Category:William Tennant (Royal Navy officer)
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Date of birth | 2 January 1890 Upton-upon-Severn | ||||
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Date of death | 26 July 1963 Worcester | ||||
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English: Admiral Sir William George "Bill" Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when it searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic.
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Aboard HMS Mauritius, July 1942. A13453A.jpg 800 × 612; 52 KB
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