John Lea (submariner)

John Lea

Vice-Admiral Sir John Stuart Crosbie Lea, KBE (4 June 1923 - 20 May 2015) was a Royal Navy officer who went onto be Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training.

Career

John Lea spent most of his career in submarines. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and trained as an engineer, but before he finished, and still aged only 20, saw action on the Sheffield off the Amalfi coast when the ship shelled German positions, and on the Glasgow as part of Operation Stonewall. In the late 1960s, he became deputy superintendent of the Clyde submarine base where his job was to prepare for the introduction of Polaris missile-firing submarines.[1] He was appointed Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training from December 1977 to January 1980.

References

  1. ↑ Vice-Admiral Sir John Lea - obituary. The Telegraph, 16 July 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.


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