Charles Norris (Royal Navy officer)

Vice Admiral Sir Charles Fred Wivell Norris KBE CB DSO (16 December 1900 – 17 December 1989) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet.

[3] He served in World War I and took part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

[3] He took part in the Normandy landings on Omaha Beach in 1944 and in the Murmansk Convoys in the Winter 1944 to 1945.

[3] In 1948 he became Captain of the Fleet for the Home Fleet and in 1950 he was appointed Director of Naval Training and Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel, (Training) at the Admiralty.

[3] He was made Flag Officer Flotillas, Mediterranean,[4] at Malta in 1953 and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies in 1954; he retired in 1956.