Up for auction "Chief of Naval Staff" Benjamin Bathurst Signed TLS On Letterhead dated 1990.


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Admiral of the Fleet Sir

David Benjamin Bathurst GCB, DL (born 27 May 1936) is a former Royal Navy

officer. After training as a pilot and qualifying as a helicopter instructor,

Bathurst commanded a Naval Air Squadron and then two frigates

before achieving higher command in the Navy. He served as First Sea

Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1993 to 1995: in that capacity

he advised the British Government on the deployment of Naval Support including Sea Harriers during the Bosnian War.