ABSTRACT
In 1923 he joined Dartmouth; 1933, Lieutenant; 1946, Commander; 1951, Captain; 1961, Rear-Admiral; 1964, Vice-Admiral.
At the beginning of WW2, Scatchard was First Lieutenant of the destroyer Kashmir in Lord Louis MOUNTBATTEN’S squadron. After the loss of Kelly and Kashmir off Crete in 1941, he was given command of the ‘Hunt’-class destroyer Garth, and took part in the unsuccessful raid on Dieppe in 1942, in an interval between escorting convoys along the English east coast. He earned his first DSC for these operations, and shortly afterwards fought a successful night battle with German E-boats, sinking one and damaging others, off Yarmouth. Having cut his teeth in an escort destroyer, he was given command of a new fleet destroyer, Termagant, and in the Mediterranean earned a second DSC for the destruction of U-453. Shortly afterwards, he earned a third for the destruction of two Axis destroyers in two separate actions in the Aegean: and Termagant ended the war in the Far East, taking part in several offensive actions against Japanese shore installations.
