Roy Neville Suter

Captain (retired) Roy Neville Suter, D.S.O., R.N. (10 March, 1884 – ) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in Stoke, Newington.

Suter was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1905.

After serving with him in Pelorus, Captain Arthuer Craig evaluated Suter in April, 1909 and said he was "not very good in handling men."

Suter was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December, 1913.

Suter was granted the acting rank of Commander on 2 November, 1914 and placed in command of a ship called Lawrence I have yet to identify by the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. On 4 April, 1916, Suter stranded Lawrence on a reef. In June 1917, he ceded command of the vessel but remained aboard as Flag Commander to Rear Admiral Drury St. Aubyn Wake. Later in the year, he was still with Lawrence, but on the staff of Rear-Admiral, Persian Gulf. Suter was awarded a D.S.O. for gallantry in command of Lawrence on several occasions, gazetted 7 August, 1918.

Suter was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1918. In mid-August, he took command of the convoy sloop Ceanothus. He remained with her until being appointed to Vernon for three months at the Mining School on 10 July, 1919.

In 1926, Suter was thanked by the Air Council for his help in completing the Persian Gulf section of a ground survey for the Egypt to

Suter was placed on the Retired List at his own request with the rank of Captain on 1 April, 1930.

See Also

• Service Records
• Wikipedia

Naval Appointments
Preceded by William C. O'G. Cochrane	Captain of H.M.S. Ceanothus 17 Aug, 1918 – May, 1919[Inference]	Succeeded by Harold S. Gillett
Preceded by George C. H. Lawson	Captain of H.M.S. Lupin 24 Jun, 1924	Succeeded by ?