George Hunt (Royal Navy officer)
| George Edward Hunt | |
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Lieutenant Commander GE Hunt, DSO, DSC, RN by Anthony Devas (1945)
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| Born |
4 July 1916 Milton of Campsie, Scotland |
| Died | 16 August 2011 (aged 95) Brisbane, Australia |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
Merchant Navy (1929–38) Royal Navy Reserve (1930–38) Royal Navy (1938–62) |
| Years of service | 1929–1962 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands held |
7th Frigate Squadron (1956–58) HMS Bigbury Bay (1956–58) Admiralty Underwater Detection Establishment (1954–56) HMS Ambush (1947) HMS Taku (1944–45) HMS Ultor (1943–44) HMS H33 (1942) |
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| Awards |
Distinguished Service Order & Bar Distinguished Service Cross & Bar Mentioned in Despatches (2) |
| Other work | British High Commission in Australia |
Captain George Edward Hunt, DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar (4 July 1916 – 16 August 2011) was a highly decorated Royal Navy submarine commander during the Second World War. While commanding HMS Ultor, he became the British submarine commander with the greatest number of sinkings of enemy vessels to his name, though David Wanklyn achieved sinkings of greater tonnage. Of the 68 torpedoes Hunt fired, 47% hit their targets.
George Edward Hunt was born in Milton of Campsie, East Dumbartonshire, Scotland, where his family owned a calico printing works in the town, but he was raised in Kampala in the British Protectorate of Uganda until the age of seven, where his father John was a chartered accountant in the Colonial Service. His parents then sent him back to Scotland to live with relatives and study at St Ninian's Preparatory School in Moffat until he was 13 and a half.
In January 1930, while still 13, he entered HMS Conway as an officer cadet in the RNR (Royal Naval Reserve), graduating as a senior cadet captain in August 1932 with a nomination to midshipman RNR.
At the age of 16, he became an indentured cadet in the Merchant Navy, joining the Henderson Line, serving first on board the SS Arracan then later on the SS Henzada as a senior cadet, both ships plying between Great Britain and the Burma.
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