Rear Admiral Bruce Nicholas Bromley Williams CBE is a retired Royal Navy officer.
During this command, which coincided with the war in Somalia between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), backed by the forces of Ethiopia against the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), Williams led the task force performing naval interdiction off the Somali coast of during the Battle of Ras Kamboni in January 2007 to prevent the escape of wanted terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda.
[2] Williams turned over command of Task Force 150 to French Navy Rear Admiral Alain Hinden on 4 April 2007.
[4] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
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