Vice Admiral Sir Henry Mackay Burrell (13 August 1904 – 9 February 1988) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He served as Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) from 1959 to 1962. Born in Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Burrell entered the Royal Australian Naval College in 1918 as a thirteen-year-old cadet. His first posting at sea was aboard the cruiser HMAS Sydney. During the 1920s and 1930s, Burrell served a number of years on exchange with the Royal Navy, specialising as a navigator. Following the outbreak of World War II, he filled a key liaison post with the US Navy, and later saw action as commander of the destroyer HMAS Norman, earning a mention in despatches.
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| - Vice Admiral Sir Henry Mackay Burrell (13 August 1904 – 9 February 1988) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He served as Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) from 1959 to 1962. Born in Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Burrell entered the Royal Australian Naval College in 1918 as a thirteen-year-old cadet. His first posting at sea was aboard the cruiser HMAS Sydney. During the 1920s and 1930s, Burrell served a number of years on exchange with the Royal Navy, specialising as a navigator. Following the outbreak of World War II, he filled a key liaison post with the US Navy, and later saw action as commander of the destroyer HMAS Norman, earning a mention in despatches.
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| - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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| - Vice Admiral Henry Burrell
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| - Wentworth Falls, New South Wales
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| - Spanish Civil War
- World War II
* Indian Ocean theatre
* Battle of Madagascar
* Mediterranean theatre
* Operation Vigorous
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| - Vice Admiral Sir Roy Dowling
- Rear Admiral David Harries
- Rear Admiral Roy Dowling
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| - 1955(xsd:integer)
- 1958(xsd:integer)
- 1959(xsd:integer)
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| - Rear Admiral Galfrey Gatacre
- Vice Admiral Sir Hastings Harrington
- Rear Admiral David Harries
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| - Commander Burrell on finding survivors of HMAS Perth in a camp at Sendai, Japan
- Henry Burrell on naval air power
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| - We will need a Navy as long as Australia remains an island—and the best place to fight, if unhappily that should be required, is as far from Australia as possible.
- The news was the greatest thrill for us all ... My words cannot
express their joy at deliverance to say nothing of ours.
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| - Vice Admiral Sir Henry Mackay Burrell (13 August 1904 – 9 February 1988) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He served as Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) from 1959 to 1962. Born in Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Burrell entered the Royal Australian Naval College in 1918 as a thirteen-year-old cadet. His first posting at sea was aboard the cruiser HMAS Sydney. During the 1920s and 1930s, Burrell served a number of years on exchange with the Royal Navy, specialising as a navigator. Following the outbreak of World War II, he filled a key liaison post with the US Navy, and later saw action as commander of the destroyer HMAS Norman, earning a mention in despatches. Promoted captain in 1946, Burrell played a major role in the formation of the RAN's Fleet Air Arm, before commanding the flagship HMAS Australia in 1948–49. He captained the light aircraft carrier HMAS Vengeance in 1953–54, and was twice appointed Flag Officer of the Australian Fleet, in 1955 and 1958. As CNS in 1959, Burrell began a major program of acquisitions for the Navy, including new helicopters, minesweepers, submarines and guided missile destroyers. He was credited with helping to reverse a plan by the government to dismantle the Fleet Air Arm. Knighted in 1960, Burrell retired to his farm near Canberra in 1962 and published his memoirs, Mermaids Do Exist, in 1986. He died two years later, aged eighty-three.
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