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Revision as of 09:52, 23 November 2019
Commander (retired) Francis Cuthbert Platt, D.S.O., R.N. (13 August, 1885 – 15 February, 1941) served in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Platt was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 July, 1907.
Platt was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 July, 1915.
Appointed as gunnery officer in Glory on 13 July, 1916.
On May 8, 1918, Platt's sweeping sloop Wallflower sank U 32 forty miles northwest of Malta in a convoy action.
Platt was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 June, 1927.
World War II
See Also
Naval Appointments | ||
Preceded by George M. Skinner |
Captain of H.M.S. Crocus 18 Aug, 1917 – 30 Oct, 1917 |
Succeeded by Richard W. U. Bayly |
Preceded by Guy R. Livingstone |
Captain of H.M.S. Wallflower 7 Nov, 1917[1] – 30 Jan, 1920 |
Succeeded by Harold A. Knight |
Preceded by Cosmo A. O. Douglas |
Captain of H.M.S. Dwarf 6 Jul, 1920 – 13 Dec, 1922 |
Succeeded by Stephen Phillimore |
Footnotes
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 941.