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Philip Whitworth Burnett
Rear Admiral Philip Whitworth Burnett DSO, DCO, CB, (10 October 1908 - 6 October 1996) was a Senior British Military Commander who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Naval career
Burnett joined the Royal Navy in 1926 with the rank of midshipman. In April 1930 Burnett was promoted to Lieutenant Commander aboard the HMS Kelly, which later succumbed to a German torpedo in the North Sea. The Kelly was towed back to Newcastle in a semi-submerged condition, which took more than 90 hours under repeated air attacks. The Kelly was rebuilt in Newcastle, and Burnett was promoted to Commander in January 1941, becoming the Chief Staff Training Officer at H.M.S Osprey, the anti-submarine school. In 1945 Burnett was appointed to the Admiralty as Assistant Director of the Anti U-boat Division, retiring in 1957 as Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom, and as Naval Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief Portsmouth.

Awards and Honors

 * Distinguished Service Order
 * Distinguished Service Cross - Successful actions against E-Boats
 * Distinguished Service Cross - Sinking U744 (6 March 1944)
 * Order of the Bath - 1957 New Years Honors
 * Mention in Dispatches (9 August 1940)
 * Mention in Dispatches (New Year 1941)