David Clutterbuck


Sir David Granville Clutterbuck was a Royal Navy officer who became NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1966.

Naval career

Educated at, Clutterbuck joined the Royal Navy in 1929. He served in World War II on the cruiser, seeing action in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea; escorting several Malta relief convoys, landing Allied troops from Greece, and being present at the Battle of Cape Matapan. His next ship was the heavy cruiser taking part in the invasion of Sicily. After the war he commanded the destroyers and. He was appointed naval attaché in Bonn in 1954, Captain of the cruiser in 1960 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet in 1963. He went on to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1966 and retired in 1968.

Civilian life

After retiring from military life, Sir David Clutterbuck became the first Director General of the Association of MBAs in 1969.

Family

In 1937 he married Rose Mere Vaile; they had two daughters.