PORTRAIT OF COMMODORE HENRY ARTHUR SHOWERS RAN. HE ENTERED THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL COLLEGE AS ...

PORTRAIT OF COMMODORE HENRY ARTHUR SHOWERS RAN. HE ENTERED THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL COLLEGE AS A CADET MIDSHIPMAN AS A MEMBER OF THE ORIGINAL FIRST TERM AND WAS PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK ON 31 DECEMBER 1939. HE SERVED WITH THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE LAST WAR AND ON THE OUTBREAK OF THE PRESENT WAR WAS APPOINTED TO COMMAND OF HMAS ADELAIDE, RELINQUISHING THIS COMMAND ON 8 JUNE 1943, WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED IN COMMAND OF HMAS HOBART, WHICH SHIP HE COMMANDED DURING THE BATTLES OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. LATE IN 1943 HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF STAFF OFFICER TO THE NOIC SYDNEY AND IN MAY OF THIS YEAR RELIEVED COMMODORE COLLINS IN COMMAND OF HMAS SHROPSHIRE, TAKING PART IN THE COMBINED OPERATIONS WHICH RESULTED IN THE OCCUPATION OF BIAK, AND THE RECENT LANDING AT MOROTAI. ON 15 OCTOBER 1944, HE ASSUMED DUTY AS SECOND NAVAL MEMBER OF THE NAVAL BOARD WITH THE RANK OF COMMODORE SECOND CLASS.