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 181,461 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James Somerville is the 1,553rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,313th in 2019), the 2,653rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,542nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, James Somerville ranks 1,553 out of 2,058. Before him are Farrukh Hormizd, Thomas Gage, Erich Marcks, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, and Josip Filipović. After him are Friedrich Schulz, Benjamin Briggs, Melvin Purvis, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Xue Yue, and Mikhail Yegorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, James Somerville ranks 158. Before him are Ernst Weiss, Robert Kerr, Louis Pergaud, Simon Vratsian, Leonhard Frank, and Joseph Marx. After him are Hendrik Willem van Loon, Oldřich Duras, George Bellows, Jenő Fuchs, Kyusaku Ogino, and Rockwell Kent. Among people deceased in 1949, James Somerville ranks 112. Before him are Elin Pelin, Émile Eddé, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, Leonor Michaelis, Helen Churchill Candee, and Maria Ouspenskaya. After him are Oton Župančič, Paul Chocque, Edward Stettinius Jr., Sekiryo Kaneda, Uemura Shōen, and Chairil Anwar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Somerville ranks 2,653 out of 8,785. Before him are Joey Dunlop (1952), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), Constance Lloyd (1858), Georgette Heyer (1902), Dave Legeno (1963), and William Curtis (1746). After him are James Young Simpson (1811), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Andrew Bell (1753), Jamie Oliver (1975), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), and William Wilson (1844).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, James Somerville ranks 70. Before him are Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), Patrick Gordon (1635), Douglas Bader (1910), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Thomas Gage (1719), and Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892). After him are Charles Warren (1840), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), Christopher Cradock (1862), Edward Braddock (1695), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), and Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436).

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