Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff
Military Person
1881 – 1963
Who was Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff?
Rear Admiral Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff was an officer of the United States Navy during the First World War and the Second World War. After early service in the Far East he specialised in gunnery, serving in that capacity on many US Navy capital ships. During World War I he served with the US Naval Force sent to join the British Grand Fleet.
After the war he took command of multiple heavy units of the US fleet, before being appointed Judge Advocate General of the Navy in 1936. Thereafter he commanded various cruiser squadrons of the Atlantic Fleet before his retirement at the end of World War II.
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1881
Peoria - Also known as
- Gilbert Jonathon Rowcliff
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- United States Naval Academy
- Lived in
- Peoria
- Died
- Jul 15, 1963
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on July 23, 2013
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