Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram (24 July 1924 – 30 June 2011) was a

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officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

Naval career

Educated at the

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, Loram served in the Royal Navy during

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, the action against the

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in April 1944. He was also the officer who fired the torpedo which in 1942 scuttled the cruiser HMS Edinburgh, the Royal Navy ship carrying five tons of Russian gold.Obituary of Vice-Admiral Sir David Loram
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in 1946 and

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in 1954. He was appointed Director of Naval Operations and Trade under the Ministry of Defence Naval Staff from May 1970 to March 1971. He went on to be Flag Officer, Malta in 1973, Commandant of the National Defence College in 1975 and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1977 before retiring in 1980. In retirement he became a Gentleman Usher to the Queen.

Family

In 1958 he married Fiona Beloe; they had three sons. Following the dissolution of his first marriage he married Diana Keigwin. That marriage was also subsequently dissolved and he married third Sara Stead-Ellis, who survives him.

References

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