Edward Parry (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Edward Parry
Sir Edward Parry
1st Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy (later CNS)
	In office; 26 January 1950 – 13 October 1951
President	Rajendra Prasad;
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	Office Established
Succeeded by	Mark Pizey
2nd Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy
	In office; 14 August 1948 – 25 January 1950
Monarch	George VI
Governor General	C. Rajagopalachari
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	John Talbot Savignac Hall
Succeeded by	Office Abolished
Personal details
Born	8 April 1893; London, England
Died	21 August 1972 (aged 79); London, England
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath; Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States); Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	Royal Navy
Years of service	1905–1951
Rank	Admiral
Commands	New Zealand Division; HMS Renown; Royal Indian Navy
Battles/wars	First World War; Second World War Battle of the River Plate; Normandy landings; ;

Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, KCB (8 April 1893 – 21 August 1972) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Naval career

Parry joined the Royal Navy 1905 and served in the First World War.^[2]

His appointments from 1936 were:

January-February 1936 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth
14.04.1936 - 1937 Captain Anti-Submarine & Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (Anti-Submarine School, Portland);^[2]
1938 Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President];^[1]
27.01.1939 - 30.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Achilles, New Zealand Division, including Battle of the River Plate in December 1939;
Commanding Officer HMNZS Achilles & from 05.01.1940-28.01.1940 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral [Harwood?], Commanding South America Division
01.05.1940 - 15.10.1940 First Naval Member of New Zealand Naval Board (Navy Office, Wellington)
16.10.1940 - 30.06.1942 Chief of Naval Staff of New Zealand Naval Board (Navy Office, Wellington)
01.07.1942 - 18.08.1942 HMS Victory (additional; for passage to UK & foreign service leave)
19.08.1942 - 27.08.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Operations Division)
28.08.1942 - 20.10.1942 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for special duty on staff of Flag Officer Commanding North Atlantic (FOCNA))
21.10.1942 - 31.10.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty as Commodore Naval Expeditionary Force (NXF))
November 1942 - 18.12.1942 HMS Excellent II (for HMS Evolution; as Commodore Naval Expeditionary Force (NXF))

During the Second World War, he commanded the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, commanding at the Battle of the River Plate .^[2] In this battle he was wounded in the legs when shrapnel hit the bridge. He assumed command of HMS Renown in 1943.^[2] He took part in the Normandy landings and served on the staff of Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force in 1944.^[2] After the war he became Deputy Head of the Naval Division at the Allied Control Commission in Germany.^[2] Parry became Director of Naval Intelligence in July 1946 and Chief of Naval Staff (Commander-in-Chief) of the Royal Indian Navy in August 1948.^[2] He was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1950 New Year Honours^[3] before retiring in 1951.^[2]

In the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate, Parry was played by Jack Gwillim.

References

^ ^a ^b "Royal Navy officer histories". Unit Histories. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
^ "No. 38799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. p. 39.

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Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945

Military offices
Preceded by Henry Horan	Commander-in-Chief, New Zealand Division 1940–1941	Post discontinued
Preceded by Edmund Rushbrooke	Director of Naval Intelligence 1946–1948	Succeeded by Eric Longley-Cook
Preceded by John Talbot Savignac Hall	Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy 1948–1951	Succeeded by Eric Longley-Cook

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[lh-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

[3] "No. 38799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. p. 39.

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v t e Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces
Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (1947–2019)	Sir Rob Lockhart Sir Thomas Elmhirst Sir Edward Parry K. M. Cariappa Sir Charles Pizey Subroto Mukerjee Kodandera Subayya Thimayya Ram Dass Katari Aspy Engineer Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Arjan Singh Adhar Kumar Chatterji Sam Manekshaw Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Om Prakash Mehra Sourendra Nath Kohli Tapishwar Narain Raina Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Jal Cursetji Om Prakash Malhotra Idris Hasan Latif Ronald Lynsdale Pereira K. V. Krishna Rao Dilbagh Singh Oscar Stanley Dawson Arun Shridhar Vaidya Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani Denis La Fontaine Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni Surinder Mehra Sunith Francis Rodrigues Laxminarayan Ramdas Bipin Chandra Joshi S. K. Kaul Vijai Singh Shekhawat Shankar Roychowdhury Satish Sareen Ved Prakash Malik Sushil Kumar Sundararajan Padmanabhan Madhvendra Singh Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Nirmal Chander Vij Arun Prakash Shashindra Pal Tyagi Joginder Jaswant Singh Sureesh Mehta Deepak Kapoor Pradeep Vasant Naik Nirmal Kumar Verma Norman Anil Kumar Browne Bikram Singh Arup Raha Sunil Lanba Birender Singh Dhanoa Bipin Rawat
Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2020–2021)	Bipin Rawat
Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2021–2022)	M. M. Naravane (acting)
Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2022–)	Anil Chauhan
(**Seconded from the British Armed Forces)

v t e Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy (1947–1948)	John Talbot Savignac Hall**
Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy (1948-1950)	John Talbot Savignac Hall Edward Parry
Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy (1950-1955)	Edward Parry Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey
Chief of the Naval Staff (1955–present)	Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey Sir Stephen Hope Carlill Ram Dass Katari Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman Adhar Kumar Chatterji Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Sourendra Nath Kohli Jal Cursetji Ronald Lynsdale Pereira Oscar Stanley Dawson Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni Laxminarayan Ramdas Vijai Singh Shekhawat Vishnu Bhagwat Sushil Kumar Madhvendra Singh Arun Prakash Sureesh Mehta Nirmal Kumar Verma Devendra Kumar Joshi Robin K. Dhowan Sunil Lanba Karambir Singh R. Hari Kumar Dinesh Kumar Tripathi (incumbent)
**Seconded from the Royal Navy