Edmund Anstice

Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice, (5 May 1899 – 30 August 1979 ) was a senior Royal Navy officer and aviator who served as Fifth Sea Lord from 1951 to 1954.

Early life and training The second son of Major John Christian Appold Anstice, he joined the Royal Navy in August 1914, and was trained at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth before seeing service in the First World War. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1918. In 1919 he was stationed at HMS President while attending a course at Cambridge University, receiving promotion to lieutenant on 15 February 1920. On 28 July 1937 he was appointed Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser in the Mediterranean Fleet, remaining there until receiving promotion to the rank of captain on 30 June 1939.

Promoted on 10 July 1948 to rear admiral, he served as Flag Officer of the Training Squadron, then from 26 August 1949 as Flag Officer, Flying Training based at RNAS Donibristle (HMS Merlin). He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1950 New Year Honours and, Anstice died on 30 August 1979.