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.

Pears joined the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to lieutenant on 30 June 1885.[1] He took part in the Benin Expedition of 1897, for which he was promoted to commander on 25 May 1897.[2]

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.[3] He was in charge when in September 1901 she prevented the landing of Turkish troops at Kuwait.[4] The following year he was in charge when troops from the Perseus demolished the fort at Balhaf in response to pirate activities by the locals there.[5]

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References
  1. "No. 25485". The London Gazette. 30 June 1885. p. 3002.
  2. "No. 26856". The London Gazette. 25 May 1897. p. 2929.
  3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36397). London. 8 March 1901. p. 10.
  4. "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.
  5. "Piracy in the Gulf of Aden". The Times (36868). London. 9 September 1902. p. 3.


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