D-Day The Normandy Invasion - The Leaders Part ...

Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Bt GCB KCVO CMG DSO RN (4 October 1872 26 December 1945) was a noted British admiral, with an active service life that included 19th-century African anti-slavery patrols to the Allied landings in Leyte in World War II. The German assault on Norway on 9 April 1940, roused Keyes. It was a campaign that related to much of his experience — amphibious landings, as at the Dardanelles; scope for using small boats and storming ...