Sir Atwell Lake, 9th Baronet

Commodore Sir Atwell Henry Lake, 9th Baronet, CB, OBE (13 February 1891 – 27 November 1972) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and the second Chief of Naval Staff of the Royal New Zealand Navy, serving from June 1942 to July 1945.^[1]

Commodore Sir Atwell Lake Bt CB OBE
Lake in 1944
Born	(1891-02-13)13 February 1891 Greenwich, London
Died	27 November 1972(1972-11-27) (aged 81) Rudgwick, West Sussex
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1904–1945
Rank	Commodore
Commands	Chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff (1942–45) HMS Caledonia (1937–39) HMS Milford (1935–36)
Battles / wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Officer of the Order of the British Empire Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States)
Other work	Admiral Atwell Lake (father)

Lake was born in 1891. His parents were Admiral Atwell Peregrine Macleod Lake (1842–1915) and Constance Mary Turner. Sir Henry Atwell Lake was his grandfather.^[2]

On 30 June 1927, he was promoted from lieutenant commander to commander.^[3] On 31 December 1932, he was promoted from commander to captain.^[4] He was appointed a Commander of the Legion of Merit, a military award of the United States Armed Forces, and was granted unrestricted permission by the King to wear this award in 1946.^[5] In the 1945 New Year Honours, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).^[6]