Donald Macintyre (naval officer)
| Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre | |
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Commander Donald MacIntyre
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| Born |
26 January 1904 Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India |
| Died | 23 May 1981 (aged 77) Ashford, Kent |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1926–1955 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands held |
HMS Blackcap 5th Escort Group HMS Bickerton Escort Group B2 HMS Walker HMS Hesperus HMS Venomous HMS Defender HMS Kingfisher |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Distinguished Service Order & Two Bars Distinguished Service Cross Mentioned in Despatches Legion of Merit (United States) |
Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre DSO & Two Bars, DSC (26 January 1904 – 23 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a successful convoy escort commander. Following the war, he was an author of numerous books on British naval history.
Macintyre joined the Navy in 1926, serving in his first year in a destroyer with the Mediterranean fleet before transferring to the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) to train as a pilot. He served seven years with the FAA, first in HMS Furious, then HMS Hermes on the China Station, then in HMS Courageous with the Home fleet. In 1935 an accident left him unfit to fly, and he returned to surface vessels.
He was given command of HMS Kingfisher, an anti-submarine patrol vessel, and was attached to the Anti-Submarine School at Portland.
In 1937, he took command of his first destroyer, Defender, and was again stationed in the Far East, seeing action during the Amoy crisis in 1938. In 1939, he returned to Britain to take command of the destroyer HMS Venomous, joining a Channel flotilla as war broke out.
In 1939, not long after the declaration of war, Macintyre and Venomous were on escort duty in the English Channel with a destroyer flotilla led by HMS Malcolm (Captain T Halsey), escorting troopships from Britain to France.
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