Firth, Charles Leslie

Date of birth:: May 21st, 1900 (Buenos Ayres, Argentine)
Date of death:: July 8th, 1971
Nationality:: British

Biography

Promotions:
1 November 1918: Midshipman
15 January 1921: Sub-Lieutenant
15 April 1922: Lieutenant
15 April 1930: Lieutenant Commander
30 June 1935: Commander
April 1941: Acting Captain
30 June 1941: Captain
7 July 1950: Retired

Units:
1918: HMS Tiger
1919: HMAS Sydney
1919: HMAS Australia
1922: HMS Victoria and Albert
1923: HMS Malaya
1925-1926: Signal School, Portsmouth
1937: Signal Officer, HMS Campbell
1928: Flag Lieutenant to Commodore Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas
1930: HMS Victory
1931: Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Rear-Admiral Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet
1934: HMS Victory
1935: Commanding Officer, HMS Broke
1936: Commanding Officer, HMS Grafton
1938: Signal Department, Admiralty
1940: Commanding Officer, HMS Imogen
1940: Commanding Officer, HMS Jackal
1941: Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral R.L. Burnett
1941: Deputy Director Signal Department
1943: Commanding Officer, HMS Troubridge Captain 24th Destroyer Flotilla
1944: Deputy Director Signal Division
1946: Commanding Officer, HMS Mercury
1948: Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

Member of the Royal Victorian Order

Rank:: Commander
Unit:: HMS Grafton (H89), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: February 1st, 1937

For services rendered as Commanding Officer HMS Grafton, escort ship to the Royal Yacht during the Prince of Wales' cruise of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean in 1936

Mentioned in Dispatches

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Captain
Unit:: HMS Imogen (D44), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: January 1st, 1941

For outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness, whilst commanding HMS Imogen and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld.

Mentioned in Dispatches

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Commander
Unit:: HMS Imogen (D44), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: March 21st, 1941

For good services and devotion to duty whilst commanding HMS Imogen.

Krzyz Walecznych

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Captain
Unit:: HMS Imogen (D44), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: October 21st, 1941
Awarded for:: Operation Dynamo

"In recognition of services during the withdrawal of Polish Forces from France in 1940."

Mentioned in Dispatches

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Captain
Unit:: HMS Troubridge (R00), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: January 18th, 1944

For gallant and distinguished services whilst in command of HMS Troubridge in operations in the Mediterranean from the time of the entry of Italy into the war until the surrender of the Italian fleet.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Captain
Unit:: HMS Troubridge (R00), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: June 27th, 1944

For gallantry, enterprise and skill in successful operations against enemy shipping and shore targets in the Adriatic whilst commanding HMS Troubridge.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Captain
Unit:: HMS Troubridge (R00), Royal Navy
Awarded on:: March 13th, 1945

For skill, determination and bravery in anti-U-boat operations whilst commanding HMS Troubridge when U.407 was sunk in the Aegean on 19 September, 1944.

2nd award received as bar