Admiral Sir Clement Moody, (31 May 1891 – 6 July 1960) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 1945 to 1946 and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, from 1946 to 1948.
Family Clement C. Moody was the son of The Rev. William Herbert Moody (d. 5 May 1916), who was vicar of Frensham, Surrey, from 1888 to 1908, and of Bentley, Hampshire, from 1908 until his death in 1916.
He was the brother of Captain Ambrose Moody (30 January 1893 – 21 August 1915), of the 5th Battalion The Dorset Regiment, who was lost missing in action at the Dardanelles.
He was the father of Fleet Air Arm officer and Quaker peace activist Richard Moody.
Naval career Moody was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1911. He served in the First World War and, in 1935, was given command of . He commanded the aircraft carrier from 1937.
Moody served in the Second World War as Director of the Naval Air Division and then as second-in-command of Naval Air Stations in 1941. He was made second-in-command of Aircraft Carriers in Home Waters in 1943; in April 1944 he took part in Operation Cockpit, a bombing raid on Japanese port and oil facilities on Sabang Island (off the northern tip of Sumatra).
Moody went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 15 December 1945 to 8 March 1946.Admiral Moody's visit The Straits Times, 16 February 1946, p. 4Guide to the Archives on Relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia, 1945 – 1963, p. 63 His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic in 1946, as which he served until his retirement in 1948.
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