Name John Glossop Rank Vice Admiral | Years of service 1884–1921 | |
Commands held HMAS Sydney (1913–17)HMS Prometheus (1908–11)HMS Lizard (1902–04) | ||
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Vice Admiral John Collings Taswell Glossop, (23 October 1871 – 23 December 1934) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for captaining the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney during the Battle of Cocos in which the German cruiser SMS Emden was sunk.
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Naval career
Glossop joined the Royal Navy. By then a Lieutenant, he was on 21 May 1902 posted to the screw gunboat HMS Lizard, serving at the Australia Station.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1915 New Year Honours.
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