Francis Cromie

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Francis Newton Allen Cromie
Born	(1882-01-30)30 January 1882 Ireland
Died	31 August 1918(1918-08-31) (aged 36) Assassinated Petrograd
Buried at	Archangel Memorial Saint Petersburg
Allegiance	British Empire
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1903-1918
Rank	Lieutenant Commander, Naval attaché
Commands held	HMS E19
Battles/wars	World War I British submarine flotilla in the Baltic Boxer Uprising
Awards	CB DSO

Captain (Acting.) Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB, DSO, (30 January 1882 – 31 August 1918, Petrograd) was the commander of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic during World War I.^[1] He took part in suppressing the Boxer Uprising in Peking. He joined the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1903. In 1915 he navigated the submarine HMS E19 through Oresund into the Baltic Sea, to prey on iron ore transports from Sweden to Imperial Germany. In May 1917 he was appointed the naval attaché in Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg). On 31 August 1918 he was shot in front of the British Embassy in Petrograd when he tried to prevent a detachment of Cheka from entering and searching the embassy in an attempt to break the British intelligence network there.^[2] He is buried at the Archangel Memorial in Arkhangelsk.^[3]

References

↑ Vrakdykning Deluxe
↑ F.F. Raskolnikov. "XI". Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin – A prisoner of the British.
↑ Captain Francis Newton Cromie ( - 1918) - Find A Grave Memorial

Literature

Roy Bainton Honoured by strangers

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 23192496 LCCN: nb2002018939 GND: 128438738

Persondata
Name	Cromie, Francis
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	30 January 1882
Place of birth	Ireland
Date of death	31 August 1918
Place of death	Assassinated Petrograd

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