About Henry McCall
Lived 1903 – 1980 (aged 76–77). Henry McCall was a British naval officer.
Admiral Sir Henry William Urquhart McCall (11 June 1895 – 23 March 1980) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet from 1951 until his retirement in 1953.
Naval career McCall joined the Royal Navy as midshipman in the cruiser at the Cape of Good Hope in 1908. He served in the First World War as sub-lieutenant in the steamship HMS Daffodil from 1915, as Executive Officer in the destroyer in the Grand Fleet from 1916 and as First Lieutenant in the destroyer in the Grand Fleet from 1918. He became commanding officer of the destroyer in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1932 and naval attaché at Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1938.
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Who was Henry McCall?
British admiral
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Henry McCall was born in 1903 in Largs.
When did Henry McCall die?
Henry McCall died on 23 March 1980 in Wonston.
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Henry McCall was a naval officer.
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Henry McCall was British.
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