Patrick Brind


Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as the first Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1951 to 1953.

Naval career

Brind served in the First World War on the gunboat HMS Excellent, followed by, and finally on the monitor.
After the war, Brind was captain of and then of.
Brind also served in the Second World War as Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet from 1940 to 1942 when he became Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff. He was made commander of cruisers in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945.
Brind became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1946 and then Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Fleet in 1949. It was under Brind's command that one of his ships, sailed up the Yangtze River and was stranded there for six weeks. He was made Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1951; he retired in 1953.

Honours and awards