Evening star., 1945-01-03
Sir beriram Ramsay,
Admiral Who Guided
D-DaY Ships, Killed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 3.-Admiral Sir Ber-
tram Home Ramsay, whose ships
saved the British Army at Dun
kerque and who four years later d.
rected naval operations in the Allied
invasion of Normandy, was killed
yesterday when his plane crashed
on trip to Belgium.
GA Reuters dispatch to London
said Admiral Ramsay's plane
crashed soon after taking off
from Paris airfleld)
An announcement from Supreme
Allied Headquarters said the ad-
miral. whose aggressiveness won him
the nickname "Dynamo"-which was
the code name of the Dunkerque
opera tion-was killed while en- route
to conference.
All four other occupants of Sir
Bertram's plane. British navy per-
sonnel, were killed.
They were Comdr. G. w. Rowell
and Lit. D. NJ Henderson, members
of the admiral's staff; 1t. Comdr.
Sir ]. E. Lewis, the pilot, and Petty
Oficer David l.. Morgan, wireless
operator.
Planned Many Operations.
Admiral Ramsay, who would have
been 81 on January 20. was planner
and commander of every important
combined naval-army operation OF
the Allies and was naval commander
in chief under Gen. Eisenhower, the
supreme Allied commander. He was
named to that post when Gen Eisen-
hover moved to London to plan the
invasion of the continent. Admiral
Ramsay was the second of the
Eisenhower invasion command to be
lost. s..
Air Chief Marshal Trafford l..
Leigh Mallory, head of the Allied
aerial forces, recently was reported
missing en- route to a new station in
the Southeast Asia command.
Admiral Ramsay was in command
of British naval forces at Dover at
the time of the Dunkerque evacua-
ton and was knighted for his
achievement in bringing home 1885,
600 British and French soldiers.
As Years in Navy.
His service in the World War
climaxed As years in the British
Royal Navy. He hao been retired in
1888 after serving as chief of staff
of the British home fleet, but was
recalled to duty in 1899.
The plans he and his staff formu-
lated eliminated in the greatest
naval operation in history, the land
ing of an unbroken torrent of Allied
troops and armament on the shores
of France on and after June 6, 1914
He was born in 1883, son of the
late Brig. Gen. and Mrs. W. A.
Ramsay. He entered the Royal Navy
in 1898 and received his first COM
mand in 1915 in the Dover patrol.
Later he joined the staff of the I'M
perial Defense College and then was
named commander of the battleshtp
Royal Sovereign.
Admiral Ramsay became a rear
admiral and chief of staff of the
home fleet in 1885. serving in that
post until his retirement. He was
advanced to the rank of full admiral
on his return to duty at the out
break of the war.
Twice Knighted.
Already@a knight Commander of.
the Bath for his achievement at
Dunkerque, Admiral Ramsay was
made Knight of the British Empire
for his distinguished services in
planning and executing the naval
operations in the invasion Of Sicily
He also received the Order of
Ushakov, highest Russian decora-
ton awarded for naval men outside
the Soviet Union.
Naval circles suggested Admiral
Ramsay's logical successor would be
Admiral Sir John Cunningham,
commander in chief of the Mediter-
ranean fleet.
Admiral Harold R. Stark, COM
manding United States naval forces
in European waters, declared in
tribute to Sir Bertram: History
will link his name with the success
of the Normandy landings. He could
have no greater memorial"
The admiral's death came as
distinct shock to United States per-
sonnel and his loss is a great one
to the Allied command" Admiral
Stark added.