Admiral Sir Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley, (15 February 1905 – 28 September 1972) was a

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officer who served as

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and Allied Command Channel from 1961 to 1963.

Naval career

Bingley joined the

as a cadet in 1918.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief,

Home Fleet The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated from the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967. In 1967, it was merged with the Mediterranean Fleet creating the new Western Fleet. Before the Fi ...

. He went on to captain the aircraft carrier in 1943, of the aircraft carrier in 1944, and of the Mobile Naval Air Base HMS ''Nabaron'' in 1945. After the war, Bingley was appointed Deputy Director of Air Warfare. He went on to be Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer (Air) and then Commander of the aircraft-carrier in 1952. He was appointed

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and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air) in 1954 and Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers in 1958. He was made Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and

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Commander

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in 1959 and then

and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel in 1961; he retired in 1963.

Personal life

Bingley married Juliet Martin Vick in 1948. After his death she resumed her career as a social worker after a gap of 28 years, and was appointed a

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in 1970. They had three children, and lived at

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in Hertfordshire.

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