Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, KCMG, CB
Conservative. Politician. Royal Navy Officer Counter-Intelligence.
1 Dec 1932 - married a 35-year-old widow, Sybil Victoria Joseph, née Grant White; they had two daughters.[3]
1928 - Promoted to Admiral.[3]
1927 - Divorced Mrs Margret Elizabeth Worthington (daughter of Sir Thomas Wardle) after the scandal, the year before.[3]
1926 - Gaunt resigned from the House of Commons, when he was cited as a co-respondent in the divorce case between Sir Richard Cruise and his wife.[3]
1924 - Promoted to Vice Admiral.[3]
1922 to 1926 (resigned) - Elected Member of Parliament for the Buckrose constituency in the east Riding of Yorkshire, replacing the Liberal Algernon Moreing.[3]
1918 - Knighted, and elected a younger brother of Trinity House.[3]
Oct 1918 - Promoted on the retired list to Rear Admiral.[3]
1918 - Employed in convoy service across the Atlantic and in June was appointed to the naval intelligence staff at the Admiralty.[3]
1916 - Appointed C.M.G (Order of St Michael and St George).[3]
7 May 1915 - RMS Lusitania was torpedoed.
27 Apr 1915 - Gaunt visited the Du Pont (13 bloodlines) munitons plant and shipped tons of pyroxyline to NYC where it was loaded onto the Lusitania. Ships manifest 3,813 40-pound contains of “cheese”, which were shipped along with 696 containers of “butter”. That these packages were not butter and cheese that is clear: Not shipped in refrigerated packages; their destination was listed as the Royal Navy’s Weapon Testing Establishment; and no one filed an insurance claim for the lost “butter and cheese”.[2]
26 Apr 1915 - Captain Guy Gaunt called Ritter Von Rettegh to his office and asked what the effect would be of sea water coming into contact with guncotton. The chemist explained there were two types of gun cotton - trinitro cellulose, which sea water would not affect, and pyroxyline, which sea water could cause to suddenly explode, as a result of chemical changes.[2] (Signed affidavit by Dr. E. W. Ritter von Rettegh a chemist employed by Captain Guy Gaunt, the British Naval Attache in Washington)
Jun 1914 - he was appointed naval attaché in Washington; his success in counteracting the effects of German propaganda in North America brought him prominence. He was appointed liaison officer with the United States of America on its entry into the war.[3]
1907 - Promoted captain, commanded the cruiser Andromeda and subsequently the cruisers Niobe and Challenger (on the Australia Station) and the battleships Majestic and Thunderer.[3]
1904 - Married a widow, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Worthington, daughter of Sir Thomas Wardle (in Hongkong).[3]
In June 1901 he was promoted commander. He served in the battleship Vengeance in China during the Russo-Japanese war and later in Cressy and Glory.[3]
1897 - Served on the H.M.S. Porpoise, he commanded the British Consulate at Apia, Samoa, during a rebel attack, and in subsequent uprisings raised and commanded a native force, dubbed ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’, and was mentioned in dispatches.[3]
Feb 1896, Gaunt became navigating lieutenant of the gun vessel Swift, then on the China Station, and took part in operations in the Philippines in 1897.
Oct 1895, he joined the Royal Navy under the provisions of a special Order-in-Council.[3]
His father could only afford to send him to H.M.S. Worcester, the training ship for officers of the merchant navy; he soon transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve and was rated a midshipman on 17 December 1886.[3]
1881 to 1882 - A boarder at Melbourne Grammar, he was intended for the law but pleaded to go to sea.[3]
Died 18 May 1953. No Children.
Note: Cecil Robert Gaunt (1863-1938), army officer, Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt (1865-1940) and Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt (1869-1953), admirals.[3]
[2] - FYI - James Perloff.com - False Flag at Sea.
[3] - Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt Biography
[4] - FYI - Royal Navy 1914 to 1918 Ship History
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