David Loram

Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram KCB CVO (24 July 1924 – 30 June 2011) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

Sir David Loram
Born(1924-07-24)24 July 1924
London, England
Died30 June 2011(2011-06-30) (aged 86)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankVice Admiral
Commands heldNational Defence College
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Loram served in the Royal Navy during World War II[1] and was involved as a junior officer in Operation Tungsten, the action against the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944.[2] He was also the officer who fired the torpedo which in 1942 scuttled the cruiser HMS Edinburgh, the Royal Navy ship carrying five tons of Russian gold.[3] He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand in 1946 and Equerry to the Queen in 1954.[1] He was appointed Director of Naval Operations and Trade under the Ministry of Defence Naval Staff from May 1970 to March 1971. He went on to be Flag Officer, Malta in 1973, Commandant of the National Defence College in 1975 and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1977 before retiring in 1980.[1]

In retirement he became a Gentleman Usher to the Queen.[1]

Family

In 1958 he married Fiona Beloe; they had three sons.[1] Following the dissolution of his first marriage he married Diana Keigwin.[1] That marriage was also subsequently dissolved and he married third Sara Stead-Ellis, who survives him.[1]

References
  1. Debrett's People of Today 1994
  2. Naval covers
  3. Obituary of Vice-Admiral Sir David Loram The Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2011
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