Victor Brodeur

Rear-Admiral Victor Gabriel Brodeur, CB, CBE, CD (September 17, 1892 – October 6, 1976) was a Royal Canadian Navy officer.

He was a member of the first batch of cadets accepted into the RCN and the first French speaker to reach the rank of rear admiral.

[1] Appointed midshipman in 1910, he served in HMCS Niobe before being transferred to HMS Dreadnought in 1911.

In 1932, when El Salvador was in the throes of a peasant uprising and military coup overthrowing the government, Brodeusr was commanding HMCS Skeena and senior officer of the Canadian Pacific flotilla when his ship and HMCS Vancouver were directed to the port of Acajutla, in response to a request by the United Kingdom to protect British citizens and interests in the country until a Royal Navy ship could arrive.

[3][4] His son Nigel Brodeur reached the rank of vice admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.