Rear Admiral George Barney Hamley Fawkes CB, CVO, CBE (4 September 1903 – 26 July 1967) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Submarines.
[1] He served in the Second World War becoming commander of the 8th Submarine Flotilla, based at Gibraltar, in December 1940 and Chief of Staff to the Rear-Admiral, Submarines in December 1943.
[1] Fawkes went on to be Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station in November 1946, Director of the Operations Division at the Admiralty in January 1949 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet in December 1951.
[1] His last appointment was as Flag Officer Submarines in February 1954 before retiring in January 1956.
[2] In 1924 Fawkes married Winifred Joyce Deakin; they had one son.