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| battles = | awards = | relations = }} Admiral Sir Ralph (Alan Bevan) Edwards KCB CBE (31 March 1901 – 4 February 1963) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. ==Naval career== Edwards joined the Royal Navy in 1914〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 and served in the battlecruiser HMS ''Tiger'' in the Grand Fleet during World War I.〔(Obituary: Admiral Sir Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards KCB, CBE ) The Times, 5 February 1963〕 He also served in World War II as Deputy Director and then as Director of the Operations Division for the Home Fleet.〔 During this time he oversaw the operation to sink the German battleship ''Bismarck''. He then became Chief of Staff for the Eastern Fleet and, from March 1945, was Captain of HMNZS ''Gambia''.〔 After the War he was made Captain of the aircraft carrier .〔 He became Assistant Chief of Naval Staff in 1948. In July, 1951, he returned to sea in command of the First Cruiser Squadron and as Flag Officer (Air), Mediterranean, hoisting his flag in his old ship the ''Gambia''.〔 From November 1951 he was also Flag Officer, Second in Command of the Mediterranean Fleet. He then became Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1953.〔 His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and NATO Commander Allied Forces Mediterranean in 1957.〔 He retired in 1958.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph Edwards (Royal Navy officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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