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Line 1: {{Short description\|Royal Navy vice-admiral}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=~~April~~August ~~2012~~2020}} {{Infobox military person \|name= Sir Dymock Watson \|birth_date=5 April 1904<ref>{{cite book \|title=Who's Who of Southern Africa \|date=1959 \|publisher=Ken Donaldson (Pty.) Limited \|page=666 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8h0UAAAAIAAJ ~~\|accessdate=5 June 2019~~ \|language=en}}</ref> \|death_date=3 February 1988 (aged 84) \|birth_place= [[Farnham]], Surrey Line 22 ⟶ 23: ==Naval career== Watson joined the [[Royal Navy]] in 1918.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WATSON5.shtml Sir Robert Dymock Watson] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He served in [[World War II]] as Assistant Director of Plans on the Joint Planning Staff from 1944.<ref name=lh/> After the War he was appointed to the [[1st Destroyer Flotilla]] in the [[Mediterranean Fleet]] and then, in 1950, became Director of Plans at the [[British Admiralty\|Admiralty]].<ref name=lh/> He went on to be [[Commanding Officer]] of the [[aircraft carrier]] {{HMS\|Illustrious\|87\|6}} in 1953 and Flag Officer, Flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1954.<ref name=lh/> He was made [[Fourth Sea Lord]] and Chief of Supplies and Transport in 1955 and [[South Atlantic Station\|Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station]] in 1958.<ref name=lh/> He made an official visit to [[Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal\|Ladysmith]]<ref>[http://www.naval-review.co.uk/issues/1959-4.pdf Naval Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, October, 1959, p. 473]</ref> before retiring in 1961.<ref name=lh/> He lived at Trebinshwyn in [[Brecon]].<ref>[http://www.william1.co.uk/t43.htm Tudor 43]</ref> ==Personal life== His grandson is the actor and comedian [[Humphrey Ker]], who based his 2011 [[Edinburgh Fringe]] show ''Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!'' on Watson's exploits in the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Humphrey Ker Is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher! Upstairs at the Three and Ten, Brighton, June 16 \|url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/stage/9085468.humphrey-ker-is-dymock-watson-nazi-smasher-upstairs-at-the-three-and-ten-brighton-june-16/ \|website=[[The Argus (Brighton)\|The Argus]] \|access-date=27 November 2021}}</ref> ==References== Line 41 ⟶ 45: [[Category:1904 births]] [[Category:1988 deaths]] [[Category:Royal Navy ~~admirals~~officers of World War II]] [[Category:Military personnel from Surrey]] [[Category:Royal Navy vice admirals]] [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath]] [[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]