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Doveton Sturdee
Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee
,
1859
–
1925
, was a
British
admiral
. He entered the
Royal Navy
in
1871
and rose to become Chief of War Staff at the Admiralty on the outbreak of
World War I
. In December
1914
, he decisively defeated the German squadron under Graf
Maximilian von Spee
at the
Battle of the Falkland Islands
, for which he was made a baronet. Sturdee commanded a squadron at the
Battle of Jutland
in
1916
, became an admiral in
1917
, and was made Admiral of the Fleet in
1921
.
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