OBITUARY : Admiral Sir Peter White - may be of interest.....

June 3, 2010

OBITUARY : Admiral Sir Peter White
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Supply officer who was at the heart of the rationalisation of the Royal
Navy's shore assets worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s..../snip/

....In the early part of the Second World War Birmingham took part in the
Norwegian campaign and the Dunkirk evacuation. White then served in the
Home Fleet flagship as secretary to the chief of staff and was present on
board the battleship King George V at the sinking of the Bismarck.

He became the "Ultra" working link between the C-in-C, the Admiralty
and Bletchley Park and was one of a very small number of people to see at
the time the remarkable effect that breaking the German codes had on the
course of the war..../snip/

- Admiral Sir Peter White, GBE, Chief of Fleet Support, 1974-77, was born
  on January 25, 1919. He died on May 22, 2010, aged 91


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7142569.ece