Rear Admiral David Michael Eckersley-Maslin CB (27 September 1929 - 26 July 2017) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer Sea Training.
Educated at Britannia Royal Naval College, Eckersley-Maslin joined the Royal Navy and shortly thereafter saw action during the Malayan Emergency in the early 1950s.
[1] He went on to be Director of Naval Operational Requirements in 1977, Flag Officer Sea Training in 1980[2] and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Operational Planning) during the Falklands War in 1982.
[1] His final appointments were as Assistant Director (Communications and Information Systems) at NATO in 1984 and as Director-General of the NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency in 1986 before retiring in 1991.
[1] Eckersley-Maslin was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1984 Birthday Honours.