Guy Sayer (Royal Navy officer)

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Sir Guy Sayer
Born1903
Died1985
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchNaval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Royal Navy
Years of service1916–1959
RankVice Admiral
Commands heldHMS Ludlow
Vice Controller and Director of Naval Equipment
Home Fleet Training Squadron
Reserve Fleet
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Cross

Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Bourchier Sayer KBE CB DSC (1903–1985) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet.

Naval career[]

After leaving Highgate School[1] Sayer joined the Royal Navy in 1916 during World War I.[2] He also served in World War II on staff of the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore from 1940, as commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Ludlow from 1940 and on the naval staff at the Admiralty from 1943.[2] He was also appointed commander of Naval Assault Force (A) for Operation Zipper, the invasion of Malaya,[3] in 1945.[2]

He became Vice Controller and Director of Naval Equipment at the Admiralty in 1953 and Flag Officer, Home Fleet Training Squadron in 1956.[2] He was Flag Officer, Helicopter Group during Operation Musketeer, the assault on Port Said during the Suez crisis, in 1956.[3] This group may have been part of . He became Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1958 before retiring in 1959,[2] whereupon he was knighted.[4]

After his retirement he spent much of his time until his death supporting his wife Sylvia in her conservation work aiming to keep the moorland of Dartmoor in Devon, England, free from anything that would spoil its natural beauty.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Thomson, W. Sinclair, ed. (1927). Highgate School Roll 1833–1922 (3rd ed.). p. 256.
  2. ^ a b c d e Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. ^ a b National Archives
  4. ^ Kelly, Matthew (2015). Quartz and Feldspar – Dartmoor: A British Landscape in Modern Times. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-22409-113-8.
  5. ^ "Sylvia Sayer as DPA Chairman". DPA News – the Newsletter of the Dartmoor Preservation Association (142): 11. May 2000.
Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Fleet
1958–1959 		Succeeded by
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