George Fawkes


George Barney Hamley Fawkes CB, CVO, CBE was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Submarines.

Naval career

Fawkes joined the Royal Navy in 1920. He became commanding officer of the submarine HMS H50 in April 1932 and of the submarine HMS Otus in April 1935. He served in the Second World War becoming commander of the 8th Submarine Flotilla, based at Gibraltar, in December 1940 and Chief of Staff to the Rear-Admiral, Submarines in December 1943.
Fawkes went on to be Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station in November 1946, Director of the Operations Division at the Admiralty in January 1949 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet in December 1951. His last appointment was as Flag Officer Submarines in February 1954 before retiring in January 1956.

Family

In 1924 Fawkes married Winifred Joyce Deakin; they had one son. Following a divorce from his first wife, he married Suzette Flagler in 1949.