Charles Harris (Royal Navy officer)


Charles Frederick Harris CB was Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet.

Naval career

Harris was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 30 August 1906. He served as a lieutenant-commander in World War I. He became Director, Naval Air Division in 1934 and then served in World War II, initially as Flag Officer in command of the shore establishment HMS Badger and then as Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet from 1944 before retiring in 1945. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1945.