Barry Domvile
Sir Barry Edward Domvile KBE CB CMG ( September 5, 1878 - August 13, 1971 ) was a British admiral .
Barry Domvile was the eldest son of the British Admiral Sir Compton Domvile. He joined the Royal Navy in 1892 and completed his training on the HMS Britannia. In 1898 he was promoted to lieutenant . He had previously won the Beaufort Testimonial, the Ryder Prize and the Goodenough Gold Medal, each of which is awarded for outstanding performance in the course of training. In 1906 he also won the gold medal of the Royal United Service Institution . In 1909 he was promoted to corvette captain. Before the outbreak of World War I , he was deputy secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defense from 1912 to 1914 . During the war he commanded various ships.
In 1916 he was promoted to sea captain . In the same year he married Alexandrine von der Heydt, a great-great-niece of the banker and Prussian minister August von der Heydt . The marriage had three children. In 1917 Domvile was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George .
From 1920 to 1922 he was director of the planning department of the Admiralty , from 1922 to 1925 as commodore 2nd class chief of staff of the Mediterranean Fleet and from 1925 to 1926 commander of the HMS Royal Sovereign . In 1922 he was appointed Companion of the Bath Order. In 1927 Domvile was promoted to Rear Admiral and director of the Naval Intelligence Division. In 1930 he was promoted to Vice Admiral and Commander of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet. From 1932 to 1934 Domvile was President of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and Commanding Vice Admiral of War College. In 1934 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and retired in 1936 and promoted to Admiral .
Domvile visited Germany in 1935 and was impressed by many aspects of the National Socialist regime. The following year he took part in the Nuremberg Rally as a guest of the German ambassador in London, Joachim von Ribbentrop . He then became a board member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and founded the association The Link . Although The Link was primarily active as a cultural organization, its Anglo-German Review magazine clearly spread National Socialist ideas. The organization, which at times had around 4,300 members, was therefore monitored by the English Abwehr and banned shortly after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Domvile was imprisoned in Brixton from early July 1940 to late July 1943 . In his books published after the war, Domvile also clearly represented anti-Semitic views and developed a Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory.
Works
- By and Large. 1936 (autobiography)
- Look to Your Moat. 1937
- From Admiral to Cabin Boy. 1947, ISBN 0-89562-099-5
- Look to Your Moat (A history of British naval and merchant seamen)
- The Great Taboo: Freemasonry
- Straight from the Jew's Mouth
- Truth about Anti-Semitism
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Domvile, Barry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Domvile, Barry Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1878 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1971 |