Nickname(s) "Daddy" Rank Admiral | Name Patrick Brind Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Commands held HMS OrionHMS BirminghamRoyal Naval College, Greenwich Battles/wars World War IWorld War II Awards Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath | ||
Battles and wars World War I, World War II | ||
Admiral Sir Eric James Patrick Brind (1892–1963) was the first Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe.
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Naval career
Brind served in World War I on the Gunboat HMS Excellent followed by HMS Malaya and finally on the monitor HMS Sir John Moore.
After the War he was Captain of HMS Orion and then of HMS Birmingham.
He also served in World War II as Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet from 1940 to 1942 when he became Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff. He was made Commander of cruisers in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945.
He became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1946 and then Commander-in-Chief for the Far East Station in 1949. It was under Brind's command as C-in-C Far East station that HMS Amethyst sailed up the Yangtze River and was stranded there for six weeks.
He was made Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1951; he retired in 1953.