Name Hugh Marrack Died 1972 | Education Blundell's School | |
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Rear Admiral Hugh Richard Marrack, CBE, DSC (5 July 1888 – 12 February 1972) was a submarine specialist in the Royal Navy who commanded both the Portland and China Submarine flotillas and was Commodore Superintendent, Gibraltar, 1943–45. Marrack later became an ADC to King George VI.
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Early life
Hugh Richard Marrack was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at HMS Britannia.
Service biography
Marrack’s appointments included:
Marrack married Christine Banbury Pilkington (née Hallett) at the Old Parish Church in Upper Dovercourt on 7 July 1917. Christine Pilkington was the widow of Lieutenant George Pilkington who died when HM Submarine C31 was lost on 7 January 1915. Marrack was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1943. He retired as a Rear admiral and died in the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar.
Papers
The Imperial War Museum in London holds the papers of Rear Admiral Hugh Marrack 1932-1937 (ref: 72/52/1), including account of the seizure of the Chinese quarter of Shanghai by the Chinese Nationalist Army led by Gen Chiang Kai-shek, Apr 1927 (written 1932); account of service as Commanding Officer, HMS CARLISLE, Africa Station 1934-1937; account of visit of HMS CARLISLE to Tristan de Cunha 1937; two files of papers relating to submarines.