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Ian Easton
Admiral Sir Ian Easton KCB DSC (1917–1989) was a Royal Navy officer who held various command positions in the 1970s.
==Naval career==
Easton joined the Royal Navy in 1931 and qualified as a pilot at the start of World War II in which he saw active service on aircraft carriers.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 On 4 January 1941, flying a Fairey Fulmar of 803 Squadron from during a raid on Dakar he force landed, with his aircrewman Naval Airman James Burkey and was taken prisoner and held by the Vichy French at a camp near Timbuktu until released in November 1942.〔(Unit histories )〕 He was appointed Assistant Director of the Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1960 and was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy as Captain of HMAS ''Watson'' in 1962.〔 He went on to be Naval Assistant to the Naval Member of the Templer Committee on Rationalisation of Air Power in 1965, Director of Naval Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1966 and Captain of the aircraft carrier HMS ''Triumph'' in 1968.〔 After that he was made Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy) in 1969, Flag Officer for the Admiralty Interview Board in 1971 and Head of British Defence Staff and Senior Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1973.〔 He last posting was as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976: he commissioned armourial bearings for the College which were presented during a visit by the Queen in November 1977.〔(Our coat of arms ) Ministry of Defence〕 He retired in 1978.〔
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