Rollo Mainguy

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Vice-Admiral Edmond Rollo Mainguy, OBE, CD, RCN (11 May 1901 - 29 April 1979) was a Canadian naval officer and a post-war Chief of the Naval Staff.

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1901 and attended the Royal Naval College of Canada during World War I. With the start of World War II he took command of HMCS Assiniboine and then HMCS Ottawa before being promoted to Captain (N) and taking overall command of RCN destroyers in Halifax in 1941. In 1942 he was appointed acting Commodore and took command of RCN destroyers in Newfoundland, quickly followed by an appointment to Ottawa as Chief of Naval Personnel. He returned to active duty as the commanding officer of HMCS Uganda in 1944. As a part of British Pacific Fleet Uganda took part in the Okinawa campaign before being controversially recalled back to Canada. In the post-war years Mainguy appointed Flag Officer Pacific Coast in 1946, Flag Officer Atlantic Coast in 1948, and was the head of the commission that investigated the RCN insubordination incidents of 1949 before becoming Chief of the Naval Staff in 1951. He retired from the RCN in 1956 as a Vice-Admiral. He died in 1979.