Allegiance United Kingdom Name Desmond McCarthy Children Rachel MacCarthy Battles/wars World War II Spouse Mary MacCarthy (m. 1906) | Rank Admiral Died June 7, 1952, Cambridge Service/branch Royal Navy Role Journalist | |
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Commands held HMS Ajax
HMS Anson
South Atlantic Station Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order Grandchildren Jonathan Cecil, Hugh Peniston Cecil, Alice Laura Cecil Books Court Theatre - 1904‑1907, Leslie Stephen, Remnants, Charles Paine Pauli and Sam, Shaw's plays in review Similar People Clive Bell, Adrian Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Leonard Woolf | ||
Admiral Sir (Edward) Desmond (Bewley) McCarthy KCB DSO (1893–1966) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station.
Naval career
Promoted to Captain in 1935, McCarthy served in World War II commanding HMS Ajax from 1940 and HMS Anson from 1943, taking part in Operation Tungsten against the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944, and then becoming Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1944. After the War he was appointed Rear Admiral, Destroyers in the Mediterranean Fleet and then Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station from 1948. He retired in 1950.
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