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Geoffrey Layton

British Royal Navy officer ()

AdmiralSir Geoffrey Layton, GBE, KCB, KCMG, DSO (20 April – 4 September ) was a Royal Navy officer. He was in command of the submarine HMS&#;E13 when, under attack from German vessels, it ran aground off the Danish coast during the First World War.

Despite this incident, he rose to senior command in the Second World War and retired in His final appointment had been as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.

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Early life and career

Layton was the son of a Liverpool solicitor, George Layton, and was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy.[1] He joined the Royal Navy as a naval cadet on 15 May on HMS Britannia. Following this he served as a midshipman aboard cruisers in the English Channel and off the south coast of the United States.

Layton took his lieutenant's course and was promoted to that rank on 30 November He then he joined the submarine branch of the navy, in which he had his first comman Geoff Layton: books, biography, latest update - JOKE