Derek Bazalgette

Derek Willoughby Bazalgette CB was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval [College, Greenwich].

Naval career

Educated at the Britannia [Royal Naval College|Royal Naval College, Dartmouth], Bazalgette joined the Royal Navy in 1938 and served in World War II with the Arctic convoys of [World War II|Arctic convoys]. While serving as Second-in-Command of the aircraft carrier HMS Centaur in 1964, he assisted in an operation to deploy 45 Commando in Dar es Salaam where the 1st Battalion Tanganyika Rifles had staged a mutiny. He became Director of Naval Operations at the Ministry of [Defence |Ministry of Defence] in 1965, Commanding Officer of the frigate HMS Aurora in 1967 and Chief of Staff to the Commander [British Forces in Hong Kong] in 1970. He went on to be Commanding Officer of the commando carrier HMS [Bulwark |HMS Bulwark] in 1972 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1974. He was promoted rear admiral on 7 July 1974, before retiring in 1976. He died in July 2007.