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About Teddy Gueritz
- Rear Admiral Edward Findlay "Teddy" Gueritz, (8 September 1919 – 21 December 2008) was a long-serving Royal Navy officer.
- From D-Day, 6 June 1944, he served as beachmaster on Sword, organising the flow of men and materiel into the beachhead, including 30,000 troops on the first day.
- 19 days later he was severely wounded and evacuated to the United Kingdom where he required life-saving surgery.
- He had previously served in a similar role during Operation Ironclad, which captured Madagascar in 1942.
- He retired from the navy in 1973, and became an academic and author.
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