Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer)

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Sir Gordon Moore
Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore in 1916.jpg
Moore in 1916
Born2 February 1862 (1862-02-02)
Died2 April 1934 (1934-04-03) (aged 72)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankAdmiral
Commands held2nd Battlecruiser Squadron
9th Cruiser Squadron
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Admiral Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore KCB CVO (2 February 1862 – 2 April 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord.

Naval career[]

Moore joined the Royal Navy and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.[1] He was promoted to Captain 17 July 1901,[2] and later Rear-Admiral. He was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1907 and Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes in 1909.[1] He went on to be Third Sea Lord in 1912.[1] He served in World War I commanding the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron from 1914.[1]

As Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty's Second in Command at the Battle of Dogger Bank, he led the sinking of SMS Blücher in January 1915.[3] Heavily criticized for allowing the seriously-damaged SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger to escape together with the undamaged SMS Moltke, he was "quietly removed from the Grand Fleet and assigned to command (the 9th Cruiser Squadron) in the Canary Islands where the possibility of any appearance by German surface ships was remote".[4]

In 1917, he went on to be Controller of the Mechanical Warfare Department.[1] He retired in 1919.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Moore, Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  2. ^ "No. 27335". The London Gazette. 19 July 1901. p. 4779.
  3. ^ World War One By Priscilla Mary Roberts, p.585
  4. ^ Massie, Robert (1991). Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War. Random House Inc. p. 415. ISBN 978-0394528335.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Charles Briggs 		Third Sea Lord
1912–1914 		Succeeded by
Sir Frederick Tudor
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