Sir Theodore John Hallett
(1878-1956), Vice-AdmiralSitter in 3 portraits
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, October 1945
NPG x168055
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, October 1945
NPG x187503
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, October 1945
NPG x187504
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Melanie Gunning
09 November 2018, 13:20
Commemorating Rememberance Sunday 2018 my Uncle Bernie Gunning wrote this about my great grandfather:
“This is my maternal grandfather, Sir Theodore John Hallett, who was a pretty cool guy. He joined the Royal Navy in the 1890s as a midshipman (my mother always said 'cabin boy'), then progressed through many ranks to emerge from WWI as a Flag Captain, and got an OBE. Through the twenties he went on to be be Captain of the Mediterranean Fleet, then Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland in 1929. He was then appointed Aide-de-Camp to the King and retired in 1933. Then he got called back up in World War II to serve as a beachmaster for the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, as a member of the expeditionary force to Narvik in Norway in 1942 and then as Director of Training for the Commandos in Inverary, Scotland. The Commandos thing put him in on a face to face basis with George VI, Winston Churchill and Montgomery - I have pictures where the four of them are together, discussing stuff. Somewhere in there, he was awarded KBE. I'm pretty proud of my Grandpa Hallett, and amazed that I missed out on the weight of his importance when I was growing up. I met him briefly: in 1956 he and my grandmother trecked out to the wilds of Northern Alberta to see us. I think they continued on to see my Uncle and his family in New Zealand on the same trip, then later that year he died. Pretty cool guy who had significant influences on both World Wars. Oh, and all those bars on his cuff? He was a Vice-Admiral. Not too shabby for a farm boy.”