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Revision as of 09:35, 13 May 2014

Captain Guy Plantagenet Bigg-Wither, Royal Navy (1 June, 1878 – ?) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 June, 1900.[1]

He was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1912.[2]

Bigg-Wither was one of Herbert Richmond's sources of "information and encouragement within the Naval Staff" in the Training and Staff Duties Division.[3]

In August 1920, he was appointed in command of the light cruiser Dartmouth.[4] One year later, he was placed in charge of H.M.S. Caradoc.[5]

Bibliography

  • Hunt, Barry D. (1982). Sailor-Scholar: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1871-1946. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-104-8.

Service Record

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Herbert W. W. Hope
Captain of H.M.S. Dartmouth
3 Aug, 1920 – ?
Succeeded by
Dudley B. N. North
Preceded by
Ragnar M. Colvin
Captain of H.M.S. Caradoc
Aug, 1921 – ?
Succeeded by
Reginald St. P. Parry
 

Footnotes

  1. The London Gazette: no. 27211. p. 4433. 17 July, 1900.
  2. The London Gazette: no. 28623. p. 4748. 2 July, 1912.
  3. Hunt. Sailor-Scholar. p. 91.
  4. The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 757.
  5. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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