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Buried at
  
Service/branch
  
Rank
  
Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Years of service
  
1904–1940

Born
  
14 March 1889Kensington, London (
1889-03-14
)

Commands held
  
HMS Malaya (1938–40)HMS Kent (1934–36)HMS Blanche (1931)HMS Ambuscade (1930, 1931)HMS Wolsey (1930–31)

Died
  
14 October 1940, Regent Street, London, United Kingdom

Place of burial
  
Kensal Green Cemetery, London, United Kingdom

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Rear Admiral Ion Beauchamp Butler Tower, DSC, SGM (14 March 1889 – 14 October 1940) was a British naval officer.

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Early life and naval career

Tower was the third son of Royal Navy Commander Francis Fitzpatrick Tower (1859–1944) and his wife Laura, daughter of Thomas Butler. He was educated at Harrow School and entered the Royal Navy through training on HMS Britannia.

He fought in the First World War, being decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross and the Russian Order of St Stanislas, 3rd Class with Swords. He was awarded the Sea Gallantry Medal for his part, as lieutenant commander aboard HMS Carlisle, in the rescue of survivors of the sinking of the Hong Moh in March 1921.

He married in 1923 Sophia Maud, daughter of Robert Donner of Bowden, Lacock, Wiltshire and had two children: one son, John Christopher, who was killed by enemy action in 1944 while serving as Supply Assistant in the Royal Navy, and a daughter Lavinia.

Tower remained in the navy in the interwar period, and was promoted rear admial in June 1940. While serving as Chief Naval Liaison Officer to General Sir Alan Brooke, the Commander-in-Chief of Home Forces, Tower was killed during an air raid on London on 14 October 1940 at age 51. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

References

Ion Tower Wikipedia


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