Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper
Admiral SIR Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.V.O., Royal Navy (16 October, 1859 – 5 March, 1945) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Early Life & Career
On 18 November, 1912, Tupper hoisted his flag in the battleship Revenge as Rear-Admiral in the Home Fleets at Portsmouth, in succession to Arthur Y. Moggridge.[1] He did not, as he claimed in his memoirs, become "Rear-Admiral Second in Command of the Home Fleet."[2]
On 8 January, 1918 Tupper wrote to Roger Keyes, "As for myself I feel most depressed—entre nous—I hoped for 4.B.S. [Fourth Battle Squadron] but somehow it has gone to Browning."[3]
Post-war
On 1 April, 1919, Tupper succeeded Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly as Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland,[4] with the new title of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches. Of his two-year term at Queentown during the Irish War of Independence Tupper noted, "It was a very difficult two years, but the events of that period, and the breaking away of Ireland after I had left, are so painful to look back upon that I never feel disposed to talk about them."[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 19 November, 1912. Issue 40060, col A, pg. 15.
- ↑ Tupper. Reminiscences. pp. 196-197.
- ↑ Keyes Papers. I. p. 441.
- ↑ "Naval Command Changes" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 27 March, 1919. Issue 42059, col F, pg. 13.
- ↑ Tupper. Reminiscences. p. 278.
Bibliography
- "Admiral Sir Reginald Tupper" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 7 March, 1945. Issue 50085, col C, pg. 7.
- Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow, First Baron Keyes (1972). Halpern, Paul G.. ed. The Keyes Papers. Volume I: 1914-1918. London: Navy Records Society.
- Tupper, Admiral Sir Reginald (1929). Reminiscences. London: Jarrold & Sons.
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/39.
