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MILITARY PERSONNEL

James Somerville

1882 - 1949

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville, (17 July 1882 – 19 March 1949) was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War as fleet wireless officer for the Mediterranean Fleet where he was involved in providing naval support for the Gallipoli Campaign. He also served in the Second World War as commander of the newly formed Force H: after the French armistice with Germany, Winston Churchill gave Somerville and Force H the task of neutralizing the main element of the French battle fleet, then at Mers El Kébir in Algeria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Somerville has received more than 168,704 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). James Somerville is the 1,314th most popular military personnel (down from 1,281st in 2019), the 2,548th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,840th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, James Somerville ranks 1,314 out of 1,468. Before him are Johann von Werth, Vicente Rojo Lluch, Ivan Sidorenko, Bardanes Tourkos, Sun Chuanfang, and Guglielmo Pepe. After him are Kurt Feldt, Laomedon of Mytilene, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, and Sergei Khudyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, James Somerville ranks 150. Before him are Harry Porter, Paul Anspach, Wilhelm Nusselt, Ernst Weiss, Louis Pergaud, and Ali Fuat Cebesoy. After him are Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Giorgio Abetti, Walter Braunfels, Louis St. Laurent, George Bellows, and Oldřich Duras. Among people deceased in 1949, James Somerville ranks 104. Before him are Frank Morgan, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leonor Michaelis, Charles Dullin, Elin Pelin, and Nikolay Gamaleya. After him are Nándor Dáni, Oton Župančič, Sekiryo Kaneda, John Haigh, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, and Chairil Anwar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Somerville ranks 2,548 out of 7,765. Before him are John Aubrey (1626), John Williams (1903), Jerome Flynn (1963), Trevor Pinnock (1946), Charles James Fox (1749), and Ælfgifu of Northampton (990). After him are Mary Cartwright (1900), Asser (900), Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Belinda Lee (1935), John Illsley (1949), and Jane Asher (1946).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, James Somerville ranks 63. Before him are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Patrick Gordon (1635), Claude Choules (1901), Horatio Gates (1727), George Rooke (1650), and Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888). After him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Douglas Bader (1910), Charles Warren (1840), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797), and John Burgoyne (1722).

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