John Alfred Moreton

John Alfred Moreton

Captain John Alfred Moreton, CMG, DSO, Royal Navy was an officer of the Royal Navy active in the First World War. Promoted to Captain on 1 January, 1916 he commanded the monitors "General Wolfe" and "Erebus". He took a leading rôle in the British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19 as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. For a short period of time in November, 1919 he was Military Governor of the Latvian city of Riga.


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