Philip Mack
| Philip John Mack | |
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6 October 1892 Paston Hall, Paston, Norfolk |
| Died | 29 April 1943 (aged 50) |
| Buried | Saint Margaret's church, Paston, Norfolk |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/ |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1905 – 1943 |
| Rank | Rear Admiral |
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Rear Admiral Philip John Mack DSO* (6 October 1892—29 April 1943) was an officer of the British Royal Navy.
He was the eldest son of Major Philip Paston Mack (1854–1923) of the 12th Lancers, and Kate Lucy Pearce (1869–1955), of Paston Hall, Paston, Norfolk.
Mack joined the Navy on 15 September 1905, aged 13, as a naval cadet at the Osborne and Britannia Royal Naval Colleges. On 9 August 1910 he was posted to the battlecruiser Indomitable as a midshipman, transferring to the cruiser Amethyst on 15 July 1913, having been promoted to sub-lieutenant on 15 June.
Mack was promoted to lieutenant on 15 September 1914, and subsequently served during World War I aboard the torpedo-boat destroyer Tigress, the battleship Lord Nelson, and the former collier River Clyde, which had been requisitioned and refitted for use as a landing ship during the Gallipoli Campaign from April 1915, and from which Mack was eventually invalided home. From January to April 1917 he commanded the Q-ship Result (Q 23), a 122-ton three-masted steel-hulled topsail schooner, in which he engaged and damaged the U-boat UC-45 on 15 February, and on 4 April engaged another U-boat near the Noord Hinder lightvessel off Vlissingen. Result was seriously damaged by gunfire from the submarine, and was eventually returned to her owners in August. Mack subsequently received a Mention in Despatches on 21 April 1917. He then commanded another Q-ship, the former cargo ship Tay and Tyne, later the RFA Industry.
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