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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person 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.

Naval career

Fawkes joined the Royal Navy in 1920.[1] He became commanding officer of the submarine HMS H50 in April 1932 and of the submarine HMS Otus in April 1935.[1] 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.[1]

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.[1] His last appointment was as Flag Officer Submarines in February 1954 before retiring in January 1956.[2]

Family

In 1924 Fawkes married Winifred Joyce Deakin; they had one son.[1] Following a divorce from his first wife, he married Suzette Flagler in 1949.[1]

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