# Dymock Watson

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{{Short description|Royal Navy vice-admiral}}
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{{Infobox military person
|honorific_prefix = [Vice-Admiral](/source/Vice-admiral_(Royal_Navy))
|name = Sir Dymock Watson
|honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE|DL}}
|birth_date=5 April 1904<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who of Southern Africa |date=1959 |publisher=Ken Donaldson (Pty.) Limited |page=666 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8h0UAAAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref>
|death_date=3 February 1988 (aged 84)
|birth_place= [Farnham](/source/Farnham), Surrey
|death_place= Brecknock, Powys, Wales
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
|service_years= 1918–1961
|rank= [Vice-Admiral](/source/Vice_Admiral_(Royal_Navy))
|commands={{HMS|Illustrious|87|6}}<br/>[South Atlantic and South America Station](/source/South_Atlantic_Station)
|branch=23px [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy)
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|battles=[World War II](/source/World_War_II)
|awards= [Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath](/source/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath)<br/>[Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire)
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[Vice-Admiral](/source/Vice_Admiral_(Royal_Navy)) '''Sir Robert Dymock Watson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE|DL}} (5 April 1904 – 3 February 1988) was a [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) officer who went on to be [Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station](/source/South_Atlantic_Station).

==Naval career==
Watson joined the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) in 1918.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WATSON5.shtml Sir Robert Dymock Watson] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> He served in [World War II](/source/World_War_II) as Assistant Director of Plans on the Joint Planning Staff from 1944.<ref name=lh/> After the War, he was appointed to the [1st Destroyer Flotilla](/source/1st_Destroyer_Flotilla) in the [Mediterranean Fleet](/source/Mediterranean_Fleet) and then, in 1950, became Director of Plans at the [Admiralty](/source/British_Admiralty).<ref name=lh/> He went on to be [Commanding Officer](/source/Commanding_Officer) of the [aircraft carrier](/source/aircraft_carrier) {{HMS|Illustrious|87|6}} in 1953 and Flag Officer, Flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1954.<ref name=lh/> He was made [Fourth Sea Lord](/source/Fourth_Sea_Lord) and Chief of Supplies and Transport in 1955 and [Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station](/source/South_Atlantic_Station) in 1958.<ref name=lh/> He made an official visit to [Ladysmith](/source/Ladysmith%2C_KwaZulu-Natal)<ref>[http://www.naval-review.co.uk/issues/1959-4.pdf Naval Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, October, 1959, p. 473]</ref> before retiring in 1961.<ref name=lh/>

He lived at Trebinshwyn in [Brecon](/source/Brecon).<ref>[http://www.william1.co.uk/t43.htm Tudor 43]</ref>

==Personal life==
His grandson is the actor and comedian [Humphrey Ker](/source/Humphrey_Ker), who based his 2011 [Edinburgh Fringe](/source/Edinburgh_Fringe) show ''Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!'' on Watson's exploits in the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web |title=Humphrey Ker Is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher! Upstairs at the Three and Ten, Brighton, June 16 |url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/stage/9085468.humphrey-ker-is-dymock-watson-nazi-smasher-upstairs-at-the-three-and-ten-brighton-june-16/ |website=[The Argus](/source/The_Argus_(Brighton)) |access-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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{{succession box | title=[Fourth Sea Lord](/source/Fourth_Sea_Lord) | before=[Sir Frederick Parham](/source/Frederick_Parham) | after=[Sir Gordon Hubback](/source/Gordon_Hubback) | years=1955&ndash;1958}}
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{{s-bef | before=[Sir Geoffrey Robson](/source/Geoffrey_Robson)}}
{{s-ttl | title=[Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station](/source/South_Atlantic_Station) | years=1958&ndash;1960}}
{{s-aft | after=[Sir Nicholas Copeman](/source/Nicholas_Copeman)}}
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Category:1904 births
Category:1988 deaths
Category:Royal Navy officers of World War II
Category:Military personnel from Surrey
Category:Royal Navy vice admirals
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Lords of the Admiralty

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