Frederic Wake-Walker
| Sir Frederic Wake-Walker | |
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Wake-Walker when Third Sea Lord - January 1944
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| Birth name | William Frederic Wake-Walker |
| Born | 24 March 1888 |
| Died | 24 September 1945 (aged 57) London, England |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1903–1945 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
Operation Dynamo Battle of the Denmark Strait Last battle of the battleship Bismarck |
Admiral Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker KCB CBE (24 March 1888 – 24 September 1945) was a British admiral who served in the Royal Navy during World War I and World War II, taking a leading part in the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck, and in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation at Dunkirk.
Born William Frederic Wake-Walker, he was the son of Frederic George Arthur Wake-Walker and Mary Eleanor Forster, and the grandson of Baldwin Wake Walker, Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861. He married Muriel Elsie Hughes, daughter of Sir Alfred Collingwood Hughes, 10th Bt. His son Captain Christopher Wake-Walker (1920-1998) married Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of the 7th Earl.
After attending Haileybury school, Wake-Walker entered the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth as a cadet in 1903, and went to sea the following year as midshipman aboard HMS Good Hope, the flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron.
By the start of World War I Wake-Walker had risen to the rank of lieutenant, and served as torpedo lieutenant on HMS Cochrane from 1913 to 1915. He was promoted to lieutenant-commander in July 1916 and after training at HMS Vernon, was appointed to the new battleship HMS Ramillies, serving in her until the end of the war.
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