David Luce

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Sir John David Luce , GCB , DSO & Bar , OBE (born January 23, 1906 in Halcombe St. Mary, Malmesbury , Wiltshire ; † January 6, 1971 in Bath , Somerset ) was a British naval officer in the Royal Navy , most recently as admiral 1963 to 1966 first Sea Lord (first Sea Lord) was.

Life

Training and uses as a naval officer

John David Luce was the second of four sons of Rear Admiral John Luce and his wife Mary Dorothea Tucker Luce. One of his younger brothers was William Henry Tucker Luce , who was governor of the colony of Aden between 1956 and 1960 and resident in the British protectorate of Bahrain from 1961 to 1966 . He resigned on 15 September 1919 at the age of thirteen years as a midshipman in the Royal Navy and was after the naval officer training at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth initially on 15 January 1924 Midshipman ( Midshipman ) transported. After serving at sea from May to September 1926 on the battleship HMS Iron Duke , he was promoted to lieutenant in the sea (sub-lieutenant) on January 30, 1927 . After a subsequent training for submarine crews at the Royal Naval College "HMS President" in Greenwich and in Portsmouth , he was transferred to the submarine HMS L23 on April 3, 1928 and there on October 16, 1928 to lieutenant captain (Lieutenant ) , whereupon he was transferred to the 6th Submarine Flotilla on October 4, 1929 as first officer on the submarine HMS H49 belonging to the 6th Submarine Flotilla . He then took place from 29 December 1929 to January 1930 use in the in the Mediterranean Fleet ( Mediterranean Fleet ) used battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth and following on 5 July 1932 to June 1933 in the reserve-submarine group Y in Portsmouth , which included the submarines HMS L6 , HMS L22 and HMS L52 . He was then from September 21, 1933 to November 1934 first officer on the submarine HMS Osiris belonging to the China Station and attended a submarine commanding course on the HMS Alecto in Portsmouth between April 29 and July 1935 .

Once concluded, Luce was born on August 10, 1935 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the sixth submarine flotilla belonging HMS H44 and on October 16, 1936 Lieutenant Commander ( Lieutenant Commander ) transported. He then completed a staff course at the Royal Naval College "HMS President" in Greenwich between January and July 1937 and was employed as an operations staff officer in the 4th Submarine Flotilla belonging to the China Station from January 1 to October 1938 . Then he was there between December 1938 and February 1939 first in command of the submarine HMS Regulus and from March 22, 1939 to April 1940, in command of the submarine HMS Rainbow .

Second World War

At the end of the Second World War , frigate captain David Luce acted between August 1944 and July 1945 as the first officer of the light cruiser HMS Swiftsure, which was part of the British Pacific Fleet .

During the Second World War Corvette Captain David Luce acted as the commander of the submarine HMS Cachalot between June 14, 1940 and February 1941 . For his outstanding services on various patrol trips, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on November 12, 1940 . He was also promoted to frigate captain (Commander) on December 31, 1940 during this employment . He was then from March to December 1941 officer in the planning department of the Admiralty and then planning officer of naval combat operations in the staff of the naval advisor at the headquarters for joint operations COHQ ( Combined Operations Headquarters ) . For his participation in Operation Jubilee , the landing operation of the Western Allies against the port of Dieppe in German-occupied northern France on August 19, 1942 , he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on October 2, 1942 . This was followed by various uses in the headquarters of Naval Commander Force “J” Landing Craft Base , the so-called HMS Vectris . There he was involved in the preparations for Operation Overlord and Operation Neptune , the landing of the Allies in Normandy from June 6 to August 25, 1944.

At the beginning of the landings, David Luce became Chief Staff Officer of the Naval Commander Eastern Task Force in the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces SHAEF ( Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ) in June 1944 and remained in this position until August 1944. For his services in Operation Neptune he was awarded a repeat clasp (bar) for the Distinguished Service Order with effect from November 14, 1944 . After he was between the 27th of August, 1944, and July 1945 First Officer of the Pacific Fleet (British Pacific Fleet) belonging light cruiser HMS Swiftsure .

Postwar period, Korean War and promotion to flag officer

Sea captain David Luce was from April 1952 to January 1953 in command of the light cruiser HMS Birmingham and was used with this in the Korean War .

After the end of World War II David Luce was on June 30, 1945 Captain (Captain) promoted and took between 1 December 1945 and April 1946 the post of assistants Ender chief of staff for operations and planning at the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet at the naval base HMS Tamar in Hong Kong . Subsequently, from September 26, 1946 to 1948, he was employed by the naval aviators ( Fleet Air Arm ) as commander of the RN Air Station "HMS Peregrine" in Ford and between July and December 1948 as the commander of the RN Air Station "HMS Daedalus" in Lee-on-the-Solent . He was then deputy director of the planning department in the Admiralty from December 8, 1948 to 1951 , and in command of the light cruiser HMS Liverpool from April 1951 to April 1952, before he was in command of the light cruiser HMS Birmingham from April 1952 to January 1953 . He was used with this in the Korean War and was mentioned for his services there on May 19, 1953 in the war report ( Mentioned in dispatches ) .

He then held the post of director of the Royal Naval Staff College "HMS President" in Greenwich between March 10, 1953 and July 1954, and then took over the post of Naval Secretary of the Admiralty from Rear Admiral Richard Onslow on August 23, 1954 , which he held until his replacement by Rear Admiral Alastair Ewing in August 1954. During this assignment he was also on January 7, 1955. Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) transported. During this time, during their state visits in October 1955, the President of Portugal, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, awarded him the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Avis (Ordem de Militar Avis) and, in 1956, of the King of Iraq Faisal II. The “Order of the Two Rivers” (Wisam Al Rafidain) third class.

Luce was from August 30, 1956 to July 28, 1958 Commander of the Flotillas of the Home Fleet (Flag Officer, Flotillas, Home Fleet ) with the light cruiser HMS Kenya as the flagship . It was on January 1, 1957 to Companion of the Order of the Bath collected (CB), and with effect from January 31 1958 Vice Admiral (Vice Admiral) transported. He then replaced Vice Admiral John Cuthbert on July 28, 1958 as Commander of the Naval Forces in Scotland and Northern Ireland (Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland) at the naval base HMS Cochrane in Donibristle House . He remained in this use until December 1959 and was then replaced by Vice Admiral Royston Wright . He was beaten on January 1, 1960 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and has since been named "Sir".

First Sea Lord and Admiral of the Fleet

On April 28, 1960 Vice Admiral Luce took over from Vice Admiral Gerald Gladstone the post of commander in chief of the Far Eastern Fleet (Commander-in-Chief, Far Eastern Fleet ) at the naval base "HMS Terror" in Sembawang in Singapore and had this post until his replacement by Vice-Admiral Desmond Dreyer on November 6, 1962. In this role, he was promoted to admiral on August 22, 1960 . He then became the first Commander-in-Chief of the newly created British armed forces in the Far East (Commander-in-Chief, Far East Command) in November 1962 and was also Military Advisor to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO ) until his replacement by Admiral Varyl Begg in March 1963 ).

Last Admiral Luce was born on August 6, 1963 successor to Admiral of the Fleet Caspar John as First Sea Lord (First Sea Lord) and at the same time as Chief of Naval Staff (Chief of the Naval Staff) . On June 8, 1963, he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). On March 15, 1966 he resigned together with the Minister of State for the Navy (Minister of State for the Navy) Christopher Mayhew from his offices as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff after the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his Defense Minister Denis Healey had decided , the stock of the British air Force ( RAF ) of carrier aircraft to shift towards land-based aircraft and the CAV-01 aircraft carrier to end program. At the same time he left active military service and retired, whereupon Admiral Varyl Begg was again his successor as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in March 1966. On January 3, 1969, he was also Knight of the Order of Saint John (KStJ).

Admiral Begg had been married to Mary Adelaide Norah Whitham since 1935 and had two sons. He died on January 6, 1971 at the Lansdown Nursing Home in Bath .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ British Colony Aden: Governors
  2. ^ British Protectorate Bahrain: Chief political residents
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  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33436, HMSO, London, November 6, 1928, p. 7212 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34333, HMSO, London, October 20, 1936, p. 6688 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34991, HMSO, London, November 12, 1940, p. 6549 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
  7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35729, HMSO, London, October 2, 1942, p. 4324 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
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  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37183, HMSO, London, July 17, 1945, p. 3689 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
  10. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 115
  11. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 246
  12. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 247
  13. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39854, HMSO, London, May 15, 1953, p. 2766 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  14. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 200
  15. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 12
  16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 40414, HMSO, London, February 22, 1955, p. 1097 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  17. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 168
  18. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40960, HMSO, London, December 28, 1956, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  19. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41382, HMSO, London, May 9, 1958, p. 2904 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  20. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 54
  21. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  22. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41909, HMSO, London, December 29, 1959, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  23. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 114
  24. ↑ London Gazette . No. 42159, HMSO, London, October 4, 1960, p. 6702 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  25. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 42
  26. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 2
  27. ^ First Sea Lords (rulers.org)
  28. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  29. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43010, HMSO, London, May 31, 1963, p. 4794 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  30. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43974, HMSO, London, May 6, 1966, p. 5448 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
  31. ^ The promised two new aircraft carriers
  32. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44757, HMSO, London, January 3, 1969, p. 129 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2018, English).
predecessor Office successor
Richard Onslow Naval Secretary
1954-1956 		Alastair Ewing
Sir John Cuthbert Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland
1958-1959 		Sir Royston Wright
Sir Gerald Gladstone Commander-in-Chief, Far Eastern Fleet
1960–1962 		Sir Desmond Dreyer
Item newly created Commander in Chief of the Far East Command
1962–1963 		Sir Varyl Begg
Sir Caspar John First sea lord
1963–1966 		Sir Varyl Begg
personal data
SURNAME Luce, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luce, John David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Admiral and First Sea Lord
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Halcombe St. Mary, Malmesbury , Wiltshire
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1971
Place of death Bath , Somerset