Rear-Admiral John Harvey Forbes Crombie CB DSO (16 February 1900 – 31 August 1972) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Naval career Crombie joined the Royal Navy in 1913.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He served in World War I in the battleship and then in the destroyer . He also served in the Second World War as Commanding Officer of the minesweeper , as Senior Officer for Minesweepers in the White Sea and then as Director of Minesweeping at the Admiralty from 1943.HMS Bramble Crew After the War he became Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier before taking over command of the HMS Mercury Royal Navy Signal School in 1948. He became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1951 and retired in 1953.Listing compiled by historian Colin Mackie
Family He married Rosamund, daughter of Brigadier-General Rodney Style.Roots.web Their daughter Julia Rosamond Crombie (b. August 1947) married, in 1974, John Algernon Henry Trotter of Mordington House, Berwickshire.Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain - The Kingdom in Scotland 19th edition, edited by Peter Beauclerk Dewar, 2001, , p.1338.
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