Admiral Sir Gordon (Henry Wilson) Moore KCB

Order of the Bath

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 CVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (2 February 1862 – 2 April 1934) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord

Third Sea Lord

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Naval career

Moore joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. He was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord

First Sea Lord

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 in 1907 and Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes in 1909. He went on to be Third Sea Lord

Third Sea Lord

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 in 1912. He served in World War I

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 commanding the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron

2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (United Kingdom)

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 from 1914 and then seeing action at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914 and then as Admiral Lord Beatty

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

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's Second in Command at the Battle of Dogger Bank

Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)

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 in which he led the sinking of SMS Blücher

SMS Blücher

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in January 1915. He commanded the 9th Cruiser Squadron from February 1915 and went on to be Controller of the Mechanical Warfare Department in 1917. He retired in 1919.