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Ronald Brockman
Vice-Admiral Sir Ronald Vernon Brockman (8 March 1909 – 3 September 1999) was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served under Lord Mountbatten and participated in accepting the surrender of the Japanese Fleet in 1945. Sir Ronald was the elder son of Engineer Rear-Admiral Henry Stafford Brockman CB. He was descendant of the English Brockman family, and was Gentleman Usher to the Queen from 1967 to 1979.
==Military service==
Sir Ronald was educated at Weymouth College in Dorset and joined the Royal Navy in 1927〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 as a paymaster cadet (later Supply Officer). He was promoted to paymaster sub-lieutenant on 16 April 1930 (seniority from 1 September 1929)〔(London Gazette, 22 April 1930 )〕 and to paymaster lieutenant on 1 October 1931.〔(London Gazette, 6 October 1931 )〕 He served as the Assistant Secretary to the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Backhouse from 1938 to 1939〔 and was promoted to paymaster lieutenant-commander on 1 October 1939.〔(The London Gazette, 27 October 1939 )〕
He was the Admiral's Secretary to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound during World War II from 1939 to 1943.〔 Promoted to paymaster commander on 31 December 1943,〔(London Gazette, 11 January 1944 )〕 he served as Admiral's Secretary to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis (Francis Albert Victor) Mountbatten (Lord Mountbatten of Burma from 1946) from 1943 to 1959〔 and as an acting captain was the Private Secretary to Mountbatten as Governor General of India from 1947 to 1948.〔 Finally, he served as the Senior Staff Officer to the Chief of Defence Staff within the Ministry of Defence from 1959 to 1965.〔 He was promoted to the substantive rank of captain (S) on 30 June 1953.〔(The London Gazette, 21 July 1953 )〕 He was promoted to rear admiral on 7 July 1960,〔(The London Gazette, 29 July 1960 )〕 and to vice-admiral on 6 April 1963.〔(The London Gazette, 7 June 1963 )〕 He retired from the Royal Navy on 6 December 1965〔(The London Gazette, 21 January 1966 )〕
He was appointed a KCB in the 1965 New Year Honours,〔(London Gazette, 1 January 1965 )〕 CSI 1947, CIE 1946, CVO 1979 and CBE 1943. He was made a KStJ in 1985 and among his foreign awards were the Special Rosette of Cloud and Banner (China) 1948,〔(London Gazette, 2 November 1948 )〕 Chevalier Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre with Palm (France) 1950〔(London Gazette, 28 March 1950 )〕 and Bronze Star Medal (USA) 1947.
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