Ships
- HMS Newcastle (76) Captain from 15 August 1940 · Relieved on 14 February 1942
Edward Arthur Aylmer had Newcastle from 15 August 1940 until 14 February 1942. He was in command on 7 December 1941, while she was finishing a refit at the Boston Navy Yard.
Uboat.net records that he was born on 20 March 1892 and died on 30 October 1974. It gives no places.
The rank table lists midshipman on 15 January 1910, acting sub-lieutenant on 15 September 1912, sub-lieutenant on 15 May 1913, lieutenant on 14 December 1914, lieutenant-commander on 16 December 1922, commander on 30 June 1927, and captain on 30 June 1935. He retired on 7 July 1944. The DSC is dated 22 June 1917, and a mention in despatches is dated 6 January 1942, while he still had Newcastle. The page says it has no career narrative and does not say what the mention was for.
She was nominated for the Boston refit in August 1941 and taken in hand on 20 September. The refit ran through November. In December she prepared for passage home and arrived at Plymouth on 29 December. On 25 January 1942 she was transferred to the 4th Cruiser Squadron, Eastern Fleet, and on 21 February she joined WS16. Aylmer left on 14 February 1942, four days before that convoy date and before she reached the Indian Ocean. Peveril William-Powlett took her for the rest of the passage and for the Eastern Fleet commission that followed.
He retired on 7 July 1944. He died on 30 October 1974.