| 词条 | Bernard Rawlings (Royal Navy officer) |
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|name= Sir Bernard Rawlings |image= Vice Admiral Rawlings WWII IWM A 28075.jpg |image_size= |alt= |caption= Vice Admiral Rawlings during the Second World War |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|1889|05|21|df=yes}} |birth_place= St Erth, Cornwall, England |death_date= {{death date and age|1962|9|30|1889|5|21|df=yes}} |death_place= Bodmin, Cornwall, England |placeofburial= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Navy |serviceyears= 1904–1946 |rank= Admiral |servicenumber= |unit= |commands= Eastern Mediterranean (1943–44) West Africa Station (1943) Force B (1941) 7th Cruiser Squadron (1941) 1st Battle Squadron (1940–41, 1944–45) {{HMS|Valiant|1914|6}} (1939–40) {{HMS|Delhi|D47|6}} (1932–34) {{HMS|Curacoa|D41|6}} (1932) {{HMS|Active|H14|6}} (1931–32) |battles= First World War Second World War |awards= Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Mentioned in Despatches (2) Legion of Merit (United States) Order of George I (Greece) War Cross (Greece) |relations= |laterwork= }} Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Hughes Rawlings, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|GBE|KCB}} (21 May 1889 – 30 September 1962) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean during the Second World War. Naval careerRawlings was born in St Erth, Cornwall, England, on 21 May 1889.[1] Following education at Stubbington House School, Rawlings joined the Royal Navy in 1904 and served in the First World War.[2] After the war he worked for the Foreign Office and undertook Military Missions in Poland.[2] He then commanded the destroyer {{HMS|Active|H14|6}} and then the cruisers {{HMS|Curacoa|D41|6}} and {{HMS|Delhi|D47|6}} before becoming Naval Attaché in Tokyo in 1936.[2] Rawlings served in the Second World War, initially commanding the battleship {{HMS|Valiant|1914|6}}, then commanding the 1st Battle Squadron from 1940 before commanding the 7th Cruiser Squadron from 1941 and becoming Assistant Chief of Naval Staff in 1942.[2] He became Flag Officer, West Africa in 1943 and Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean in 1943.[2] He went on to be second-in-command of the British Pacific Fleet with his flag in {{HMS|King George V|41|6}}.[3] He commanded British Task Force 57 in the Pacific from 1944 through the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945,[4] and retired in 1946.[2] Rawlings died in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, on 30 September 1962.[1] References1. ^1 uboat.net Sir Henry Bernard Rawlings OBE, RN {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{s-bef|before=Sir Algernon Willis}}{{s-ttl|title=Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean2. ^1 2 3 4 5 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 3. ^National Maritime Museum {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901100021/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/research-guides/the-royal-navy/research-guide-b9-the-royal-navy-hms-king-george-v |date=1 September 2010 }} 4. ^{{cite web |last=Stevens |first=Mike |date=27 March 2005 |title=What my Dad Did for Us in the War |work=WW2 People's War |publisher=BBC |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/66/a3834966.shtml}} (formerly Commander-in-Chief, Levant)|years=1943–1944}}{{s-non|reason=Post disbanded}}{{end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlings, Bernard}} 11 : 1889 births|1962 deaths|Foreign recipients of the Legion of Merit|Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire|People educated at Stubbington House School|People from St Erth|Recipients of the Order of George I|Recipients of the War Cross (Greece)|Royal Navy admirals of World War II|Royal Navy personnel of World War I |
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