John Crombie

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John Crombie
Birth nameJohn Harvey Forbes Crombie
Born16 February 1900[1]
Edinburgh, Scotland[2]
Died31 August 1972 (aged 72)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1913–1953
RankRear Admiral
Commands heldHMS Vengeance
Royal Navy Signal School
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Rear Admiral John Harvey Forbes Crombie CB DSO (16 February 1900 – 31 August 1972) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Naval career[]

Crombie joined the Royal Navy in 1913.[3] He served in World War I in the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth and then in the destroyer HMS Oak.[3] He also served in World War II as Commanding Officer of the minesweeper HMS Bramble,[4] as Senior Officer for Minesweepers in the White Sea and then as Director of Minesweeping at the Admiralty from 1943.[3] After the War he became Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance before taking over command of the Royal Navy Signal School in 1948.[3] He became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1951 and retired in 1953.[5]

Family[]

He married Rosamund, daughter of Brigadier-General Rodney Style.[6] Their daughter Julia Rosamond Crombie (b. August 1947) married, in 1974, John Algernon Henry Trotter of Mordington House, Berwickshire.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Catalogue description: Crombie, John Harvey Forbes". The National Archives (United Kingdom). January 1913. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  2. ^ 1901 Scotland Census
  3. ^ a b c d Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  4. ^ HMS Bramble Crew
  5. ^ Listing compiled by historian Colin Mackie Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Roots.web
  7. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain - The Kingdom in Scotland 19th edition, edited by Peter Beauclerk Dewar, 2001, ISBN 0-9711966-0-5, p.1338.
Military offices
Preceded by Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland
1951–1953 		Succeeded by
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