1. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald was a senior Royal Navy officer.
16 Facts About Julian Oswald
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Julian Oswald served as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in the early 1990s.
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Julian Oswald joined the Royal Navy as a cadet on 1 May 1947.
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Julian Oswald then served in the battleship HMS Vanguard and then the frigate HMS Verulam.
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HMS Excellent maintains the gun carriage used for state funerals, and Julian Oswald was the Funeral Gun Carriage Officer for the Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965.
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Julian Oswald was posted to the frigate HMS Naiad in September 1966 and promoted to commander on 31 December 1968 on his appointment to the Directorate of Naval Plans at the Ministry of Defence.
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Julian Oswald was given command of the frigate HMS Bacchante in January 1971 and then joined the staff of the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence in 1972.
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Julian Oswald went on to be Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in June 1980.
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Julian Oswald was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen on 7 July 1982 and was promoted to rear admiral on 2 September 1982 on his appointment as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff.
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Julian Oswald became Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in January 1985 and went on to become Flag Officer, Third Flotilla and Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Striking Fleet in October 1985.
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Julian Oswald was promoted to full admiral on 29 May 1987, on appointment as Commander-in-Chief Fleet and NATO Commander-in-Chief, Channel and Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic.
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Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1989 New Year Honours, Julian Oswald became First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in May 1989.
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Julian Oswald was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on his retirement in March 1993.
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In retirement Julian Oswald became Chairman of Aerosystems International and of Sema Group plc, an Information Technology business, until the latter was acquired in 2001.
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Julian Oswald was President of the Sea Cadet Association, vice-president of the Royal United Services Institute and a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum.
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Julian Oswald died at his home at Shedfield in Hampshire on 19 July 2011.