{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1895–1980)}} {{Distinguish|Henry Strong McCall|Henry McCall (baseball)|Henry MacCall}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Admiral |name= Sir Henry McCall |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|KCVO|KBE|CB|DSO}} |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|1895|6|11|df=y}} |birth_place= Largs, Scotland |death_date= {{death date and age|1980|3|23|1895|6|11|df=y}} |death_place= Wonston, England |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Navy |service_years= 1908–1953 |rank= Admiral |service_number= |unit= |commands= Reserve Fleet (1951–1953)<br/>Destroyers in the Mediterranean Fleet (1949–1950)<br/>{{HMS|Howe|32|6}} (1944–1946)<br/>{{HMS|Dido|37|6}} (1940–1942)<br/>{{HMS|Achates|H12|6}} (1932–1934) |battles= First World War<br/>Second World War |awards= Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order<br/>Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Companion of the Order of the Bath<br/>Distinguished Service Order<br/>Mentioned in Despatches<br/>Legion of Merit (United States) |relations= |other_work= }} Admiral '''Sir Henry William Urquhart McCall''' (11 June 1895 – 23 March 1980) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet from 1951 until his retirement in 1953.
==Naval career== McCall joined the Royal Navy as midshipman in the cruiser {{HMS|Hyacinth|1898|6}} at the Cape of Good Hope in 1908.<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MCCALL.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021070810/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MCCALL.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 October 2012 |title=McCall, Sir Henry William Urquhart |publisher=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|accessdate=27 June 2020}}</ref> He served in the First World War as sub-lieutenant in the steamship HMS ''Daffodil'' from 1915, as Executive Officer in the destroyer {{HMS|Nepean|1916|6}} in the Grand Fleet from 1916 and as First Lieutenant in the destroyer {{HMS|Westcott|D47|6}} in the Grand Fleet from 1918.<ref name=lh/> He was present at the Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919.<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030012136 Imperial War Museum]</ref> He became commanding officer of the destroyer {{HMS|Achates|H12|6}} in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1932 and naval attaché at Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1938.<ref name=lh/>
McCall served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the cruiser {{HMS|Dido|37|6}} from 1940, as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Percy Noble who was Head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington, D.C., from 1943, and as commanding officer of the battleship {{HMS|Howe|32|6}} in South East Asia in 1944.<ref name=lh/>
McCall became Senior British Naval Officer in the Middle East in 1946, Flag Officer, Destroyers, in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1949 and Vice Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet 1950,<ref name=lh/> before retiring with the rank of admiral on 15 September 1953.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40052|page=7034|date=29 December 1953}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef | before=Sir Robin Bridge}} {{s-ttl | title=Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Fleet | years=1951–1953}} {{s-aft | after=Sir Ian Campbell}} {{s-end}}
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