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Commander R.N.R. Charles Lawrence Cutsforth, R.D. (20 June, 1890 – 18 April, 1933) was an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve.

Cutsforth was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant R.N.R. on 1 November, 1916.^[1]

Cutsforth was appointed in command of the destroyer Desperate on 3 April, 1918.^[2]

Demobilised on 5 April, 1919.

Cutsforth was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. on 1 November, 1924.^[3]

In April, 1932, Cutsforth served for just two weeks in H.M.S. Witch on the China Station. Commander Lawrence Frederick Nelson Ommanney offered him a special recommendation for promotion, which Captain (D), Eighth Destroyer Flotilla Robert Lindsay Burnett echoed. Accordingly, Cutsforth was promoted to the rank of Commander R.N.R. on 31 December, 1932.^[4]

Cutsforth died in 1933 at the General Hospital at Johor, Bahru (or possibly in Basra... hard to read).

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Naval Appointments
Preceded by James Hill	Captain of H.M. T.B. 026 15 Jun, 1915^[5] – 22 Jul, 1916^[6]	Succeeded by Reginald A. Woodward
Preceded by Kingsley G. Howe	Captain of H.M. T.B. 110 22 Jul, 1916^[7] – 31 Mar, 1918^[8]	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Samuel Mallin	Captain of H.M.S. Desperate 3 Apr, 1918^[9]^[10] – 25 Feb, 1919^[11]	Succeeded by ?