Gerald Gladstone (Royal Navy officer)

Gladstone was educated at the Cathedral School, Llandaff, before joining the Royal Naval College, Osborne, on the Isle of Wight in May 1915.[1]

Gladstone joined the Royal Navy in 1915.[2] He served in the First World War aboard HMS Tiger.[2]

Gladstone also served in the Second World War as executive officer on HMS Fiji and then, from 1941, as Commanding Officer of HMS Pelican on Atlantic convoy duties.[2] He was made Assistant Director for Torpedoes and Mining Deputy at the Admiralty in 1942.[2]

After the war, Gladstone was captain of HMS Black Prince and then Captain of the Fleet in the Mediterranean Fleet from 1947.[2] He was given command of HMS Vanguard in 1949 and appointed Commander of the Royal Navy Barracks at Chatham in 1950.[2] He became Vice Controller of the Royal Navy and Director of Naval Equipment in 1952 and second-in-command of the Far East Fleet and Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron in 1953.[2] He was appointed North Atlantic Treaty Organization Commander, Allied Naval Forces, Northern Europe in 1955 and Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet in 1957; he took part in Queensland's Centenary Celebrations in 1959.[3]

Gladstone retired in 1960.[2]

On 16 December 1925 at Brompton Oratory, London, Gladstone married Marjorie Cecilia Mary (Justine) Johnston, daughter of John Goring Johnston of New Zealand. They had two sons and a daughter. Justine died in 1964.[4]

In 1966, Gladstone married Dora Brown, née Stewart, his second wife.[5] He predeceased his second wife, who died in December 2006.[5]