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Edward Evans Lombe

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Died
  
14 May 1974

Commands held
  
HMS Glasgow

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Battles/wars
  
Second World War

Service/branch
  
Royal Navy

Name
  
Edward Evans-Lombe

Rank
  
Vice Admiral


Vice Admiral Sir Edward Malcolm Evans-Lombe KCB (15 October 1901 – 14 May 1974) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

Educated at West Downs School and in the Royal Navy, Evans-Lombe served in the Second World War initially as Naval Assistant to the Third Sea Lord and then, from 1942, as Captain of the cruiser HMS Glasgow. He was appointed Director of the Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division at the Admiralty in December 1943, Chief of Staff for the Eastern Fleet in June 1944 and Chief of Staff for the British Pacific Fleet in December 1944.

He became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in 1950 and retired in 1955. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1962 when he lived at Marlingford Hall.

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Edward Evans-Lombe Wikipedia