sentences:  Promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 8 May 1940 and advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 11 July 1940, he became Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in May 1941.In that capacity he organised the defence of Plymouth from air attack, prosecuted attacks on enemy shipping using the harbour at Brest as well as other ports along the French coast, and also initiated the St Nazaire Raid in March 1942.After retiring on 24 August 1943, Forbes pursued his interests in golf and lived at Cawsand Place at Wentworth in Surrey.