Admiral Sir CHARLES EDWARD KENNEDY-PURVIS
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
Date of Death
Died 26 May 1946
Age 62 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Commander of the Bath
- Additional Info Son of Capt. Charles Kennedy Kennedy-Purvis and of Celia Kennedy-Purvis (nee Lloyd); husband of Lady Kennedy-Purvis (nee Conquest), of Edgell, Angus. President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Vice-Admiral Commanding R.N. War College, 1938-40; Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies 1940-42; a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy First Sea Lord from 1942.
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