Name John Clink Rank Rear admiral | ||
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Commands held HMS Ark RoyalBritish Forces GibraltarScotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland Awards Order of the British Empire | ||
Rear Admiral John Robert Hamilton Clink, CBE (born 18 February 1964) is a Royal Navy officer who has served as Flag Officer Sea Training since 2015.
Naval career
Clink was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and King's College London (MA International Security and Strategy, 2012). He became commanding officer of the Aberdeen University Royal Naval Unit and its patrol boat HMS Archer in 1991, commanding officer of the frigate HMS Kent in 1998 and commanding officer of HMS Ark Royal in July 2008 before becoming Deputy Commander UK Maritime Forces in June 2011. In the latter role he commanded Combined Task Force 150, a multinational naval task force working under a 25 nation coalition of Combined Maritime Forces based in Bahrain. He went on to be Commander British Forces Gibraltar in November 2012, Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England, Northern Ireland in the rank of rear admiral in August 2014, and Flag Officer Sea Training in 2015.
Clink was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours.