About Alfred Ransom
Lived 1871 – 1953 (aged 81). Alfred Ransom was a naval officer.
Rear-Admiral Alfred Charles Ransom CBE (1871–1953) was a senior Royal Navy officer.
Naval career Born on 22 August 1871, Alfred Ransom was educated at Bedford Modern School (1878–84), and Bedford School. He received his first commission in the Royal Navy in 1888 and served during the anti-slavery Gambia Expedition, in 1894. He served in China during the Boxer Rebellion, between 1900 and 1901, and during the First World War, serving aboard between 1914 and 1916. He attained the rank of paymaster rear admiral and retired from the Royal Navy in 1926.
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Who was Alfred Ransom?
Royal Navy admiral
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Alfred Ransom was born on 22 August 1871.
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Alfred Ransom died on 28 June 1953 in Torquay.
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Alfred Ransom was a naval officer.
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