{{Short description|British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral (1902–1974)}} {{for|the footballer|Geoff Barnard}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral | name = Sir Geoffrey Barnard | honorific_suffix = {{postnom|country=GB|size=100%|KCB|CBE|DSO*}} | image = Geoffrey Barnard in 1944.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Barnard in 1944 | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|11|12|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|12|19|1902|11|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = St George Hanover Square, London | death_place = Petersfield, Hampshire | burial_place = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{navy|United Kingdom}} | service_years = 1916–1959 | rank = Vice-Admiral | unit = | commands = President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1956–58)<br/>Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (1953–54)<br/>{{HMIS|Delhi|1948|6}} (1950–51)<br/>{{HMS|Aurora|12|6}} (1943–45)<br/>{{HMS|Daring|H16|6}} (1935–37) | battles = First World War<br/>Second World War * Battle of Cape Matapan * Operation Torch * Operation Dragoon | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Distinguished Service Order & Bar<br/>Mentioned in Dispatches<br/>Legion of Honour (France)<br/>Croix de guerre (France) | relations = | other_work = }}
Vice-Admiral '''Sir Geoffrey Barnard''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|CBE|DSO}} & Bar (12 November 1902 – 19 December 1974) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.
==Naval career== Barnard joined the Royal Navy in 1916 during the First World War.<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BARNARD.shtml|title=Barnard, Geoffrey |publisher=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, University of London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322022514/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BARNARD.shtml|archive-date=22 March 2009}}</ref> He attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1918,<ref name=iwm>{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030024425|title=Private Papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Barnard|publisher=Imperial War Museum|access-date=19 February 2025}}</ref> and subsequently specialised in Gunnery.<ref name=lh/><ref name=iwm/> He was given command of the destroyer {{HMS|Daring|H16|6}} in 1935.<ref name=lh/><ref name=iwm/>
He served in the Second World War as Fleet Gunnery Officer and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, earning the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) at the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941,<ref name=unit>{{Cite web |url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersB2.html |title=Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945|publisher= Unit Histories |access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> and seeing action at the landings in North Africa in 1942.<ref name=lh/> He was mentioned in dispatches in connection with the landings in North Africa in April 1943,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35985|page=1813|date=16 April 1943|supp=y}}</ref> and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in September 1943.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36169|page=4073|date=10 September 1943}}</ref>
He took command of the cruiser {{HMS|Aurora|12|6}} in 1944,<ref name=lh/><ref name=cunn>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MynRmONNSLcC&pg=PA39 |title=The Cunningham Papers Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope|volume= 2|first=Andrew Browne Cunningham|last= Cunningham of Hyndhope (Viscount)|year= 1999|page=39|publisher=Ashgate for the Navy Records Society|isbn=978-0-7546-5598-5 }}</ref> and was awarded a Bar to his DSO during Operation Dragoon in 1945.<ref name=unit/>
After the War he became Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer (Air) in 1946 and Director of the Royal Navy Tactical School in 1948.<ref name=lh/><ref name=iwm/><ref name=cunn/><ref name=mackie>{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201865-.pdf|title=Senior Royal Navy appointments|access-date=19 February 2025}}</ref> He was attached to the Indian Navy and commanded the Indian Navy Squadron from 1950 before being appointed Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Warfare) in 1952.<ref name=lh/><ref name=cunn/> He became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff and a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1953<ref name=cunn/><ref name=mackie/> and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in June 1953.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39863|page=2942|date=26 May 1953|supp=y}}</ref>
He became Naval Attaché at the Joint Services Mission in Washington, D.C. in 1954.<ref name=lh/><ref name=cunn/><ref name=mackie/> His last role was as President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1956.<ref name=lh/><ref name=mackie/> He was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in June 1957,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=41089|page=3368|date=4 June 1957|supp=y}}</ref> before retiring in 1959.<ref name=lh/><ref name=mackie/>
==Family== In 1926 he married Julyan Frances Crawley; they had one son and two daughters.<ref name=unit/>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{S-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=H.N.S. Brown}} {{s-ttl|title=Commodore Commanding Indian Naval Squadron|years=1950–1951}} {{s-non|reason=Appointment upgraded}} |- {{s-new|reason=Appointment upgraded}} {{s-ttl|title=Rear Admiral Commanding Indian Naval Squadron|years=1951–1951}} {{s-aft|after=N. V. Dickinson}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir Edward Evans-Lombe}} {{s-ttl|title=Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff|years=1953–1954}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Eric Clifford}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir William Andrewes}} {{s-ttl|title=President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich|years=1956–1958}} {{s-aft|after=Earl Cairns}} {{s-end}}
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