Komatsu, Teruhisa (小松輝久)

Date of birth:: August 12th, 1888
Date of death:: November 15th, 1970
Nationality:: Japanese (1868-1945, Empire)

Biography

His Imperial Highness Kitashirakawa-no-miya Teruhisa, also Marquis Teruhisa Komatsu was the youngest son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa.

Promotions:
?: Sho-i Ko-hosai (Ensign);
?: Chu-i (Sub-lieutenant);
December 13th, 1915: Tahi-i (Lieutenant);
1919: Sho-sa (Lieutenant Commander);
1925: Chu-sa (Commander);
December 1st, 1930: Dai-sa (Captain);
December 1st, 1936: Sho-sho (Rear Admiral);
November 15th, 1940: Chu-sho (Vice-admiral).

Career:
? - 1909: Kaigun Heigakko (Imperial Japanese Naval College);
?: Midshipman cruiser Aso (1905);
?: battleship Satsuma (1906);
1912: battleship Kawachi (1912);
?: cruiser Soya (1900);
?: cruiser Kurama (1907);
1915: battleship Kongo (1905);
?: destroyer Yugure (1905);
?: destroyer Urakaze (1915);
?: battleship Yamashiro (1915);
April 1st, 1927 - December 1st, 1927: Commanding Officer destroyer Hokaze (1921);
1929: 1st Officer cruiser Isuzu (1921);
1930: 1st Officer battleship Nagato (1919);
December 1st, 1930 - November 14th, 1931: Commanding Officer minelayer Itsukushima (1929);
1931: Commanding Officer submarine tender Jingei (1923);
1933: Commanding Officer light-cruiser Kiso (1920);
1935: Commanding Officer heavy-cruiser Nachi (1927);
December 1936: Commanding Officer 1st Submarine Squadron;
1937: Commanding Officer Kure Subarine school;
1941: Commanding Officer Ryojun Yokobu (Ryojun Gardedistrict);
July 15th, 1941: Commanding Officer Dai-Ichi Kenshi Kantai (1st China Expedition Fleet);
December 1941: Commanding Officer Dai-roku Kantai (Japanese 6th Fleet);
June 1943: Commanding Officer Sasebo chinjufu (Sasebo Naval District);
November 1944: Commandant Kaigun Heigakko (Imperial Japanese Navy College);
May 1945: Retirement.

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Sources

- BOYD,C. & YOSHIDA, A., The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II, Naval Institute Press, 2012.
- MORISON, S.E., History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, volume 5, University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- VEGO, M.N., Major Fleet-versus-fleet Operations in the Pacific War, 1941-1945, Government Printing Office, 2015.