The Flag Officer, Middle East was a command appointment of the Royal Navy, established for two distinct periods from 1946–58 and then from c. 1962–1967.
From c. 1946–1958 the appointment was located in the Suez Canal Zone or, after the Suez Crisis, in the Cyprus area; when reestablished from the post of Flag Officer, Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf, the focus was on the other side of Arabia.
The headquarters moved from HMS Juffair in Bahrain to HMS Sheba, Steamer Point, Aden in 1962, and was located there until the British evacuation from Aden in 1967.
His former units and establishments were transferred to the joint-service Middle East Command at Aden.
In 1959 the former East Indies Persian Gulf Division and Red Sea division were amalgamated under the Commodore, Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf.