Percival Hall Thompson

Admiral Percival Henry HallThompson CB, CMG was a Royal Navy officer who played a key role in the development of the New Zealand Naval Forces and also served in the First World War as commander of the HMS160Philomel. He went on to be First Naval Member amp Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.

HallThompson was born Percival Henry Hall Thompson, the son of Henry Hall Thompson and his wife, Agnes Spooner, onMay 1874 in Eling, Hampshire. Educated at a private school, he joined the Royal Navy in 1887 as a midshipman. He was posted to the training ship HMS Britannia as a cadet.

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