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Cunningham, Andrew Browne, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British And Irish History, Biographies
Cunningham, Andrew Browne, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope[hInd´hOp] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1963, British admiral.
He was later naval commander in the expedition against N Africa (1942–43), commander in chief of the Allied naval forces in the Mediterranean (1943), and first sea lord and chief of the naval staff (1943–46).
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Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (7 January 1883–12 June 1963), familiarly known as "ABC", was the most famous British admiral of World War II, winning distinction in Mediterranean battles in 1940 and 1941, then serving as First Sea Lord from 1943 to 1946.
In the same year he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Cunningham of Hyndhope, of Kirkhope, county Selkirk.
During the evacuation at the end of the Battle of Crete when Cunningham was determined that the "navy must not let the army down", when army generals feared he would lose too many ships, Cunningham famously said, "It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition".
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 Andrew Cunningham
Andrew Cunningham was born in Dublin on 7th January, 18
In 1932 Cunningham was promoted to rear admiral and commanded destroyer flotillas in the Mediterranean where he kept a close watch on the activities of Italy in Libya and Abyssinia.
Andrew Cunningham died in London on 12th June, 1963.
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A long-seasoned naval officer—he fought in the South African War and World War I—Cunningham was (1939-42) commander in the Mediterranean, which he kept open to the British.
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 Cunningham, Andrew Browne, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Cunningham, Andrew Browne, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, 1883–1963, British admiral.
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