Frederic Wake-Walker

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 , and in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation at Dunkirk. Early life and education Born William Frederic Wake-Walker, he was the son of Frederic George Arthur Wake-Walker and Mary Eleanor Forster and the grandson of Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, who was Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861. 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 , the flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron. World War I By the start of World War I Wake-Walker had risen to the rank of lieutenant, and served as torpedo lieutenant on from 1913 to 1915. He was promoted to lieutenant-commander in July 1916 and after training at , was appointed to the new battleship , serving in her until the end of the war.