Henry E. Lackey
| Henry Ellis Lackey | |
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Henry Ellis Lackey before June 1932
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| Born |
23 June 1876 Norfolk, Virginia |
| Died | 15 October 1952 (aged 76) Peterborough, New Hampshire |
| Place of burial | Rock Creek Cemetery, District of Columbia |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Rank |
 Rear Admiral
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| Commands held | |
| Battles/wars | Battle of Santiago de Cuba |
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Henry E. Lackey was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Henry Ellis Lackey served in various capacities as an engineer, inspector, navigator and line officer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Rear Admiral Lackey was born in Norfolk, Virginia, 23 June 1876, the son of Navy engineer Oscar Hamilton Lackey. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, in 1895. Graduated from the Naval Academy in 1899.
After seeing active service as a midshipman in New York, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson's flagship, during the Battle of Santiago in the Spanish–American War, he made his mark as an engineering officer, following in his father's footsteps.
In 1899, he joined Massachusetts and during 1900, served in Eagle and Bancroft. In 1901, he was transferred to Topeka and in 1903, to Wheeling, in American Samoa. He served in Galveston which was placed in commission in February 1905, and in June, sailed for the Asiatic Station via Europe. In 1906, he was in Wilmington, also in the Asiatic Station, and in 1908, was ordered to duty at the Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Maryland. He was senior engineer officer of New York from March to August 1910, when he was appointed Fleet Engineer on the staff of Rear Admiral John Hubbard, commander-in-chief, Asiatic Fleet. As Fleet Engineer he surveyed channels in the Yangtze River between Wuchou and Shanghai to enhance the effectiveness of US naval forces overseeing the enforcement of US treaty rights in China. He was on duty at the Norfolk Navy Yard from 1911 until he was assigned as navigator of Georgia, in January 1915, seeing hostilities at Vera Cruz, Mexico. In 1916, he was assigned executive officer of Kansas until the end of the year.
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