Admiral Sir Walter Thomas Couchman, KCB, CVO, DSO, OBE (19 March 1905 – 2 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff from February to November 1960, when he retired from service.
[1] After the War he became Captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Glory and then, from 1947, Director of Naval Air Organisation and Training at the Admiralty.
[3] He became Flag Officer, Air (Home) in 1957 and Vice Chief of the Naval Staff in 1960.
[2] Following the dissolution of his first marriage, he married Hughe Thelma Hunter Blair née Reid in 1965.
[6] After the death of Hughe in 1972, he married Daphne Harvey, the widow of a naval captain.