Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff
United States admiral
Died when: 81 years 358 days (983 months)Star Sign: Leo
Rear Admiral Gilbert Jonathan Rowcliff (July 22, 1881 – July 14, 1963) was an officer of the United States Navy during the First World War and the Second World War.
After early service in the Far East, he specialised in gunnery, serving in that capacity on many US Navy capital ships.
During World War I he served with the US Naval Force sent to join the British Grand Fleet.After the war he took command of multiple heavy units of the US fleet, before being appointed Judge Advocate General of the Navy in 1936.
Thereafter he commanded various cruiser squadrons of the Atlantic Fleet before his retirement at the end of World War II.
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