Desmond McCarthy
Sir Edward Desmond Bewley McCarthy, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station.Naval career
Promoted to captain in 1935, McCarthy served in the Second World War commanding from 1940 and from 1943, taking part in Operation Tungsten against the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944, and then becoming Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1944. After the war he was appointed Rear Admiral, Destroyers in the Mediterranean Fleet and then Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station from 1948. He retired in 1950.Personal life
In 1925, McCarthy married Agatha Kentish, daughter of Brigadier General Horace John James Kentish. They had two sons.
