Ernest Archer (Royal Navy officer)
{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1891–1958)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = Admiral
| name = Sir Ernest Archer
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KCB|CBE}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1891|09|14|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1958|12|17|1891|09|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Dover, Kent, England
| death_place = Winchester, Hampshire, England
| nickname =
| allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch = {{navy|United Kingdom}}
| serviceyears = 1904–1950
| rank = Admiral
| unit =
| commands = HMS Revenge
Royal Navy Barracks at Portsmouth
Flag Officer, Gibraltar
Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England, Northern Ireland
| battles = World War I
World War II
| awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
| relations =
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Admiral Sir Ernest Russell Archer, KCB, CBE (14 September 1891 – 17 December 1958) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Naval career
Archer joined the Royal Navy in 1904.{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/ARCHER1.shtml|title=Archer, Ernest|publisher= Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610040052/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/ARCHER1.shtml |archive-date=10 June 2009 |url-status=dead}} He served in World War I in destroyers. He also served in World War II as Captain of the battleship {{HMS|Revenge|06|6}} from 1939: in this capacity he led the transport of the UK's gold bullion to Canada in July 1940.[http://www.defence.gov.au/sydneyii/SUBM/SUBM.001.0323.pdf How Britain's wealth went West by Leland Stowe (1963)] He continued his war service as Commander of the Royal Navy Barracks at Portsmouth from 1941, as Senior Naval Officer in North Russia from 1943 and then as Head of the Joint Services Mission to Moscow from 1944. After the War he became Flag Officer, Gibraltar. He was promoted to vice-admiral on 16 May 1947,{{London Gazette|issue=37984|page=2673|date=13 June 1947}} and appointed Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1948[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf Listing compiled by historian Colin Mackie] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |date=15 March 2012 }} and retired in 1950.
Family
In 1917 he married Margaret Elizabeth Hope Bayly.{{Cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=233 |title=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904-1945 |access-date=16 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318212217/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=233 |archive-date=18 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Royal Navy admirals of World War II
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire