page_title: Francis Cromie
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caption_attribution_description: English: British Royal Navy Captain Francis Newton Cromie (1882-1918). From 1917-1918 naval attaché at the British Embassy in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russia. Русский: Капитан Кроми, Фрэнсис Ньютон - британского Королевского военно-морского флота.
context_page_description: Captain Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB, DSO, was a distinguished British Royal Navy Commander, and the de facto chief of British Intelligence operations in northern Russia for the British Naval Intelligence Division. At the outbreak of World War I he was commanding officer of the British Royal Navy China Hong Kong submarine flotilla, and from 1915 assumed command of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic. Later during the First World War and Russian revolution he was naval attaché to the diplomatic staff of the British Embassy in Petrograd, Russia, where he met his death, while defending the British embassy premises.
context_section_description: Captain (Acting) Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB, DSO, (30 January 1882 – 31 August 1918, Petrograd) was a distinguished British Royal Navy Commander, and the de facto chief of British Intelligence operations in northern Russia for the British Naval Intelligence Division. At the outbreak of World War I he was commanding officer of the  British Royal Navy China Hong Kong submarine flotilla, and from 1915 assumed command of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic. Later during the First World War and Russian revolution he was naval attaché to the diplomatic staff of the British Embassy in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russia, where he met his death, while defending the British embassy premises.
caption: Captain Francis Cromie
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