Philip Dumas

Philip Wylie Dumas , CB , CVO ( 1868 - 1948 ) was a British officer and diplomat ( naval attaché ).

Live and act

After attending school, Dumas entered the Royal Navy as a cadet on July 15, 1881 . After various ship commands, Dumas was sent to Berlin in February 1906 by the British government as a naval attaché , where he was responsible for maintaining the two states' marine relations. In 1908 Dumas was transferred to Holland , later to Denmark , as a naval attaché . Herbert Heath followed him at the Berlin post .

From 1912 to 1913 Dumas served as secretary of the Royal Commission on Oil Fuel, which was entrusted with preparing the conversion of the British Navy from coal to oil firing. He then commanded the HMS Roxburgh. At the beginning of World War I , Dumas was appointed Assistant Director of Torpedoes in the Admiralty, the British Ministry of the Navy. After performing this task until 1917, he commanded the HMS Agamemnon from 1917 to 1918. He reached the high point of his career with his appointment as admiral.

In his later years Dumas lived in Buckland near Reigate in Surrey .

Duma's estate, including his unpublished autobiography, is stored in the War Museum Department of Documents and the Churchill Archives Center at Cambridge University.

literature

• Paul G. Halpern: The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, 1915-1918 , 1987.
• Matthew S. Seligmann: "Challenging Britain's Sovereignty of the Seas. The Views of Captain Dumas, Naval Attaché 1906-1908", in Ders .: Spies in Uniform , 2006, pp. 187ff.