Admiral
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Sir James Henry Fuller Eberle, (31 May 1927 – 17 May 2018) was a senior officer in the
Royal Navy
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who served as
Commander-in-Chief Fleet
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from 1979 until 1981.
Naval career
Educated at
Clifton College
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and the
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
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Eberle was
commissioned into the
Royal Navy
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in 1941.
[Debrett's People of Today 1994] He served in the
Second World War
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Eberle was promoted to ]rear admiral
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in 1971 and was appointed Assistant Chief of Fleet Support the following year.[ He became Flag Officer Sea Training in 1974, Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers and Amphibious Ships in 1975 and ]Chief of Fleet Support
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in 1977.[ He went on to be ]Commander-in-Chief Fleet
The Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) was the admiral responsible for the operations of the ships, submarines and aircraft of the British Royal Navy from 1971 until April 2012. The post was subordinate to the First Sea Lord, the professional he ...
in 1979 and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in 1981; he retired in 1982.[
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Later life
In retirement Eberle became Director of the Royal Institute for International Affairs
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.[ He was also ]Rear Admiral
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and then Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom
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and became Master of the Britannia Beagles hunt.[
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Personal life
In 1950 Eberle married Ann Patricia Thompson; they went on to have one son, Peter, and two daughters, Susan and Sarah
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.[ Eberle died in May 2018 at the age of 90.]
References
Sources
* Eberle, James ''From Greenland's Icy Shore'', Roundtuit Publishing, 2007;
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1927 births
2018 deaths
Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
People educated at Clifton College
Royal Navy admirals
Royal Navy officers of World War II
Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers