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Sir Clement Moody, (31 May 1891 – 6 July 1960) was a

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officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 1945 to 1946 and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, from 1946 to 1948.

Naval career

Moody was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the

in 1911. He served in the

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and, in 1935, was given command of .Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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from 1937. Moody served in the

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as Director of the Naval Air Division and then as second-in-command of Naval Air Stations in 1941. He was made second-in-command of Aircraft Carriers in Home Waters in 1943; in April 1944 he took part in Operation Cockpit, a

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raid on Japanese port and oil facilities on Sabang Island (off the northern tip of

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). Moody went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 15 December 1945 to 8 March 1946.Guide to the archives on relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia 1945–1963, p. 63
His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, in 1946; he retired in 1948.

References

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