Английская Википедия:Alan Scott-Moncrieff

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Admiral Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Шаблон:Postnominals (3 September 1900 – 25 November 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet from 1955 to 1957.

Early life and education

Scott-Moncrieff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest son of Robert Lawrence Scott-Moncrieff and Victorine Troutbeck, whose father, John Brown Troutbeck, had settled in Buenos Aires. He was a cousin of Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff.[1]

He was educated at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth.[2]

Naval career

When still a teenager, Scott-Moncrieff joined the Royal Navy in 1917, in the last year of the First World War,[3] serving as a midshipman in Шаблон:HMS.[3]

Scott-Moncrieff also served in the Second World War as captain of Шаблон:HMS and then as Chief Signals Officer to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten at Combined Operations Headquarters in 1941 before becoming captain of Шаблон:HMS in 1942.[3]

After the war, Scott-Moncrieff was made Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and then commanded Шаблон:HMS from 1949.[3] He was made Chairman of the Naval Advisory Committee at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1950 and second-in-command Far East Fleet and commander of 5th Cruiser Squadron in 1951.[3] He was appointed Commander of the Commonwealth Naval Forces serving in the Korean War in 1952 and Admiral commanding the Reserves in 1953.[3] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet in 1955; in September 1955 he paid an official visit to Australia.[4] He retired in 1958.[3]

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