Clement Moody

Admiral Sir Clement Moody, KCB (31 May 1891 – 6 July 1960) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 1945 to 1946 and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, from 1946 to 1948.

[1] He served in the First World War and, in 1935, was given command of HMS Curacoa.

[2] Moody served in the Second World War as Director of the Naval Air Division and then as second-in-command of Naval Air Stations in 1941.

[2] He was made second-in-command of Aircraft Carriers in Home Waters in 1943; in April 1944 he took part in Operation Cockpit, a bombing raid on Japanese port and oil facilities on Sabang Island (off the northern tip of Sumatra).

[3] Moody went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 15 December 1945 to 8 March 1946.