Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch Royal Navy Name Clement Moody Rank Admiral | Died 1960 Awards Order of the Bath | |
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Commands held HMS Curacoa
HMS Eagle
East Indies Station
South Atlantic Station Battles/wars World War I
World War II | ||
Battles and wars World War I, World War II | ||
Our Forgotten Past - Royal Engineers 1981
Admiral Sir Clement Moody KCB (1891–1960) was a Royal Navy who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
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Naval career
Moody was appointed a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1911. He served in World War I and in 1935 was given command of HMS Curacoa. He commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle from 1937.
He served in World War II as Director of the Naval Air Division and then as Second-in-Command of Naval Air Stations in 1941. He was made Second-in-Command of Aircraft Carriers in Home Waters in 1943; in April 1944 he took part in Operation Cockpit, a bombing raid on Japanese port and oil facilities on Sabang Island (off the northern tip of Sumatra).
He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1945. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station in 1946; he retired in 1948.