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Alan West, Baron West of Spithead
Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead (born 21 April 1948) is a retired senior officer of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for security and a security advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he was First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2002 to 2006. He is the current Chancellor of Southampton Solent University.
==Early career in the Royal Navy==
West was born on 21 April 1948 in Lambeth, London, and was educated at Windsor Grammar School (now known as The Windsor Boys' School) and Clydebank High School.〔''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010, ISBN 978-1-408-11414-8〕 He joined Britannia Royal Naval College in 1965 and served in HMS ''Albion'' during her standby duty for the Nigerian Civil War and circumnavigated the globe in HMS ''Whitby'', taking part in the Beira Patrol. He was confirmed as a sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1969, and promoted to lieutenant on 1 May 1970. After his command of the Ton-class minesweeper HMS ''Yarnton'' in Hong Kong in 1973, he qualified as a principal warfare officer in 1975 and then served as operations officer in the frigate HMS ''Juno'' in 1976 and then the frigate HMS ''Ambuscade'' in 1977.〔 Promoted to lieutenant commander on 1 April 1978, he attended the Royal Navy Staff College that year and then qualified as an advanced warfare officer before being posted to the destroyer HMS ''Norfolk'' in 1979.〔
In 1980 he was promoted to commander and took command of the frigate HMS ''Ardent'',〔 and deployed to the Indian Ocean taking part in the first Armilla Patrol. In 1982 he laid a wreath off Norway, on the spot inside the Arctic Circle where the previous ''Ardent'' had been sunk in 1940 by the German battleships ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Gneisenau''. Shortly after, the ship deployed to the South Atlantic for the Falklands War, where she was sunk in Falkland Sound on 21 May during the successful retaking of the islands. West was the last to leave the sinking ship and was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his leadership. West led the victory parade through the City of London on return from the Falkland Islands. He remains the President of the HMS Ardent Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Admiral the Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC )〕
In 1986, while working on the Naval Staff at the Ministry of Defence, West left documents detailing large cuts to the Navy on a canal towpath. These documents were recovered and then published by a journalist from the Mail on Sunday. At a subsequent court martial West pleaded guilty to charges of negligence and breaching security. He explained that they had fallen from his coat pocket whilst walking a friend's dog. West was issued with a severe reprimand, the second lightest sentence available. The severe reprimand that he received was time expired before he became eligible for promotion to flag rank.
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