Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral (Royal Navy)

Vice admiral is a flag officer rank of the British Royal Navy. It equates to the NATO rank code OF-8 and is immediately superior to rear admiral and is subordinate to the full admiral rank.The Royal Navy has had vice admirals since at least the 16th century...

 Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge KCB

Order of the Bath

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 DSO

Distinguished Service Order

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 & Bar

Medal bar

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 (1 February 1895 – 29 September 1949) was a Royal navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to become Fifth Sea Lord

Fifth Sea Lord

The Fifth Sea Lord was formerly one of the Naval Lords and members of the Board of Admiralty that controlled the Royal Navy.-History:In 1805, for the first time, specific functions were assigned to each of the 'Naval' Lords, who were described as 'Professional' Lords, leaving to the 'Civil' Lords...

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Naval career

Born the son of Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge

Ernest Troubridge

Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge KCMG, MVO was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the First World War, later rising to the rank of admiral....

, Troubridge joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1908. He served in World War I

World War I

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 and in 1936 became Naval Attaché in Berlin

Berlin

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. He also served in World War II

World War II

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 initially as Commanding Officer

Commanding officer

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 of the aircraft carrier HMS Furious

HMS Furious (47)

HMS Furious was a modified cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Lord John Fisher, they were very lightly armoured and armed with only a few heavy guns. Furious was modified while...

 carrying much needed sugar back to Britain in July 1940 and then making a number of air strikes on shipping in Norwegian waters and on the seaplane base at Tromsø

Tromsø

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 through October 1940. He was given command of the battleship

Battleship

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 HMS Nelson in June 1941 and then the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable in January 1942. In 1943 he was appointed Rear Admiral Combined Operations and Flag Officer Commanding Overseas Assault Forces and in June 1944 he led the Invasion and Capture of Elba

Invasion of Elba

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After the war he was appointed Fifth Sea Lord

Fifth Sea Lord

The Fifth Sea Lord was formerly one of the Naval Lords and members of the Board of Admiralty that controlled the Royal Navy.-History:In 1805, for the first time, specific functions were assigned to each of the 'Naval' Lords, who were described as 'Professional' Lords, leaving to the 'Civil' Lords...

 and then, from 1946, Flag Officer, Air (Home). His last appointment was as Flag Officer and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet

Mediterranean Fleet

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in 1948.