Career
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Glennie joined the Royal Navy in 1905 and served in the Second World War in the Home Fleet and in the Grand Fleet. He joined the Staff at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1922 and then commanded Destroyers from 1925. He then served as Commander of Destroyers in the Mediterranean Fleet from 1941, taking part in the Battle of Crete and preventing Axis troops from landing on that island in May 1941, before becoming Commander of Destroyers in the Home Fleet from 1943.
He was made Senior Naval Officer, Western Atlantic from 1944.
This role evolved into Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station in 1945. He welcomed President Harry South. Truman to Bermuda after the War and retired in 1947.
He died in 1980 at Lymington in Hampshire.
