serviceyears branch death_date awards battles birth_date rank article_title name
1896 -- 1945 uk 9 may 1965 order st george distinguished service order & bar order of st of stanislas 2nd class -lrb- russia -rrb- the bath order of st michael and world war i world war ii 9 october 1876 vice admiral berwick curtis
 berwick curtis
berwick curtis

vice-admiral berwick curtis cb cmg dso & bar -lrb- 9 october 1876 -- 9 may 1965 -rrb- was a british royal navy officer .
curtis was educated at hms `` britannia '' and was commissioned sub-lieutenant in may 1896 .
he was promoted lieutenant in december 1898 and commander in 1911 .
during the first world war he was promoted captain in 1916 , mentioned in despatches for his services at the battle of jutland , awarded the distinguished service order -lrb- dso -rrb- in may 1917 and bar in october 1917 , and appointed companion of the order of the bath -lrb- cb -rrb- in the 1919 new year honours .
he also received the russian order of st stanislas 2nd class in june 1917 .
during the russian civil war in 1919 he served as captain -lrb- d -rrb- commanding the twentieth destroyer flotilla in the baltic , for which he was appointed companion of the order of st michael and st george -lrb- cmg -rrb- in january 1920 .
he personally commanded .
the citation for his mention in despatches in march 1920 reads : for valuable service in command of the twentieth destroyer flotilla in the baltic .
the success of the operations connected with the relief of riga was largely due to the perfect accord and co-operation which existed between the british naval forces under captain curtis and the french naval forces under commodore brisson .
he was promoted rear-admiral in 1928 and was appointed rear-admiral-in-charge and admiral-superintendent of gibraltar dockyard the following year .
he held the position until 1931 and retired in september 1932 with the rank of vice-admiral .
in the second world war he returned to service as a commodore of convoys .
