NAVAL OFFICERS PROMOTED

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24151, 10 January 1944, Page 4

NAVAL OFFICERS PROMOTED

CAPTAIN W. E. PARRY A REAR ADMIRAL

f8.0.W.) RUGBY, Jan. 8. A naval officer well known to New Zealand, Captain W. E. Parry, C.8., who commanded the cruiser Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate, is among seven captains who have been promoted to the rank of rear-admiral.

REAR-ADMIRAL PARRY Captain C. H. L. Woodhouse, who commanded the cruiser Ajax in the Battle of the River Plate, is also promoted to the rank of rear-admiral. Rear-Admiral Parry commanded the battle cruiser Renown when Mr Churchill crossed the North Atlantic to attend the Quebec Conference. He was appointed to command the Achilles on January 27, 1939, and from 1940 to 1942 was Chief of Naval Staff and first member of the New Zealand Naval Board with the rank of commodore, second class, succeeding Commodore H. E. Horan. In the Great War he served as torpedo officer of the light cruiser Birmingham in the Grand Fleet, and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1934. He commanded the Anti-Submarine Establishment at Portland from 1936 to 1937, and served at the Imperial Defence College in 1938. The Admiralty announces also that Captains Richard Shelley, Henry J. Egerton, Henry C. Bowell, Leslie H. Ashmore, and John G. L. Dund have been promoted to the rank of rearadmiral.