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Garde, Thomas V.
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Personal Information |
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Full Name: |
Thomas Vilhelm Garde |
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Date of Birth: |
October 22, 1859 |
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Place of Birth: |
Copenhagen |
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Family
Relations: |
Son
of Rear Admiral Hans Georg Friboe Garde and wife Anna Christine Elisabeth
Garde, born Knudsen |
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Marriage: |
1st
marriage to Inger Kirstine Garde, born Holm.
2nd marriage to Christine Vilhelmine Garde, born Olsen |
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Promotions |
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Date: |
Promotion: |
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1876 |
Naval Cadet |
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August
26, 1880 |
Sub Lieutenant (awarded the Gerner
Medal) |
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October 24, 1881 |
Lieutenant |
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June
22, 1898 |
Commander |
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May
14, 1908 |
Captain |
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April
27, 1918 |
Rear Admiral |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinctions |
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Date: |
Order, Decoration or Distinction: |
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August
26, 1880 |
The
Gerner Medal |
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January 30, 1902 |
Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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October 1, 1908 |
Silver
Cross of the Danish Order of the Dannebroge |
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May
25, 1911 |
Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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April
2, 1919 |
Knight
Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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October 22, 1921 |
Medal
of Merit, 1st Class |
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Military
Service |
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Date: |
Military
Service: |
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1880-1881 |
Service on the frigate
JYLLAND to the Danish West Indies (DWI) |
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1886 |
Service on the schooner
FYLLA to Greenland |
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1886-1887 |
Service on the frigate
JYLLAND to the DWI |
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1894 |
1st
Officer on the schooner
DIANA, surveying off Iceland |
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1895 |
1st
Officer on the corvette DAGMAR (Training ship for naval cadets) |
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1896 |
Directed the surveying of the Hvammsfjord on Iceland |
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1897 |
Commanding the Russian State Ice breaker
NADESHNIJ on
route from Copenhagen
to Vladivostok |
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1898
and 1899 |
Directed the surveying of Danish waters |
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1900-1903 |
Commanding the postal steam ship (Korsoer to Kiel) |
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1903 |
1st
Officer on the cruiser
VALKYRIEN |
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1904
and 1905 |
Chief
of Staff of the Squadron |
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1904-1907 |
Service at the Staff of the Naval Department (in Danish,
"Marineministeriet") |
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1906 |
Commanding Officer (CO) of the cruiser
HEJMDAL (Training ship for naval
cadets) |
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1907-1908 |
CO of
the schooner
INGOLF (Guard ship at the DWI) |
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1908 |
Chief
of Staff of the Squadron |
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December 16,1908-
September 27, 1911 |
Director of the Naval Department |
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1911-1914 |
Chief
of the Naval Staff |
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1911-1912 |
CO of
the coast defense ship
PEDER SKRAM |
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1912 |
CO of
the coast defense ship
OLFERT FISCHER |
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August 5, 1914-
August 1, 1915 |
Chief
in Command (CinC) of the 2nd Squadron at the Great Belt |
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August 16, 1915-
September 2, 1917 |
CinC of the 1st Squadron at the Sound |
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April
11, 1918 |
Acting CinC of the Naval Floating Defense Squadron at Copenhagen
(in Danish, "Den flydende Defensionseskadre") |
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April
27, 1918 |
CinC of the Naval Floating Defense Squadron at Copenhagen |
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October 22, 1921 |
Honor
full discharge on application |
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Other Achievements |
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Date: |
Achievement: |
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1883-1885 |
Participating in Holm's expedition (in Danish called, "Konebaadsekspeditionen")
to the East coast of Greenland |
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1889-1891 |
Commanding the Greenland Trading Company's ship
HVIDBJØRNEN |
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1893 |
Commanding an expedition the the district of Julianehaab and the Ice cap of
Greenland |
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1895-1898 |
Deputy Manager at the Danish Meteorological Office |
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April
30, 1918 |
Chairman of the Supreme War Court (in Danish, "Overkrigsretten") |
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1918 |
Chairman of an International Commission to investigate the internment of 2
German submarines at Virgo |
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Additional Comments |
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Co writer of the book "Den danske Konebaadsekspedition til Groenlands
Oestkyst", published in Copenhagen 1887. |
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Death |
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Date: |
Cemetery: |
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June
24, 1926 |
Died
at the "Rigshospital" in Copenhagen, and buried at the Gentofte
Cemetery in
the Northern part of Copenhagen |
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Sources: |
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Det Danske
Søofficerskorps 1801-1919, by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen, Gyldendals Boghandel
and Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1919 |
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Officerer i den
Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den Danske Søetat 1814-1932, Bind I og II,
by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil
Marquard,
H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen,
1935 |
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