Clement Moody

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Admiral Sir Clement Moody, KCB (31 May 1891–6 July 1960) was a Royal Navy officer who rose to become a senior commander after World War II. He became a sub-lieutenant in 1911 and served in World War I. In the 1930s he commanded ships, including HMS Curacoa in 1935 and the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle from 1937 to 1939. In the Second World War he led naval aviation as Director of the Naval Air Division and then as deputy in charge of Naval Air Stations in 1941. In 1943 he became deputy commander of Aircraft Carriers in Home Waters, and in April 1944 he participated in Operation Cockpit, a bombing raid on Sabang Island near Sumatra. After the war, he was Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Fleet from December 1945 to March 1946, and then Commander-in-Chief of the South Atlantic from 1946 until his retirement in 1948. He was born in Frensham, Surrey, and died in Fleet, Hampshire. He received the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and was mentioned in despatches three times.