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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Rank
  
Vice admiral

Service/branch
  

Died
  
August 4, 1957

Name
  
Lumley Lyster

Commands held
  
HMS Danae5th Destroyer FlotillaHMS Glorious

Battles/wars
  
World War IWorld War II

Awards
  
Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order

Battles and wars
  
World War I, World War II

Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Lumley St George Lyster (27 April 1888 – 4 August 1957) was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War.

Lyster served in World War I and fought at Gallipoli in 1915. He was appointed a Naval Member of Ordnance Committee in 1929 and given command of the cruiser HMS Danae in 1932. He went on to command the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in 1933 and the Royal Navy Gunnery School at Chatham in 1935 before becoming Director of Training and Staff Duties at the Admiralty in 1936. He was given command of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1938 and was made Aide-de-camp to the King in 1939.

He served in World War II initially as Rear-Admiral in charge of HM Dockyard Scapa Flow and then as Rear-Admiral in charge of the Aircraft Carriers in the Mediterranean Fleet from 1940. He is notable for drawing up the attack plan for the Battle of Taranto, beginning in 1935 (at the instruction of Admiral Sir Dudley Pound) and executed in November 1940. He was appointed Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services from 1941 and Commander of the Aircraft Carriers in Home Fleet, with his flag in HMS Illustrious, in 1942: he commanded air operations during Operation Pedestal in August 1942, for which he was appointed CBE. His last appointment was as Flag Officer, Carrier Training in 1943 before he retired in 1945.

References

Lumley Lyster Wikipedia


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