Anthony Dymock

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Sir Anthony Knox Dymock
Born (1949-07-18) 18 July 1949 (age 74)
Liverpool, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1971–2008
Rank Vice Admiral
Commands held 2nd Frigate Squadron
HMS Cornwall
HMS Campbeltown
HMS Plymouth
Battles/wars Falklands War
Gulf War
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Knox Dymock, KBE , CB , FRSA (born 18 July 1949) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer.

Educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School, University of East Anglia where he graduated in Russian and Philosophy, and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Dymock joined the Royal Navy in 1971. [1] He served in the Falklands War, was promoted to commander on 30 June 1985, [2] and became commanding officer of HMS Plymouth in 1985. He was Deputy Commander of the UK Task Group during the Gulf War, and commanding officer of HMS Campbeltown in 1992. [1] He went on to be commanding officer of HMS Cornwall and captain of the 2nd Frigate Squadron in 1996, Deputy Commander of Strike Force South at NATO in 2000, [3] and Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 2002. [1] His last appointment was as UK Military Representative to NATO from 2006 until he retired in February 2009. [1]

Dymock is an alumnus of Harvard's Kennedy School Senior Executive Security Program, and has lectured on security at the National Defense University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005. He is also a Member of the Nautical Institute and a Freeman of the City of London.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Debrett's People of Today Archived 31 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "No. 50204". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 July 1985. p. 10103.
  3. ↑ Royal Navy Senior Appointments Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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Preceded by Head of the British Defence Staff in Washington, D.C.
2002–2005		Succeeded by
Preceded by UK Military Representative to NATO
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