Edmund Rushbrooke


Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke, CBE, DSC was a Royal Navy officer.

Naval career

Rushbrooke served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier HMS Argus from August 1940 and of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle from April 1941. On the early afternoon of 11 August, 1942 Eagle was hit by four torpedoes from the, commanded by Helmut Rosenbaum, and sank within four minutes, south of Cape Salinas. 131 officers and men, mainly from the ship's machinery spaces, were lost in the sinking. Rushbrooke survived and went on to be Director of Naval Intelligence in November 1942.