Charles Woodhouse
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox military person Admiral Sir Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse KCB (9 July 1893 – 23 September 1978) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Naval career
Woodhouse joined the Royal Navy in 1906.<ref name=unit>Service record at Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945</ref> He served in World War I and specialized in gunnery.<ref name=unit/> In 1935 he was appointed Assistant Director of Naval Equipment at the Admiralty.<ref name=unit/>
He captained Template:HMS in the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939.<ref name=unit/> In October 1940 he became Director of the Local Division at the Admiralty and in April 1942 he assumed command of Template:HMS.<ref name=unit/> In March 1944 he went on to be Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty.<ref name=unit/>
After the War he became Rear-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers and in 1948 he was made Commander-in-Chief, East Indies; he retired in 1950.<ref name=unit/>
In popular culture
In the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate, Woodhouse was played by Ian Hunter.
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