Archibald George FormanCBE (1910-1967) was a British naval officer who became the first Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy.[1][2]
Ghana Navy service
Forman was born in Brentford on 20 June 1910.[3][4] At age 17, he was an acting sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. In 1931, he became a sub-lieutenant and promoted as a lieutenant two years after (1933). In 1941, he became Lieutenant Commander and commanded HMS Airdale[5] and HMS Lookout (G32). He was mentioned in dispatches in 1942, and became a Commander at the end of 1943, where he commanded HMS Garth (L20). In 1950, he was made Commodore. Retiring from active Navy service in July 1959,[6] he was seconded to the newly created Ghana Navy. Kwame Nkrumah, then the Ghanapresident, granted him a presidential commission as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore and appointed him Chief of Naval Staff.[7] This was after the navy had been established in 1959.[8]
After Nkrumah assumed the title of Supreme Commander in September, he replaced Commodore Forman with Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Hansen.[9] As Captain A. G. Forman he received a CBE in 1962.[10][11]
^"The Security Services"(PDF). National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 4 Chapter 1. Ghana government. October 2004. pp. 3 & 4. Archived from the original(pdf) on 16 October 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
