Frederik Doveton Sturdee

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Doveton Sturdee after the sea battle in the Falkland Islands

Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet , GCB , KCMG , CVO (born June 9, 1859 in Lewisham , London , † May 7, 1925 in Camberley ) was a British admiral during the First World War .

Life

He joined in 1871 in the Royal Navy and rose up to the outbreak of World War I as Chief of War Staff of the Admiralty on.

On December 8, 1914, he and his association destroyed the German East Asia Squadron under Admiral Graf von Spee near the Falkland Islands , whereupon he was appointed Baronet of the Falkland Islands on January 19, 1916 . In the Battle of the Skagerrak , 1916, Sturdee commanded the 4th Division of the 4th Battleship Squadron from his flagship , HMS Benbow . In 1917 he became Admiral and in 1921 Admiral of the Fleet .

From his marriage to Marion Adela Andrews he left a son and heir, Rear Admiral Sir Lionel Arthur Doveton Sturdee, 2nd Baronet (1884-1970) and a daughter, Margaret Adela Sturdee (1891-1960), who was Admiral Cecil Minet Staveley (1874–1934) married and became the mother of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Staveley (1928–1997).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 29512, HMSO, London, March 17, 1916, p. 2932 ( PDF , English).

literature

  • Geoffrey Bennet: Coronel and the Falklands. Macmillan, New York NY 1962, (German edition: The sea battles of Coronel and Falkland and the sinking of the German cruiser squadron under Admiral Graf Spee (= Heyne books. 5697). Translated, supplemented with notes and an afterword by Reinhard K. Lochner. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01141-4 ).
  • Sturdee, Sir Frederick Charles Doveton . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 32 : Pacific Ocean Islands - Zuloaga . London 1922, p. 599 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

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SURNAME Sturdee, Frederik Doveton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturdee, Frederick Charles Doveton 1st Baronet; Sturdee, Doveton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Vice Admiral
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewisham
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1925
Place of death Camberley