Cunningham, Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount, 1883-1963

ABC joined Royal Navy in 1897 and thereafter steadily rose in rank; he commanded a destroyer in the First World War and in the interwar years a destroyer squadron and his first battleship, HMS Rodney (1930). In the late 1930s he attained flag rank and served at the Admiralty. In 1939 he was appointe...