Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Gerard "Ged" Napier Mansfield KBE CVO (13 July 1921 – 27 June 2006)[1] was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic.

At the start of the war, Sussex joined Force H hunting for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic.

He then escorted the first troop convoy from Australia and New Zealand across the Indian Ocean, and took part in the campaign against Italian Somaliland.

He spent a short period in the battlecruiser HMS Repulse followed by professional courses at Portsmouth during the Blitz - "not conducive to diligent study," he recalled.

He was next appointed Flag Officer Sea Training from March 1971 to October 1972, during which he was promoted to vice admiral on 1 August 1972.