Vice Admiral Jack Percival Scatchard & Two Bars (5 September 1910 – 22 June 2001) was a senior officer in the

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. He served for a time as Flag Officer Second-in-Command of the

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Naval career

Educated at

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and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Scatchard joined the

in 1923. He fought in

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initially as First Lieutenant in the

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until it was bombed and sunk on 23 May 1941. He went on to command the destroyer and then, from late in 1943, the destroyer . He served with distinction and was awarded the

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& two Bars. After the War Scatchard became Executive Officer of RNAS Easthaven and was then appointed First Lieutenant of the

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HMS ''Vanguard'' in September 1946. He went on to serve in the Plans Division of the

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, as Captain (D) Portsmouth and as then as Chief Officer (Administration) to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. After attending the Imperial Defence College, he was appointed Captain 5th Destroyer Squadron in 1957. He became Director of Naval Equipment at the

in 1958 and Commandant of the Joint Service Defence College in 1960. He went on to be Flag Officer Second-in-Command of the

in 1962, was promoted to vice-admiral on 14 August 1963, and retired in 1964.

Family

In 1943 Scatchard married Margaret Niven: they had one daughter.

References

Royal Navy admirals 1910 births 2001 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) People educated at Aysgarth School {{UK-navy-bio-stub