Sir Walter Couchman | |
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Born | Madras, India | 19 March 1905
Died | 2 May 1981 Sudbury, England | (aged 76)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1918–1960 |
Rank | Admiral |
Commands held | Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (1960) Flag Officer, Air (Home) (1957–60) HMS Glory (1946) HMS Broke (1941–42) HMS Veteran (1940–41) |
Battles/wars | Second World War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Distinguished Service Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Admiral Sir Walter Thomas Couchman, KCB, CVO, DSO, OBE (19 March 1905 – 2 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff from February to November 1960, when he retired from service.
The son of Malcolm Edward Couchman, a civil servant in British India, and Emily Elizabeth Ranking, Walter Couchman was born in Madras in 1905. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Couchman joined the Royal Navy and specialized in naval aviation.[1][2]
He married Phyllida Connellan;[5] they had a son and two daughters.[2] Following the dissolution of his first marriage, he married Hughe Thelma Hunter Blair née Reid in 1965.[6] After the death of Hughe in 1972, he married Daphne Harvey, the widow of a naval captain.[2]