Rear admiral
Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral.
Rear admiral is usually immediately senior to commodore and immediately below vice admiral. It is ...
Derek Willoughby Bazalgette
CB (22 July 1924 – 22 July 2007) was a
Royal Navy
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officer who became President of the
Royal Naval College, Greenwich
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.
Naval career
Educated at the
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
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, Bazalgette joined the
Royal Navy
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in 1938 and served in
World War II
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with the
Arctic convoys
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.
[Debrett's People of Today 1994] While serving as Second-in-Command of the
aircraft carrier
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HMS ''Centaur'' in 1964, he assisted in an operation to deploy
45 Commando
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in
Dar es Salaam
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where the 1st Battalion
Tanganyika Rifles
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History
With the independence of Tanganyika (1961–1964), Tanganyika in December 1961, the two battalions of the King's African R ...
had staged a mutiny.
[Obituary: Rear Admiral Derek Bazalgette]
The Times He became Director of Naval Operations at the
Ministry of Defence
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in 1965, Commanding Officer of the
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...
HMS ''Aurora'' in 1967 and Chief of Staff to the
Commander British Forces in Hong Kong
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in 1970.
[ He went on to be Commanding Officer of the ]commando carrier
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HMS ''Bulwark'' in 1972 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
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in 1974. He was promoted rear admiral
Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral.
Rear admiral is usually immediately senior to commodore and immediately below vice admiral. It is ...
on 7 July 1974, before retiring in 1976.[ He died in July 2007.][
]
References
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1924 births
2007 deaths
Royal Navy rear admirals
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Admiral presidents of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich