Peter Ashmore

Sir Peter Ashmore
Born 4 February 1921
Died 31 July 2002
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service 1938–1972
Rank Vice Admiral
Commands held Admiralty Interview Board
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Distinguished Service Cross

Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Beckwith Ashmore KCB KCVO DSC (4 February 1921 – 31 July 2002) was a Royal Navy officer who became Master of the Household to the Sovereign.

Naval career

Born the son of Vice-Admiral Leslie Ashmore and educated at Yardley Court and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Ashmore joined the Royal Navy in 1938.[1] He served in the Second World War in the destroyer HMS Kipling in which he commanded the ship's guns during an operation to rescue survivors from two other British ships off Crete in May 1941.[2] After the War he became Deputy Director of the Royal Navy Staff College at Greenwich in 1957, Captain (Frigates) of the Dartmouth Training Squadron in 1960 and a member of the Plans Division at the Admiralty in 1963.[2] He went on to be Flag Officer, Admiralty Interview Board in 1966, Chief of Staff of the Western Fleet and to NATO Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic in 1967 and Chief of the Allied Staff at Headquarters Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe in 1970 before he retired in 1972.[2]

In retirement Ashmore was Master of the Household to the Sovereign.[2]

References

  1. "Admiral Sir Peter Ashmore". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Obituary: Admiral Sir Peter Ashmore". The Telegraph. 2 August 2002. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
Court offices
Preceded by
Sir Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts
Master of the Household
1973–1986
Succeeded by
Sir Paul Greening
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