Vice Admiral Sir Ian Leslie Trower Hogg KCB, DSC & Bar (30 May 1911 – 2 March 2003) was a Royal Navy officer whose service extended from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s.
He was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Navy in 1929 as a Special Entry – or ex-public school – cadet, earning a first-class certificate on graduation from the training ship HMS Erebus.
Although the Royal Navy was able virtually to annihilate the seaborne component, which carried much equipment in local caïques, the German paratroops—though at great loss to themselves—forced the under-equipped British forces, many of whom were still in shock after being driven out of Greece, into another evacuation.
The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, was adamant that while ships were replaceable, the reputation of the Royal Navy was not, and that the evacuation of soldiers should continue to the limit.
[3] Hogg received praise for his cool, calm and cheerful demeanour and his very good advice when the force came under intensive air attack on 31 May, during which Napier was damaged in the engine room by a near miss.
Hogg stayed with the Napier as the senior staff officer to Captain Arliss, who became the commodore in command of Admiral Somerville's Eastern Fleet destroyers, based in Ceylon, until early 1944.
As the navigating and signals officer of the cruiser HMS Mauritius in August 1944, Hogg was awarded a Bar to his DSC for his outstanding zeal during prolonged and violent night actions against escorted enemy convoys close inshore near La Rochelle and the Ile d'Yeu.
It is recorded that during the war when Mauritius was refitting in Liverpool and a drink was difficult to come by, his companions would always "put Ian into bat first with the barmaid"—with invariably satisfactory results.