Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral

Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...

 Sir David Anning Loram KCB

Order of the Bath

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 CVO

Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...

 (24 July 1924 – 30 June 2011) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

The Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic was one of two supreme commanders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , the other being the Supreme Allied Commander Europe . The SACLANT led Allied Command Atlantic, based at Norfolk, Virginia...

.

Naval career

Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

Britannia Royal Naval College

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, Loram served in the Royal Navy during World War II

World War II

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 and was involved as a junior officer in Operation Tungsten

Operation Tungsten

Operation Tungsten was a British naval operation during World War II. it was one of a number of aerial attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz while she was in Norwegian waters...

, the action against the German battleship Tirpitz

German battleship Tirpitz

Tirpitz was the second of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Imperial Navy, the ship was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven in November 1936 and launched two and a half years later in April...

 in April 1944. He was also the officer who fired the torpedo which in 1942 sank the cruiser HMS Edinburgh, the Royal Navy ship carrying five tons of Russian gold. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp

Aide-de-camp

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 to the Governor-General of New Zealand

Governor-General of New Zealand

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 in 1946 and Equerry

Equerry

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 to the Queen in 1954. He went on to be Flag Officer Malta in 1973, Commandant of the National Defence College

Joint Service Defence College

The Joint Service Defence College was a training academy for British military personnel in the period from 1983 to 1997. It has now been amalgamated into the Joint Services Command and Staff College.-History:...

 in 1975 and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

The Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic was one of two supreme commanders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , the other being the Supreme Allied Commander Europe . The SACLANT led Allied Command Atlantic, based at Norfolk, Virginia...

 in 1977 before retiring in 1980.

In retirement he became a Gentleman Usher to the Queen.

Family

In 1958 he married Fiona Beloe; they had three sons. Following the dissolution of his first marriage he married Diana Keigwin. That marriage was also subsequently dissolved and he married third Sara Stead-Ellis, who survives him.