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Capitão-de-Fragata Garcia D´Avila Pires de Carvalho e Albuquerque was born on 22 September 1897, joining the Naval Academy as Midshipman Candidate in 1913. During World War One, he served on destroyer Rio Grande do Norte as a member of the Divisão Naval em Operações em Guerra (DNOG), operating outside Brazilian waters at Dakar. He served in the American Navy from 1919 to 1921 and from 1924 to 1928 and was at the disposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he participated in the work of the Brazil/Peru Liites Commission, having served as Head of the Sub-Commission that studied the Juruá rivers Mirim, Nôa and Juruá, where he carried out the demarcation along the 60 kilometers to the north of the Brazil-Peru borders. He commanded the School of Marine Apprentices in Bahia from 1936 to 1938 and was Assistant to the Chief of the American Naval Mission during World War II. In 1945, he took command of the cruiser Bahia in war service, where he died in the accidental sinking of the ship on 04 July 1945.
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