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Revision as of 09:35, 21 August 2018

Lieutenant-Commander William Ogilvy Hozier (2 April, 1888 – 19 April, 1921) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He spoke German.

Life & Career

Hozier was awarded the Ryder Memorial Prize for 1908 for placing highest in the examination in French at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Hozier was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 September, 1909.

Hozier was appointed in command of the destroyer Thorn on 3 August, 1912.[1]

Hozier was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 September, 1917.

See Also

  • Service Records
  • Wikipedia
  • Court of Enquiry investigating escape of hostile submarine from nets in Straits of Dover. Lieut W.O. Hozier of Nubian The National Archives. ADM 156/160.

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Harold G. Campbell
Captain of H.M. T.B. 110
4 Jul, 1913[2] – Aug, 1914[3][4]
Succeeded by
Harald E. Wharton
Preceded by
John N. Benbow
Captain of H.M.S. Thorn
3 Aug, 1914[Inference] – 20 Jan, 1915
Succeeded by
Henry F. Besant
Preceded by
Charles E. Cundall
Captain of H.M.S. Nubian
20 Jan, 1915 – 23 Jun, 1915
Succeeded by
John I. Hallett
Preceded by
Tim M. Barrett
Captain of H.M.S. Clematis
12 Oct, 1916[5]
Succeeded by
Ernest K. Irving

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 385a.
  2. The Navy List. (August, 1914). p. 401a.
  3. The Navy List. (August, 1914). p. 401a.
  4. The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 401a.
  5. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 392k.