Dymock Watson: Difference between revisions

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 [[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/>