Walter Ash

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Walter William Hector Ash CB ( 1906 - 1998 ) was a British Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy .

Life

Ash graduated from the City and Guilds College , London, and joined the Royal Navy on November 30, 1927. Initially, he worked as an electrical contractor for HM Dockyards and Naval Establishments . He then began training as a naval officer at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich . After graduation, he became an assistant in the electrical engineering department of the Admiralty on November 30, 1930 , where he dealt with submarine development. In 1934 he was a guest lecturer (Visiting Lecturer ) forElectrical engineering at the Royal Naval College and then from 1937 to 1939 electrical engineer in the electrical engineering department of the Admiralty, where he dealt this time with battleship development.

During the Second World War was Ash initially from 1939 to 1940 Fleet electrical engineer on the staff of Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet ( Mediterranean Fleet ) and then between 1940 and 1945 Senior Electrical Engineer in the procurement and production department of the Admiralty. After the war, he served from 1945 to 1948 as chief engineer of the Royal Shipyard (HM Dockyard) in Hong Kong , and from 1948 to 1949 as a senior electrical engineer in Engineering Sciences Laboratory of the Admiralty in West Drayton , before 1950-1951 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the auxiliary cruiser HMS Montclare was. In 1951 he was promoted to captain of the sea and was then responsible for weapons control development in the Admiralty and then between 1953 and 1954 in the electrical engineering department there.

Ash served as director of electrical engineering at HM Dockyard in Devonport between 1954 and 1958 and chairman of the Southwest Section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) from 1957 to 1958 . He then worked as aide-de-camp for Queen Elisabeth II between 1958 and 1960 and also worked in the Admiralty's ship development department from 1959 to 1960.

1960 Ash was promoted to Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) and was as such last between 1960 and 1963 deputy head of the electrical engineering department of the Admiralty's shipping department. During this time he became Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) on January 1, 1962 . In 1963, Ash, who was also a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, retired.

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Individual evidence

  1. London Gazette . No. 33335, HMSO, London, December 6, 1927, p. 7837 ( PDF , accessed June 18, 2016, English).
  2. London Gazette . No. 33667, HMSO, London, December 5, 1930, p. 7779 ( PDF , accessed June 18, 2016, English).
  3. London Gazette . No. 42552, HMSO, London, December 29, 1961, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed June 18, 2016, English).