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Harrison-Wallace, Henry Steuart MacNaghten

Geboortedatum:
juli 1883 (Jamaica)
Overlijdensdatum:
24 juni 1963 (Schotland, Verenigd Koninkrijk)
Nationaliteit:
Britse

Biografie

Carrière:
Educated at H.M.S. Britannia, Dartmouth, and the Royal Naval College in Greenwich
Appointed Midshipman, July 1899;
Commissioned Sub-Lieutenant, 15.7.1902;
Lieutenant, 31.12.1904;
Lieutenant-Commander, 31.12.1912;
Served in H.M.S. Emperor of India from 26.3.1914;
Commander, 31.12.1916;
Served in the Light Cruiser H.M.S. Caledon from September 1917; Appointed to the Naval Intelligence Division, 10.7.1919;
Served as Commander of the Caledon during the Allied Intervention in North Russia, under the command of Rear Admiral Walter Cowan, and engaged the Bolsheviks off the Latvian coast at Windau, shelling them out of the town (Mentioned in Despatches);
Placed on Retired List, 1.1.1923;
Advanced Captain, 1.7.1928;
Served during the Second World War in H.M.S. Calliope as Extended Defence Officer, Tyne;
Served with the Norwegian Expeditionary Force, 1940 (D.S.O.); Captain, H.M.S. Quebec, 1941-42;
Headquarters Staff Combined Operations and Admiralty Naval Staff, 1942-44;
Took part in the Invasion of Normandy as a Captain of Landing Barges, June 1944.
Captain Harrison-Wallace reverted once more to the retired list, 1945, and died in Scotland in 1963.

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Periode:
Russische Burgeroorlog (1917-1922)
Eenheid:
H.M.S. Caledon (D53), Royal Navy
Toegekend op:
9 april 1920
Mentioned in Dispatches
Periode:
Tweede Wereldoorlog (1939-1945)
Rang:
Captain (Kapitein ter Zee)
Toegekend op:
25 juni 1940
Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
Periode:
Tweede Wereldoorlog (1939-1945)

Met "FRANCE AND GERMANY"-gesp.
Atlantic Star

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