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Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Allison Fitzroy Talbot KBE CB DSO & Bar DL (22 October 1909 – 16 June 1998) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. ==Naval career== Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Fitzroy Talbot joined the Royal Navy in 1926.〔(Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir Fitzroy Talbot ) The Independent, 26 June 1998〕 He went to sea as a midshipman in the battleship HMS ''Royal Oak''.〔 He served in World War II initially as commander of the 10th Anti-Submarine Striking Force in the North Sea and then as Commander of the 3rd Motor Gun Boat Flotilla in the Channel.〔 He commanded the destroyers HMS ''Whitshed'' and , in the latter capacity supporting the advance through Italy.〔 Finally he was Chief of Staff to the Commodore, Western Isles.〔 After the War he became Chief Staff Officer (Operations) for the Far East Station〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 before taking command of the frigate HMS ''Alert'' in 1949.〔 In 1950 he was appointed Naval Attaché in Moscow and then, as Commander of 3rd Destroyer Squadron, he took part in the Suez Crisis in 1956 after which he became Commodore, Royal Navy Barracks, Portsmouth in 1957.〔 His next appointment was as Flag Officer Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf in 1960 before being made Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America in 1963.〔 He was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1965 and retired in 1967.〔 In retirement he became Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset in 1973.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fitzroy Talbot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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