Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
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United KingdomLived 1888 to 1981 · aged 93Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War, saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and took part in the internment of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the war.
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The aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, which Fraser commanded in the mid-1930s
Tokyo Bay - Surrender of Japanese aboard USS Missouri. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commanding British Pacific fleet, signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the United Kingdom. Other British representatives stand alongside General Douglas MacArthur at the microphone.
Bust of Admiral Fraser in Portsmouth Dockyard
Memorial to Admiral Fraser at St Michael and All Angels Church in ThursleyAwards 8
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Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War, saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and took part in the internment of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the war. He also served in the Second World War initially as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy and then as second-in-command and afterwards as commander of the Home Fleet, leading the force that destroyed the German battleship Scharnhorst. He went on to be First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in which role he assisted in establishing NATO and agreed to the principle that the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic should be an American admiral, in the face of fierce British opposition.
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