Anthony Follett Pugsley
| Tony Pugsley | |
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Captain Anthony Pugsley c.1945
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| Born | 7 December 1901 |
| Died | 17 July 1990 (aged 88) |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1915–1954 |
| Rank | Rear Admiral |
| Commands held |
Flag Officer Malayan Area HMS Warrior HMS Sea Eagle 19th Destroyer Flotilla HMS Trafalgar 14th Destroyer Flotilla HMS Jervis HMS Paladin HMS Fearless HMS Javelin HMS Westcott HMS Antelope |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order & Two Bars Mentioned in Despatches (3) War Cross (Greece) |
Rear Admiral Anthony Follett Pugsley CB DSO (7 December 1901 – 17 July 1990) was a British naval officer. During the Second World War he served as a successful destroyer captain, landed the 3rd Canadian Division on D-Day, and planned and executed the amphibious landings on Walcheren during a critically important phase in the Battle of the Scheldt in late 1944.
Tony Pugsley was born on 7 December 1901, the son of a solicitor, John Follett Pugsley, and Lucy Melton Chorley Loveband. Both his parents came from Devonshire families; his grandfather, who had qualified but never practised as a doctor, lived at Wiveliscombe, and his mother’s family were gentry originally from Yarnscombe in north-west Devon. Pugsley was descended both from Josiah Follett, the non-conformist preacher of the 18th Century, and William Pugsley who as a midshipman survived the sinking of the Royal George when she capsized at Spithead in 1782.
Pugsley was educated for two terms at Blundell's School in Tiverton, the fifth successive generation of Pugsleys to go there, before joining the Navy as a cadet, aged 13, and going to the Royal Naval College Osborne and thence to the Royal Naval College Dartmouth. He joined HMS Warspite as a midshipman in time to witness the surrender of the German High-Seas Fleet to the British Grand Fleet in November 1918.
In 1931 Pugsley married Barbara Byam Shaw, the daughter of the pre-Raphaelite artist John Byam Liston Shaw (Byam Shaw) and Caroline Evelyn Eunice Pyke-Nott.
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