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Admiral Sir Michael Henry Hodges KCB CMG MVO (29 September 1874 – 3 November 1951) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. ==Naval career== Hodges joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS ''Britannia'' in 1887.〔(Naval medals (Captain KJ Douglas-Morris (RN) Collection) )〕 In 1899, during the Second Boer War, he was landed in South Africa as a member of HMS ''Powerful''’s Naval Brigade and sent to defend the town of Ladysmith.〔 In 1912 he became Naval Attaché in Paris.〔 He was appointed Commander of the cruiser HMS ''Sappho'' in 1905 and despatched to South Georgia to investigate the emerging whaling industry there.〔(Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events By Robert Headland, p. 237 )〕 In World War I he commanded the battlecruiser HMS ''Indomitable'' and then the new battlecruiser .〔 In 1918 he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Second in Command of the Grand Fleet.〔 After the War he was made Rear Admiral Commanding the Destroyer Flotillas of the Atlantic Fleet.〔 He became Naval Secretary in 1923,〔(Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty ) Warwick University〕 Commander of the 3rd Battle Squadron in April 1925 and Commander of the 1st Battle Squadron and Second in Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in March 1926.〔 He was Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1927 to 1930 when, having been promoted to full admiral in 1929, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet in 1930.〔(National Archives )〕 It was at this time that the Invergordon Mutiny took place when sailors of the Atlantic Fleet rioted over pay although Hodges was in the Royal Hospital Haslar at Gosport and therefore not directly involved in resolving the crisis.〔(The Invergordon Mutiny ) HMS Hood Association〕 He was relieved due to pleurisy and retired in 1932.〔 During World War II he was re-employed as Flag Officer in Charge in Trinidad, West Indies.〔 In retirement he became Chairman of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society.〔(Medical News ) British Medical Journal, 20 May 1939〕 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「Michael Hodges」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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