H. M. Denham (1897–1993)
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About the Author
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(eng) Do not confuse this author with his father, Henry Mangles Denham, 1800-1887.
Image credit: Henry Mangles Denham, lithograph by Charles Baugniet, 1849. Wikimedia Commons.
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Denham, Henry Mangles
- Data de nascimento
- 1897-09-09
- Data de falecimento
- 1993-07-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth
- Ocupações
- naval officer
travel writer - Organizações
- Royal Navy
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of St Michael and St George (Companion, 1945)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- He served as a Midshipman in the battleship HMS Agamemnon, 1914-15, and later the destroyer HMS Racoon, and saw action during the Dardanelles campaign, 1915. He was sent by the Admiralty on a year's course at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1919. He served in the cruiser HMS Renown, 1920, during the Prince of Wales' trip to Australia and New Zealand; the Rhine flotilla, commanding a small armed motor launch; and the battleship HMS Centurion in the Mediterranean. He spent a brief period in Austria in order to learn German. He was Divisional Officer in the boys' training ship HMS Impregnable at Devonport, 1924-6, and then Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Osmond Brock at Portsmouth. From 1927 he spent five years in the Mediterranean in HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Warsprite. He was a student at the Staff College, 1935, promoted Commander, and commanded HMS Penelope, 1936-9. He joined Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty, 1939, where he created an Information Section. He was appointed Naval Attaché in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1940, but returned to London later that year when the Germans occupied Denmark. He was then posted as Naval Attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, 1940. He alerted the Admiralty to the movement of the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen into the Atlantic in May 1941. He retired from the Navy in 1947.
He was a keen sailor and after his retirement he pursued a career as a travel writer, producing a series of sea guides. - Nota de desambiguação
- Do not confuse this author with his father, Henry Mangles Denham, 1800-1887.
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