Francis Cromie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British Royal Navy Commander, Naval attaché
Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1882
Place of Birth: Ireland
Date of Death: 31-Aug-1918
Profession: diplomat, submariner
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Francis Cromie
- Captain (Acting) Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB, DSO, (30 January 1882 – 31 August 1918, Petrograd) was a distinguished British Royal Navy Commander, and the de facto chief of British Intelligence operations in northern Russia for the British Naval Intelligence Division.
- At the outbreak of World War I he was commanding officer of the British Royal Navy China Hong Kong submarine flotilla, and from 1915 assumed command of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic.
- Later during the First World War and Russian revolution he was naval attaché to the diplomatic staff of the British Embassy in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russia, where he met his death, while defending the British embassy premises.
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