Vice Admiral Vice admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, usually equivalent to lieutenant general and air marshal. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral. Australia In the Royal Australian Navy, the rank of Vice ...

Sir John Francis Coward, (11 October 1937 – 30 May 2020) was a

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officer who served as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies from 1992 to 1994.

Naval career

Coward joined the

in 1958. He served in the

Falklands War The Falklands War () was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories, British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and Falkland Islands Dependenci ...

in 1982 as Captain of . He was appointed Flag Officer Sea Training in 1987, Flag Officer, First Flotilla in 1988, and Flag Officer Submarines and Commander of the Eastern Atlantic Submarine Area in 1989. He became Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1992 and retired in 1994. In retirement Coward served as

Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey The lieutenant governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the lieutenant governor is to act as the ''de facto'' head of state in Guern ...

from 1994 to 2000. He died on 30 May 2020 at the age of 82.

References

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