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'''Ion Beauchamp Butler Tower''', ( – ) served in the [[Royal Navy]].
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{{RearRN}} '''Ion Beauchamp Butler Tower''', R.N. (c. 1889 – October, 1940) served in the [[Royal Navy]].
  
 
==Life & Career==
 
==Life & Career==
 
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Tower was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on December, 1922.
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Tower was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 31 December, 1929.
 
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He served as Gunnery Officer in [[H.M.S. Redoubtable (1892)|''Redoubtable'']] and  [[H.M.A.S. Australia (1911)|''Australia'']] in 1918.
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Tower served as Gunnery Officer in [[H.M.S. Redoubtable (1892)|''Redoubtable'']] and  [[H.M.A.S. Australia (1911)|''Australia'']] in 1918.
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Tower died in an air raid in World War II.
  
 
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Revision as of 21:33, 16 August 2017

Rear-Admiral Ion Beauchamp Butler Tower, R.N. (c. 1889 – October, 1940) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Tower served as Gunnery Officer in Redoubtable and Australia in 1918.

Tower died in an air raid in World War II.

See Also

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
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Captain of H.M.S. Blanche
28 Apr, 1931[1]
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
Algernon U. Willis
Captain of H.M.S. Kent
May, 1934[2] – Jan, 1937[3]
Succeeded by
Leslie H. Ashmore
Preceded by
Frederick A. Buckley
Captain of H.M.S. Malaya
Dec, 1938[4] – 25 May, 1940[5]
Succeeded by
Arthur F. E. Palliser

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 218.
  2. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  3. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  4. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  5. Superseded that day. Palliser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/290. f. 663.