Edmund Radcliffe Pears

Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Radcliffe Pears, KBE, CB (25 April 1862 - 21 June 1941) was a British Royal Navy officer, who served in the First World War.

Naval service

He was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS Perseus in early 1901, when the ship was commissioned to form part of the East Indies fleet.[1] In September 1901 he was in charge when she prevented the landing of Turkish troops at Kuwait.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 8 March 1901. (36397), p. 10.
  2. ↑ "Great Britain and Turkey: Position in the Persian Gulf: Landing of Turkish Troops Prevented". The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 September 1902, p. 7. Retrieved 21 June 2012.