Guy Russell

Admiral The Honourable Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, GBE, KCB, DSO (14 April 1898 – 25 September 1977) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

He served as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet from 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War, Second Sea Lord from 1953 to 1955, and Commandant of the Imperial Defence College from 1956 until his retirement in 1958.

Russell saw service on a variety of ships, destroyers, cruisers, battleships, shore training establishments, and on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, before his relatively early promotion to commander in 1931.

[2] It was under his command that Duke of York sank the Scharnhorst at the Battle of North Cape,[2] and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order as a result, having already been twice mentioned in despatches during the war.

Returning from the Far East, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel until 1955.

Russell with Arthur William La Touche Bisset (left) at Rosyth , November 1943.