Charles Woodhouse
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Admiral Sir Charles Henry Lawence Woodhouse KCB (1893–1978). Captained HMS Ajax in the Battle of the River Plate 1939, for which he was knighted.
He later assumed command of HMS Howe. Subsequently he was C-in-C East Indies Station, and retired in 1950.
In the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate, Woodhouse was played by Ian Hunter.
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Possible Born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England (Birth record ref: Mar 1894 7b 18)
