Rear Admiral Harold Bruce Farncomb

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Photograph 112188
Service number 6646
Ranks Held Captain, Rear Admiral
Birth Date 28/11/1899
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, North Sydney
Death Date 12/02/1971
Death Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Final Rank Rear Admiral
Service Royal Australian Navy
Units
  • HMAS Australia
  • Royal Australian Navy
Places
Conflicts/Operations
  • First World War, 1914-1918
  • Second World War, 1939-1945

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    Arrival of HMAS Perth. Rear Admiral J. G. Crace, Rear Admiral commanding the Australian Squadron ...

    SYDNEY. ARRIVAL OF HMAS PERTH. CAPTAIN H. B. FARNCOMB.

    SYDNEY. H.M.A.S. PERTH. CAPT. H. B. FARNCOMB.

    H.M.A.S. PERTH. MR. R.G. MENZIES, AND CAPT. H. B. FARNCOMB. (CENTRE) & CAPT. W.R. PATTERSON.

    The Chaplain conducting a church service on HMAS Hobart on the quarter deck which was attended by ...

    Commodore H. B. Farncomb RAN at the church service on HMAS Hobart which was attended by the ...

    AT SEA, 3 JULY 1945. COMMANDER H B FARNCOMB, RAN, AT HIS DESK ABOARD THE RAN CRUISER, HMAS ...

    AT SEA, 3 JULY 1945. COMMODORE H B FARNCOMB, RAN, ON THE BRIDGE OF THE RAN CRUISER, HMAS ...

    TAWI TAWI ISLAND. 1945-06-14. CAPTAIN R. R. DOWLING, RAN AND THE PIPING PARTY SALUTING AS ...

    SYDNEY, NSW. 1945-09-12. COMMODORE H. B. FARNCOMB, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

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Date of birth 28/11/1899 North Sydney, NSW.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs) 31/12/1912 Enliset in the RAN.
Other 1913 Was part of the first intake to the Royal Australian Naval College.
Date promoted 01/1917 Appointed midshipman and sent to Britain for training with the Royal Navy.
Date promoted 1920 Appointed lieutenant.
Other 1924 Graduated from the Royal Naval Staff College.
Date returned to Australia 1925
Date promoted 06/1932 Promoted to commander.
Other units 1933 Joined HMAS Australia as executive officer.
Date of honour or award 1934 Appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO), after the HMAS Australia took the Duke of Gloucester to England.
Other 08/1935 Farncomb was attached to the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division.
Date promoted 1937 Promoted captain commanding HMAS Yarra.
Other units 1939 Commander of HMAS Perth.
Other units 12/1941 Commander of HMAS Australia.
Other 05/1942 Involved in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Other 12/1943 Participated in the landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
Date of honour or award 09/02/1943 Gazetted Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
Other 12/1944 Took command of the Australian Squadron.
Other 03/1944 Posted to the United Kingdom to take command of the HMS Attacker, which participated in the landings in southern France and the liberation the Aegean.
Date of honour or award 01/05/1945 Gazetted Companion of the Bath (CB).
Other 1946 Took command of the Australian fleet.
Date promoted 01/1947 Promoted to rear admiral
Date of honour or award 15/05/1947 Gazetted US Legion of Merit.
Date of honour or award 02/01/1948 Gazetted US Navy Cross.
Date of discharge 1951 Retired from the Navy to study law.
Date of death 12/02/1971 Sydney, NSW.

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