FORMER CHIEF OF N.Z. NAVY NOW RANKS AS REAR-ADMIRAL
Commodore G. W. G. Simpson, C.8.E., R.N., who completed his term as First Naval Member of the Navy Board and Chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff in June, was last month promoted to rear-admiral. He was in New Zealand for three years and was succeeded here by Commodore F. A. Ballance, D. 5.0., R.N., formerly captain of the cruiser Jamaica.
One of the Navy’s most distinguished submarine officers, Rear-Admiral Simpson entered as a cadet through Osborne and Dartmouth Colleges. From 1917 to the end of the First World War he was a midshipman in the Grand Fleet, and in 1921 he began a long career in the submarine service. In 1941 he took charge of the famous 10th Submarine Flotilla at its headquarters at beleaguered Malta. In February, 1943, he left Malta with the knowledge that his submarines had sunk more than 500,000 tons of enemy shipping and played a conspicious part in preventing the success of the Axis break-through in North Africa. In 1945 he became captain of the cruiser Birmingham.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23343, 28 August 1950, Page 6
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