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Rear Admiral Clarence "Johnny" Howard-Johnston DSO, DSC (1903–1996) was a British admiral who specialised in anti-submarine warfare during the inter-war years. Clarence Johnston's parents were American and Scottish, and both families were involved in engineering. He was brought up in Nice, France and later adopted the name Howard-Johnston, appending one of his father's forenames to his surname to distinguish himself from being the bearer of a common surname. He was known as 'Johnny', as he disliked the name Clarence.

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rdfs:comment	Rear Admiral Clarence "Johnny" Howard-Johnston DSO, DSC (1903–1996) was a British admiral who specialised in anti-submarine warfare during the inter-war years. Clarence Johnston's parents were American and Scottish, and both families were involved in engineering. He was brought up in Nice, France and later adopted the name Howard-Johnston, appending one of his father's forenames to his surname to distinguish himself from being the bearer of a common surname. He was known as 'Johnny', as he disliked the name Clarence. (en)
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has abstract	Rear Admiral Clarence "Johnny" Howard-Johnston DSO, DSC (1903–1996) was a British admiral who specialised in anti-submarine warfare during the inter-war years. Clarence Johnston's parents were American and Scottish, and both families were involved in engineering. He was brought up in Nice, France and later adopted the name Howard-Johnston, appending one of his father's forenames to his surname to distinguish himself from being the bearer of a common surname. He was known as 'Johnny', as he disliked the name Clarence. According to one source, Howard-Johnston entered the Royal Navy in 1917 but his obituary in The Times says he first went to sea in 1922 as a midshipman. The sources differ, too, regarding the next phase of his career, with The Times saying he spent some time on secondment in France and then was posted to China as second-in-command of HMS Tarantula but another version saying that he was a lieutenant in 1925 when he served on HMS Tarantula on the Yangtze river. By 1931, he had decided to specialise in anti-submarine warfare, and served in destroyers and the anti-submarine training centre at HMS Osprey. It was here that he invented the . By 1937 he had become a commander – his first command was HMS Viscount. After Viscount he spent some time on secondment to the Royal Hellenic Navy, where he was decorated by the Greeks. By the outbreak of the Second World War, he was back at the Admiralty but in 1940 was taken to organise anti-submarine operations in Norway. He received a DSC here, although not for anti-submarine duties: instead, for the evacuations at Andalsnes and Molde. A month later, he was ordered to demolish the port facilities at St Malo, and received a Mention in Dispatches for this work. Howard-Johnston was then transferred to command HMS Malcolm on the north Atlantic convoys, for which he received another Mention in Dispatches – and then the DSO, for the sinking of U-651. He was then transferred to Liverpool, to train others, before being promoted to captain in 1943, and had been made director of the Anti-Submarine Division at the Admiralty. In 1945, he was given command of HMS Bermuda, and later, HMS Vernon. In 1951, while at Vernon, he had to organise the unsuccessful search for HMS Affray, on which his son was serving. There were no survivors. In 1953, he was promoted to rear-admiral, and served on NATO staff before finally retiring. Howard-Johnston was married three times. He had a son from his first marriage, who died on the Affray, and later married Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig, a daughter of Field Marshal Earl Haig, with whom he had two sons and a daughter before that marriage also ended in divorce. His final marriage was to Paulette Helleu and was childless. (en)
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