Allegiance United Kingdom Role Navy officer Rank Rear admiral Name George Fawkes Service/branch Royal Navy | Battles/wars World War II Battles and wars World War II Years of service 1920-1956 Died July 26, 1967 | |
Commands held HMS H50
HMS Otus
8th Submarine Flotilla Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire | ||
Rear Admiral George Barney Hamley Fawkes CB, CVO, CBE (4 September 1903 – 26 July 1967) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Submarines.
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Naval career
Fawkes joined the Royal Navy in 1920. He became commanding officer of the submarine HMS H50 in April 1932 and of the submarine HMS Otus in April 1935. He served in the Second World War becoming commander of the 8th Submarine Flotilla, based at Gibraltar, in December 1940 and Chief of Staff to the Rear-Admiral, Submarines in December 1943.
Fawkes went on to be Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station in November 1946, Director of the Operations Division at the Admiralty in January 1949 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet in December 1951. His last appointment was as Flag Officer Submarines in February 1954 before retiring in January 1956.
Family
In 1924 Fawkes married Winifred Joyce Deakin; they had one son. Following a divorce from his first wife, he married Suzette Flagler in 1949.