CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF
COMMODORE G. W. G. SIMPSON APPOINTED
LATE COMMANDER OF CRUISER BIRMINGHAM
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. The Government has accepted the Admiralty’s nomination of Captain George Walter Gillow Simpson, C.8.E., R.N., with the rank commodore (second class), as First Naval Member and Chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff to succeed Commodore G. H. Faulkner, D.S.C., whose term of office expires shortly. Commodore Simpson wifi probably leave England in July. Commodore 'Simpson operated from Malta iii the submarine Porpoise for the first six weeks of the war, and was then appointed second in command of the Third Submarine Flotilla at Harwich. In 1941 he returned to Malta in charge of the Tenth Submarine Flotilla, operating against enemy shipping to Tripoli. For this work he was awarded the C.B.E. and the Polish order Virtuti Militari. He was torpedoed on the way to Alexandria at the end of this service.
He was then appointed commodore (destroyers) in the Western Approaches till November, 1945, when he was appointed to command the cruiser Birmingham.
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Evening Star, Issue 26031, 20 February 1947, Page 4
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