Paul Halton

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Paul Halton
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Rear Admiral Halton in 2017
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1987–2023
Rank Rear Admiral
Commands held Commander Operations
HMS Spartan
Battles/wars War in Afghanistan
Awards Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Rear Admiral Paul Vincent Halton, OBE is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Commander Operations from October 2017 to November 2019.

Halton joined the Royal Navy in September 1987, [1] and went on to serve as commanding officer of the submarine HMS Spartan. [2] He was promoted to captain on 11 January 2010. [3] After becoming Flag Officer Sea Training Director (North), [4] he was deployed as Deputy Director of operations in Afghanistan in 2012. [5] He was posted as in a senior staff officer role at the Ministry of Defence in June 2013 and then became Commodore, Devonport Flotilla in March 2015. [6] He was appointed Commander Operations from October 2017. [7]

On 17 September 2019, a Jane's report said that Rear Admiral Halton was to hand over the appointment of Commander Operations and to take up the post of Rear Admiral Submarines and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, Submarines later in the year. [8] However, Halton assumed the post of Director, Submarine Readiness, Submarine Delivery Agency in January 2020. [9]

He retired from the Royal Navy in March 2023. [10]

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References

  1. "No. 51284". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 March 1988. p. 3761.
  2. "Spartan comes home for the last time". The Buteman. 24 February 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  3. "No. 59329". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 February 2010. p. 2131.
  4. "Deeps get WETT". Navy News. 1 May 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  5. Jinks, James; Hennessy, Peter (2016). The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945. Penguin. ISBN   978-0241959480.
  6. "New Commander for Devonport Flotilla". Royal Navy. 21 September 2017.
  7. "Senior Royal Navy appointments" (PDF). Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  8. "DSEI 2019: Co-operation needed to speed up UK SSN build". 17 September 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  9. Mackie, Colin (26 January 2020). "Admirals, January 2020" (PDF). gulabin.com. Colin Mackie. Retrieved 27 January 2020. Rear-Admiral Paul V. Halton: Director, Submarine Readiness, Submarine Delivery Agency, January 2020
  10. "No. 64040". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 May 2023. p. 8730.
Military offices
Preceded by Commander Operations
2017–2019
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