Alan Scott-Moncrieff

Admiral Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, KCB, CBE, DSO & Bar (3 September 1900 – 25 November 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet from 1955 to 1957.

Sir Alan Scott-Moncrieff
Scott-Moncrieff onboard HMS Faulknor in 1943
Birth nameAlan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff
Born(1900-09-03)3 September 1900
Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died25 November 1980(1980-11-25) (aged 80)
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Navy
Years of service1917–1958
RankAdmiral
Commands heldFar East Fleet (1955–57)
5th Cruiser Squadron (1951–52)
HMS Superb (1948–49)
HMS Mercury (1943–45)
8th Destroyer Flotilla (1942–43)
HMS Faulknor (1942–43)
HMS Enchantress (1939–40)
Battles/warsFirst World War
Second World War
Korean War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order & Bar
Mentioned in Despatches (3)
Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States)
King Haakon VII Freedom Cross (Norway)

Early life and education

Scott-Moncrieff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest son of Robert Lawrence Scott-Moncrieff and Victorine Troutbeck, whose father, John Brown Troutbeck, had settled in Buenos Aires. He was a cousin of Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff.[1]

He was educated at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth.[2]

When still a teenager, Scott-Moncrieff joined the Royal Navy in 1917, in the last year of the First World War,[3] serving as a midshipman in HMS Orion.[3]

Scott-Moncrieff also served in the Second World War as captain of HMS Enchantress and then as Chief Signals Officer to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten at Combined Operations Headquarters in 1941 before becoming captain of HMS Faulknor in 1942.[3]

After the war, Scott-Moncrieff was made Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and then commanded HMS Superb from 1949.[3] He was made Chairman of the Naval Advisory Committee at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1950 and second-in-command Far East Fleet and commander of 5th Cruiser Squadron in 1951.[3] He was appointed Commander of the Commonwealth Naval Forces serving in the Korean War in 1952 and Admiral commanding the Reserves in 1953.[3] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet in 1955; in September 1955 he paid an official visit to Australia.[4] He retired in 1958.[3]

References
  1. Dewar, Peter Beauclerk, ed. (2003). Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland (19 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1035. ISBN 0-9711966-0-5.
  2. "Obituary: Admiral Sir Alan Scott-Moncrieff". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 1 December 1980. p. 16.
  3. "Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Alan". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  4. Navy chief off to Australia The Straits Times, 13 September 1955, Page 2
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Charles Lambe		 Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet
1955–1957		 Succeeded by
Sir Gerald Gladstone
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