Piers Keane Kekewich

Rear-Admiral Piers K. Kekewich as a Captain, June 1929.
Portrait: © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Rear-Admiral Piers Keane Kekewich, C.B. (23 January, 1889 – ) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in Elstree, Hants. Kekewich gained three months' time on passing out of Britannia.

Kekewich was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 October, 1909.

Early in the war, he was navigating officer in H.M.S. Tyne. On 8 January 1915, he was sent to Active for a single month and was then made navigator in the light cruiser Galatea until 27 July 1917.

Kekewich was navigator in the light cruiser Cardiff from 27 July 1917 through the end of the war.

Kekewich was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 15 October, 1917.

Kekewich was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1922.

Kekewich was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1928.

World War II

Kekewich was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 5 January, 1940 and placed on the Retired List the following day.

See Also

• Service Records
• Wikipedia

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Humphrey T. Walwyn	Captain of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 15 Aug, 1927 – 1 Sep, 1927	Succeeded by Hubert S. Monroe
Preceded by Colin A. G. Hutchison	Captain of H.M.S. Bee 23 Aug, 1929 – 10 Nov, 1931	Succeeded by Henry H. Bousfield
Preceded by Herbert A. Forster	Captain of H.M.S. Frobisher 18 Dec, 1934 – 18 Dec, 1936	Succeeded by Ernest J. Spooner
Preceded by Eric G. Robinson	Captain of Devonport Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master 24 Dec, 1936 – 9 Jan, 1939	Succeeded by Walter N. T. Beckett
Preceded by Henry P. Boxer	King's Harbour Master, Rosyth 9 Jan, 1939 – 18 Nov, 1939	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Kenneth H. L. MacKenzie	King's Harbour Master, Malta 31 Oct, 1943 – 9 Jan, 1946	Succeeded by Wilfrid St. A. Malleson