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main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life 2 early naval career 3 second world war toggle second world war subsection 3 1 george medal 3 2 siege of tobruk 4 post war 5 parliamentary career 6 other interests 7 awards and honours 8 family life 9 see also 10 references 11 external links toggle the table of contents morgan morgan giles 2 languages مصرى polski edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia royal navy rear admiral 1914 2013 rear admiral sir morgan morgan giles dso obe gm dl born 1914 06 19 19 june 1914 newton abbot devon england died 4 may 2013 2013 05 04 aged 98 bristol england military career allegiance united kingdom branch british navy service years 1933 1964 rank rear admiral commands royal naval college greenwich hms belfast royal navy torpedo school dartmouth training squadron hms chieftain conflicts second world war norwegian campaign siege of tobruk action of 1 november 1944 awards knight bachelor distinguished service order officer of the order of the british empire george medal mentioned in despatches 4 rear admiral sir morgan charles morgan giles dso obe gm dl 19 june 1914 4 may 2013 was a royal navy officer decorated during the second world war who later served as a conservative member of parliament at the time of his death he was the oldest living former member of the house of commons early life edit the eldest son of francis charles morgan giles obe 1 naval architect and yacht designer and ivy constance morgan giles née carus wilson morgan giles childhood was spent idyllically messing around with boats at teignmouth where his father had his boatyard the family lived across the river at shaldon necessitating a short row across the teign river several times a day morgan giles said that he could row before he could walk 2 morgan giles 2 first memory was of his father on sick leave from the royal navy with petrol poisoning during the first world war building a little dinghy for his young son due to the war there was a shortage of good wood and legend has it that fc morgan giles could not find quite what he wanted to finish her off his wife came home one day to find the best table in the house had mysteriously vanished but the little boat had a new mahogany transom when the boat was completed she was called pip emma and is now in the national maritime museum cornwall in falmouth the three year old morgan was placed in her and launched out to sea this started off his lifelong passion for boats and the sea 2 as a child morgan giles family would spend their easter holidays at swallerton gate on dartmoor 2 in 1928 when he was 14 he managed to save enough pocket money to buy a douglas flat twin motorbike for 2 which was also 14 years old in addition to this form of transport he was lent a little motor boat one of the first in board motor boats originally designed and built by his father called shush also in the national maritime museum cornwall in which he spent nearly every waking hour buzzing about on the river his father built a succession of sailing boats for morgan and his brothers and sister to race which they did with great success at regattas up and down the coast of devon and cornwall 2 morgan giles was educated at clifton college 3 at clifton he demonstrated his ability to work the system as he wanted to crew for his father in a sailing race but was told that instead he must attend a cricket match between clifton college and tonbridge school so he took the train to london passed through the turnstile at lord s cricket ground straight in round and out again and took the train down to ryde on the isle of wight where father and son entered the race and won this was the prince of wales cup one of the most prestigious national dinghy races of the year early naval career edit morgan giles joined the china fleet as a midshipman at 18 in 1932 serving on a variety of ships including yangtze river patrol boats he first sailed in the training cruiser hms frobisher to the west indies and the baltic he was then appointed to the australian destroyer hmas voyager before serving in hms cumberland suffolk and cornwall on the china station before returning home to join the torpedo school at hms vernon he was promoted to torpedo specialist in 1938 second world war edit during the second world war morgan giles served on hms arethusa during the norwegian campaign in 1940 hms emerald escorting atlantic convoys and took part in the battle of oran in 1941 he was sent to the suez canal where he was in charge of the anti magnetic mine campaign in april of that year he acted as a liaison with the royal air force using wellington bombers as torpedo bombers during his time with no 201 group raf at dekheila he survived three serious aeroplane crashes one of which he was the sole survivor following a period of staff training at the royal naval college greenwich morgan giles was then sent to the far east as staff officer operations of force w there he accepted the japanese surrender of thailand george medal edit morgan giles was awarded the george medal for gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty during bomb and mine disposal work while serving at hms nile the naval base at ras el tin point alexandria morgan giles had been sent to help clear the ships from the harbour as quickly as possible because they were loaded with explosive and ammunition and although unknown at the time mustard gas whilst on board hms zetland helping to get move the ship out of the harbour to minimise losses a bomb struck a nearby ammunition ship and he was hurled the length of the deck but was uninjured amongst the wreckage and fire he was nevertheless able to climb onto an american liberty ship ss lyman abbott that was blocking the harbour exit once aboard he found not a single man alive and no power therefore no method of weighing her anchor he and two other men that had joined him were therefore forced to tamp explosive into the anchor chain light the fuse and take cover the explosion severed the cable and they eventually managed to get the ship towed out of the way it emerged after the war that lyman abbott had also had mustard gas on board had lyman abbott been hit whilst still inside bari s harbour the casualties from the mustard gas would likely have been extensive 2 siege of tobruk edit morgan giles later served with the tobruk garrison in tobruk during the siege of tobruk where he swam a mine out of the harbour before being made the liaison officer in le fantasque and after that the italian destroyer legionario as an acting lieutenant commander he joined sir fitzroy maclean s mission to yugoslavia in october 1943 at his particular request initially the admiralty wanted to send him elsewhere so fitzroy had to appeal to the top you said i could have anyone i want for this mission he asked winston churchill and i want morgan giles the prime minister agreed over ruled the second sea lord and morgan joined fitzroy in cairo and was promoted to acting lieutenant commander morgan giles became the senior naval officer based in vis in charge of running boats with guns and supplies across the adriatic from italy to the dalmatian islands in support of tito s partisans citation needed while aboard wheatland he commanded a royal navy force off the kvarner gulf pag island in action of 1 november 1944 against the kriegsmarine 4 post war edit from 1945 to 1948 morgan giles served in ceylon cape town england and trieste in 1950 he became the captain of hms chieftain then stationed in malta in 1953 he was promoted to chief of naval intelligence far east he became captain d of the dartmouth training squadron in 1957 then moved to hms vernon torpedo school in 1958 he took command as captain of hms belfast then flagship of the far east fleet in 1961 he was promoted to rear admiral in 1963 the same year he became president of royal naval college greenwich he left the royal navy in january 1964 to stand for parliament parliamentary career edit retiring from the royal navy in january 1964 morgan giles stood for parliament for the conservative party in his local constituency of winchester at a by election following the resignation of peter smithers who had been appointed to the council of europe and was elected a member of parliament on 14 may 1964 he is known to have regarded being an mp as a retirement occupation 5 his house of commons speeches were often greeted by affectionate labour party cries of send a gunboat because of the impression that he gave of steaming into action with all guns blazing on behalf of his constituency and also in loyal protection of any perceived threat to the services charles moore writing in the spectator regarded his pro bono publico no bloody panico utterance to stop a row over europe as his best contribution to parliament 6 a sentence also used by norman tebbit about the in fighting in the conservative party during the 2016 united kingdom european union membership referendum 7 once while still in hospital after a riding accident morgan giles wrote to james callaghan the then prime minister of the cold silent teeth clenched fury among servicemen about a pay review board which did not seem to know in blunt nautical language whether it s on its arse or elbow 5 he complained that wrens only received threepence extra a day after four years good service that is not much to give a girl for saying yes sir all day and then no sir all night yet he opposed wrens serving on warships because woman s eternal role is to create life and nurture it a fighting man must be prepared to kill women do wonderful things for men but combat duty to defend us should not be one of them vive la difference 5 he served in the house of commons until 1979 when he stood down and was succeeded by john browne other interests edit in 1971 hearing that his beloved hms belfast was due to be scrapped morgan giles started operation sea horse which had the object of forming the hms belfast trust and saving the belfast by transforming her into a museum the belfast became part of the imperial war museum in 1978 morgan giles was prime warden of the worshipful company of shipwrights 1987 88 he had farming interests in hampshire and new south wales awards and honours edit morgan giles was mentioned in despatches once in 1942 twice in 1944 and once more in 1945 he received the george medal in 1941 was appointed a member of the order of the british empire in 1944 and advanced to an officer of the order of the british empire in 1944 and was awarded a distinguished service order in 1945 morgan giles was appointed a knight bachelor in the 1985 new year honours list for political services 8 and was made deputy lieutenant of hampshire in 1983 he also was awarded the order of the partisan star yugoslavia by josip broz tito family life edit morgan giles married twice both wives predeceasing him and had six children by his first wife pamela bushell daughter of p h bushell of darling point sydney whom he married in 1946 he married secondly in 1968 marigold katherine steel daughter of dr percy lowe obe a british scientist and his wife the former dorothy mead waldo he wrote an autobiography entitled the unforgiving minute 2 his son rodney charles howard morgan giles married sarah jennifer third daughter of sir hereward wake 14th baronet they have four sons and a daughter morgan giles s second daughter melita married victor lampson the third baron killearn 9 morgan giles died aged 98 on 4 may 2013 10 see also edit barons killearn wake baronets bolitho family references edit fc morgan giles and the shipyard morgan giles yacht register 2008 archived from the original on 28 december 2010 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 morgan giles morgan 2002 the unforgiving minute clarendon press clifton college register 1862 to 1947 bristol j w arrowsmith 1948 p 426 o hara vincent p 2004 the german fleet at war 1939 1945 annapolis maryland naval institute press pp 179 181 isbn 978 1591146513 1 2 3 rear admiral sir morgan morgan giles the sunday telegraph 5 may 2013 issn 0307 1235 oclc 49632006 retrieved 14 july 2026 moore charles 13 may 2013 the spectator s notes the spectator retrieved 31 march 2016 dead link tebbit norman 31 march 2016 if david cameron can t stop the tory fighting he ll clear jeremy corbyn s path to downing street the daily telegraph retrieved 14 july 2026 no 49969 the london gazette supplement 10 june 1948 p 2 rhodes michael 4 may 2013 wilbur lampson peerage news retrieved 14 july 2026 self published source dalyell tam 7 may 2013 rear admiral sir morgan morgan giles naval officer who went on to become an mp the independent retrieved 14 july 2026 external links edit hansard 1803 2005 contributions in parliament by morgan morgan giles debrett s people of today link removed military offices preceded by sir alexander gordon lennox president royal naval college greenwich 1962 1964 succeeded by sir ian mcgeoch parliament of the united kingdom preceded by peter smithers member of parliament for winchester 1964 1979 succeeded by john browne authority control databases people uk parliament retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title morgan_morgan giles oldid 1372400302 categories 1914 births 2013 deaths people educated at clifton college royal navy rear admirals royal navy officers of world war ii companions of the distinguished service order officers of the order of the british 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