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Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO & Two Bars (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
Cunningham, Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), naval officer, was born at 42 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, on 7 January 1883, the third of the five children of Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909), then a professor of anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and his wife, Elizabeth Cumming (d. 1926), daughter of the Revd Andrew Browne of Beith, Ayrshire.
14 de abr. de 2019 · Andrew Cunningham (1883–1963) was a legendary admiral of the Royal Navy. A bust of Admiral Cunningham is permanently displayed in Trafalgar Square in London. Cunningham is most famous for his role in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. With Italy as Germany’s ally, the Axis powers might well have expected to be able to dominate ...
Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean.
Andrew Cunningham nació en Rathmines, Condado de Dublín el 7 de enero de 1883, 2 el tercero de cinco hijos del profesor Daniel Cunningham y de su esposa Elizabeth Cumming Browne, ambos de origen escocés. 3 Él mismo describió a sus padres como «grandes intelectuales y de tradición clerical », ya que ambos abuelos habían sido clérigos.
Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham By Paul Bevand, MBE Updated 06-May-2014. Andrew Browne Cunningham is probably the most successful and well-known of the Admirals who commanded from aboard H.M.S. Hood. He served in her from 1937 to 1938.
11 de may. de 2023 · Michael Simpson (2004) A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: a twentieth-century naval leader (Frank Cass). John Winton (1998) Cunningham: the greatest admiral since Nelson (John Murray). Read the second part of Graham Goodlad’s detailed commentary on the battle that is widely regarded as Cunningham’s masterpiece, here.
