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About Roger Backhouse
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse, was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War as a cruiser commander and after the war became a battle squadron commander and later Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet. Becoming First Sea Lord in November 1938, his major contribution in that role was to abandon the official British policy of sending a major fleet to Singapore to deter Japanese aggression, realising the immediate threat was closer to home and that such a policy was no longer viable. He died from a brain tumour in July 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Everything about Roger Backhouse →- Position held
- First Sea Lord, Third Sea Lord
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- November 24, 1878
- Died
- July 15, 1939