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Allegiance
  
Canada

Name
  
Rollo Mainguy

Rank
  
Vice-Admiral

Years of service
  
1915-1956


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Born
  
May 1, 1901Victoria, British Columbia (
1901-05-01
)

Commands held
  
Chief of the Naval StaffHMCS AssiniboineHMCS OttawaHMCS Uganda

Battles/wars
  
Second World WarBattle of the AtlanticBattle of Okinawa

Died
  
April 29, 1979, Nanaimo, Canada

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire, Canadian Forces Decoration

Battles and wars
  

Service/branch
  

Vice-Admiral Edmond Rollo Mainguy, OBE, CD, RCN (11 May 1901 – 29 April 1979) was a Canadian naval officer.

Military career

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1901 and attended the Royal Naval College of Canada in 1915 during the First World War. With the start of the Second World War he took command of HMCS Assiniboine and then HMCS Ottawa before being promoted to Captain and taking overall command of Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) destroyers in Halifax in 1941. In 1942 he was appointed acting Commodore and took command of RCN destroyers in Newfoundland, quickly followed by an appointment to Ottawa as Chief of Naval Personnel. He returned to active duty as the commanding officer of HMCS Uganda in 1944. As a part of British Pacific Fleet Uganda took part in the Okinawa campaign.

In the post-war years Mainguy was appointed Flag Officer Pacific Coast in 1946, Flag Officer Atlantic Coast in 1948, and was the head of the commission that investigated the RCN insubordination incidents of 1949 before becoming Chief of the Naval Staff in 1951.

He retired from the RCN in 1956 as a Vice-Admiral. He died in 1979.

References

Rollo Mainguy Wikipedia


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