Anthony Troup
Vice Admiral Sir John Anthony Rose Troup, (18 July 1921 – 8 July 2008) was a Royal Navy officer. A submariner, he served as the last Commander-in-Chief Far East Fleet (1971). Early life Born in Bath, Somerset, on 18 July 1921, Troup was the son of Hugh Rose Troup (1885–1968), an officer in the Royal Navy who played an important role in the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940. Naval career Troup studied at Pangbourne College, associated with the nautical training college HMS Worcester, until 1934. He joined the Royal Navy in 1934, and studied at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth until 1936. Troup served in the Second World War, initially on the cruisers in 1938–39 and then in 1939–40. He served on the submarine from September 1941 to early 1943, commanded by John "Tubby" Linton in the 10th Submarine Flotilla. After briefly commanding in June to August 1943, he was commanding officer of the submarine from September 1943 until the end of the war, based at Trincomalee. In January 1945, HMS Strongbow was badly battered by Japanese depth charges, but Troup nursed his severely damaged vessel across the Indian Ocean back to its base, where she assessed as unfit