Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC".
Cunningham in 1943
The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, where Cunningham took a sub-lieutenants' course
Distinguished Service Order
The battlecruiser HMS Hood, Cunningham's flagship as second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
Admiral of the Fleet is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy, formally established in 1688. The five-star NATO rank code is OF-10, equivalent to a field marshal in the British Army or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Apart from honorary appointments, no new admirals of the fleet have been named since 1995, and no honorary appointments have been made since 2014.
King George VI and Admiral Bruce Fraser aboard HMS Duke of York at Scapa Flow, August 1943
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