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Carrier command after Admiral Lister

Denis Boyd and then Clement Moody succeeded Lister in the Royal Navy's senior carrier command structure during the war.

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Question

Who succeeded Rear Admiral Lister in senior Royal Navy carrier command?

Short answer

Denis Boyd followed Lister in 1941-42, and Clement Moody held the role in 1942-43.

Notes

A viewer asks who followed Rear Admiral Lister when he moved to the Admiralty. Denis Boyd held the role in 1941-42, followed by Clement Moody in 1942-43. They belonged to a broader succession of capable admirals appointed to carrier commands after Admiral Henderson's foundational work. The Royal Navy had institutionalized senior leadership for carrier aviation rather than treating air groups as an improvised wartime attachment.