Francis Cromie

Captain ("Acting".) Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB, DSO, (January 30, 1882 – August 31, 1918, Petrograd) was the commander of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic during World War I. [ [http://www.dykmag.net/sv/docs/b_skandinavien/dyk_skan_vrak.php?skan_id=2 Vrakdykning Deluxe] ] He took part in suppressing the Boxer Uprising in Peking. He joined the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1903. In 1915 he navigated the submarine HMS E19 through Oresund into the Baltic Sea, to prey on iron ore transports from Sweden to Imperial Germany. In May 1917 he was appointed the naval attaché in Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg).

On August 31, 1918 he was shot in front of the British Embassy in Petrograd by a group from the Cheka who were trying to break the British intelligence network there. He is buried at the Archangel Memorial in Saint Petersburg. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=&CScntry=38&GRid=12447009&GScid=2158777&page=gr Captain Francis Newton Cromie ( - 1918)] - Find A Grave Memorial]

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Literature

* Roy Bainton [http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Books_1.html "Honoured by strangers"]