Rear-Admiral William Moss Landymore, OBE, CD was a Canadian naval officer.
20 Facts About William Landymore
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William Landymore was promoted through the ranks eventually becoming the first Commander of Maritime Command.
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William Landymore became embroiled in a public feud with the Minister of National Defence following the Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces and resigned as a result.
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William Landymore was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy as a midshipman on 1 May 1937 and promoted to acting sub-lieutenant on 1 March 1939.
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William Landymore served on convoy escort missions in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans, in the Second World War.
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William Landymore was promoted to acting lieutenant commander on 5 June 1944.
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William Landymore was transferred to Naval Service Headquarters in Ottawa in 1944, as Director of Warfare and Training.
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William Landymore was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-commander on 1 May 1947 and served as gunnery officer aboard HMCS Uganda, where he earned a Mention in Despatches.
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William Landymore was then stationed as staff gunnery officer at Naval Service Headquarters in Ottawa.
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William Landymore was promoted to acting captain on 14 June 1952.
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William Landymore commanded Iroquois for the duration of the Korean War from 21 October 1951 to 31 October 1953.
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William Landymore was promoted to the substantive rank of captain on 1 January 1953, and was posted to a variety of stations throughout the remainder of the 1950s, including the position of Commander Canadian Destroyers Far East when he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
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William Landymore was promoted to commodore on 1 October 1959 and served as chief of staff to the Flag Officer Atlantic Coast, until 1962.
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William Landymore was promoted to rear-admiral on 1 November 1962 and served as Flag Officer Pacific Coast, from 1962 to 1964 and then as Flag Officer Atlantic Coast from 1964 to 1966.
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In January 1966 William Landymore was appointed the first Commander of Maritime Command, and thus commander of all naval forces, as the position of Chief of the Naval Staff had been abolished in 1964.
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William Landymore became embroiled in "a bitter public disagreement" with the Minister of National Defence over the unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force, to form the Canadian Armed Forces, and resigned from the RCN on 19 July 1966.
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William Landymore was awarded an MID in the London Gazette of 1 January 1946 and Canada Gazette of 5 January, in recognition of his service to Uganda.
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William Landymore was awarded the Naval General Service Medal with Palestine bar for his service to Emerald for training during his Palestine campaign service in 1937.
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William Landymore was appointed an OBE and an MID for his Korean War service as commanding officer of Iroquois.
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William Landymore is a 2010 induction to the Wall of Honour at the Royal Military College of Canada.