Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore KCB CVO (2 February 1862 – 2 April 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord.

Sir Gordon Moore
Moore in 1916
Born2 February 1862 (1862-02-02)
Died2 April 1934 (1934-04-03) (aged 72)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankAdmiral
Commands held2nd Battlecruiser Squadron
9th Cruiser Squadron
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Moore joined the Royal Navy and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.[1] He was promoted to Captain 17 July 1901,[2] and later Rear-Admiral. He was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1907 and Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes in 1909.[1] He went on to be Third Sea Lord in 1912.[1] He served in World War I commanding the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron from 1914 and then seeing action at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914 and then as Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty's Second in Command at the Battle of Dogger Bank in which he led the sinking of SMS Blücher in January 1915.[3] He commanded the 9th Cruiser Squadron from February 1915 and went on to be Controller of the Mechanical Warfare Department in 1917.[1] He retired in 1919.[1]

References
  1. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  2. "No. 27335". The London Gazette. 19 July 1901. p. 4779.
  3. World War One By Priscilla Mary Roberts, p.585
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Charles Briggs		 Third Sea Lord
1912–1914		 Succeeded by
Sir Frederick Tudor
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