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Theodore Hallett

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Battles/wars
  
World War I

Died
  
December 16, 1956

Service/branch
  
Royal Navy

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
Theodore Hallett

Battles and wars
  
World War I

Rank
  
Vice admiral

Years of service
  
1894 – 1933 1939 – 1945

Commands held
  
HMS Blonde HMS Chatham HMS Southampton HMS Repulse Coast of Scotland

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath

Vice Admiral Sir Theodore John Hallett KBE CB (10 January 1878 – 16 December 1956) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland.

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Hallett joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1894. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December 1899, and on 15 February 1900 was lent to HMS Edgar for duty on voyage to Hong Kong, where he was appointed to serve in the HMS Phoenix, recommissioned for the China station.

He served in World War I as Commanding Officer of the light cruisers HMS Bonde and HMS Chatham, in the latter serving as Flag Captain of the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron.

He went on to be Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord in 1922, Captain of the Fleet for the Mediterranean Fleet in 1924 and Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland in 1929. He was then appointed Aide-de-Camp to the King and retired in 1933.

He was recalled in World War II to serve as a beachmaster for the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, as a member of the expeditionary force to Narvik in Norway in 1942 and then as Director of Training for the Commandos.

Family

In 1908 he married Helen Blanche Dalkeyne; they had two children.

References

Theodore Hallett Wikipedia