1. Mark Pizey was promoted to lieutenant commander on 15 December 1928.
13 Facts About Mark Pizey
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Mark Pizey was promoted to commander on 31 December 1933.
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In December 1943, Mark Pizey was appointed Director of Operations Division for the Admiralty, commanding HMS President.
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Mark Pizey served in this capacity until the end of the war.
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Mark Pizey was promoted to rear admiral in 1948 and served as Senior Naval Liaison Officer and Chief of UK Services Liaison Staff, Australia, aboard HMS Terror.
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In October 1951, Mark Pizey replaced Vice Admiral Edward Parry as the last Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy.
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Mark Pizey was knighted with the KBE in the Coronation Honours List of 1953, and was promoted to admiral on 31 December 1954.
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Mark Pizey was honoured with the Order of the People's Army upon the state visit of Josip Broz Tito to India.
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Mark Pizey was succeeded in his post by Vice Admiral Stephen Hope Carlill in July 1955.
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Mark Pizey was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 New Year Honours, and retired in 1958.
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In 1928, Mark Pizey married Phyllis May D'Angibau.
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Sir Mark Pizey died at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset on 17 May 1993, aged 93.
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Mark Pizey's wife had died the previous month at the age of 88.