Honorific Prefix: | Admiral |
Sir John Bush | |
Birth Date: | 1914 11, df=y |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | Royal Navy |
Rank: | Admiral |
Commands: | 6th Frigate Squadron Western Fleet |
Battles: | World War II |
Relations: | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Cross & two bars |
Admiral Sir John Fitzroy Duyland Bush (1 November 1914 – 10 May 2013) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet.
Educated at Clifton College,[1] Bush was commissioned into the Royal Navy and served in World War II.[2] He became Commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Undine as well as Captain of the 6th Frigate Squadron in 1955, Flag Officer (Flotillas) in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1961[3] and then Commander of the British Naval staff in Washington D. C. in 1962.[4]
In January 1967 he led a British delegation to South Africa to renegotiate the Simonstown Agreement.[5]
He was appointed Vice Chief of the Naval Staff in 1965[6] and the first Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet in 1967.[7] He retired in 1970.[2]
In retirement he held the posts of Rear-Admiral and then Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. He was one of the inaugural members of East Hampshire District Council after its creation in 1973. He died on 10 May 2013.[8]
In 1938 he married Ruth Kennedy Horsey; they went on to have three sons and two daughters.[2] [5]
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