OBITUARY.

Wairarapa Age, 30 May 1936, Page 6

OBITUARY.

ADMIRAL SIR CECIL THURSBY. LONDON, May 28. The death has occurred of Admiral Sir Cecil Thursby, whose burly thickset figure and bulldog jaw will be remembered by every Anzac whose disembarkation he covered at Gaba Tepe. HeW not only a fighting sailor but also a first-class diplomat. (Admiral Sir Cecil Thursby was born, in .1861 and ..entered the Navy in 1874, being a midshipman on the Amethyst during her engagement with the Peruvian ship Huascar. He served at Souakim in 1884-85 and at the Dardanelles during the Great War, being mentioned in dispatches, and was in charge of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand forces on Gallipoli Peninsula. In 1916 he received the command of the British Adriatic Squadron, and in 1911 was Commander-in-Chief in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the following year he became commander of Coastguard and Reserves, and in 1919-20, until-he retired, he was commander at Plymouth. He was promoted Admiral in 1919. He was made a K.C.B. for his services in the Mediterranean during the war, and a K.C.M.G. ‘in 1916. He also held a number of.foreign orders).