Captain Sir Walter de Mouchet Baynham KBE RD (27 July 1876 – 5 February 1936) was a British Merchant Navy and Royal Naval Reserve officer who mostly served on the ocean liner routes from Britain to Australia.
[1] He joined the Orient Steam Navigation Company and in 1908, after twelve months' full-time naval service, was appointed chief officer of RMS Ormuz.
He remained in this post until the end of 1917, taking part in the Battle of Coronel[2] and being promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-commander on 13 October 1915.
[5] In November 1917, he was appointed master of HMT Ormonde, which had been laid down as a liner in 1913 but was finally completed and launched as a troopship in February 1917.
[6] He was selected as one of the six representative Mercantile Marine captains to be appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the civilian war honours of 30 March 1920.