Brian Richmond Brasier-Creagh

Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Brian Richmond Brasier-Creagh, (12 September, 1899 – ) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

He served in the battlecruiser Inflexible as a Midshipman from 8 September 1915 to January, 1918, seeing action at the Battle of Jutland.

Brasier-Creagh was granted the acting rank of Sub-Lieutenant on 15 November, 1917. Captain Thesiger described him as "backward for his years but is imporving."

Brasier-Creagh was promoted to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant on 15 May, 1918.

Brasier-Creagh was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 May, 1920.

In 1922, he was described as "young for his age" and "slow" by Captain Lionel Fitzgerald Maitland-Kirwan of the light cruiser Cardiff. Despite this, in September 1923 he was permitted to study at Oxford under his own arrangement while unemployed on half-pay.

Brasier-Creagh was retired owing to non-service on 24 March, 1926 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on the Retired List on 15 May, 1928.

In early 1933, he travelled to Switzerland.

World War II

He was appointed to the aircraft carrier Argus on 23 October 1939.

See Also

• Service Records
• H.M.S. Inflexible at the Battle of Jutland