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Admiral Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, (3 September 1900 – 25 November 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet from 1955 to 1957.




Early life and education


Scott-Moncrieff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest son of Robert Lawrence Scott-Moncrieff and Victorine Troutbeck, whose father, John Brown Troutbeck, had settled in Buenos Aires. He was a cousin of Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff.
He was educated at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth.




Naval career


When still a teenager, Scott-Moncrieff joined the Royal Navy in 1917, in the last year of the First World War, serving as a midshipman in HMS Orion.
Scott-Moncrieff also served in the Second World War as captain of HMS Enchantress and then as Chief Signals Officer to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten at Combined Operations Headquarters in 1941 before becoming captain of HMS Faulknor in 1942.
After the war, Scott-Moncrieff was made Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and then commanded HMS Superb from 1949. He was made Chairman of the Naval Advisory Committee at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1950 and second-in-command Far East Fleet and commander of 5th Cruiser Squadron in 1951. He was appointed Commander of the Commonwealth Naval Forces serving in the Korean War in 1952 and Admiral commanding the Reserves in 1953. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet in 1955; in September 1955 he paid an official visit to Australia. He retired in 1958.




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• Far East Fleet (United Kingdom)
• King Edward VII's Hospital
• Charles Lambe
• Convoy QP 14
• HMS Cardigan Bay
• Operation Sportpalast
• Gerald Gladstone (Royal Navy officer)