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Admiral Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon Madden KCB CBE (1895–1964) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. ==Naval career== Madden joined the Royal Navy in 1908.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in World War I as well as World War II.〔 During the latter War he commanded the light cruiser HMS ''Birmingham'' from 1941.〔 He then became Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord in 1942: he also served as head of the Admiralty Commission and Warrant Branch in which capacity he had the critical role of deciding who received the command of each ship in the Navy.〔(HMS Hurworth:Life Aboard )〕 He returned to sea as Commander of the battleship HMS ''Anson'' in 1944.〔 After the War he was appointed Deputy Controller of the Navy and Director of Naval Equipment and then, in 1948 he was made Flag Officer commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron and Flag Officer Second in Command for the Far East Station.〔 In that capacity he became involved in the Amethyst Incident on the Yangtze River in China in 1949.〔 He was appointed Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1950 and then became Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1953. He retired in 1956.〔 In retirement he became Chairman of the ''Association of Retired Naval Officers''.〔(The White Ensign Association ) Naval Review, Vol XLIX, No 3, July 1961〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Madden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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