. In July 1907, he'd receive a temporary appointment in the first-class torpedo boat T.B. 4, returning to her on loan for a cruise in the early summer of 1908. He'd spend a half year further in the armoured cruiser Roxburgh before leaving on 1 February, 1909 to seek qualification in navigating duties at Dryad, obtaining them on 11 June with 1834 of 2500 marks. He'd take his new credentials off to a series of ships, starting with Magnificent and then the new battlecruiser Invincible as assistant navigator, in mid 1909.

Great War

Frewen served as navigating officer in Lookout from 1 August, 1914 to 15 March, 1915 and then to the light cruiser Comus, where he would remain until 9 January, 1917. An appointment to Bacchante that began on 4 February, 1917 was abbreviated when he was invalided in August 1918. At war's end, he'd be placed in charge of a C. & M. Party aboard the Minotaur.

World War II

Frewen worked in Scapa Flow as Senior Naval Officer and King's Harbour Master, Scapa, based at Lyness at the shore base H.M.S. Proserpine.

See Also

• Service Records
• Frewen Letter to Evan-Thomas, 22 February, 1927
• Jellicoe Letter to Frewen, 12 February, 1920
• Harper Letter to Frewen, 23 December, 1944

Footnotes

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