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John Alfred Moreton

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Captain John Alfred Moreton, CMG, DSO, Royal Navy was an officer of the Royal Navy active in the First World War. Promoted to Captain on 1 January 1916 he commanded the monitors General Wolfe and Erebus. He took a leading rôle in the British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19 as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. For a short period of time in November, 1919 he was Military Governor of the Latvian city of Riga.