Ian Easton

Admiral Sir Ian Easton, (27 November 1917 – 14 June 1989) was a Royal Navy officer who held various command positions in the 1970s.

Naval career Easton joined the Royal Navy in 1931 and qualified as a pilot at the start of the Second World War, during which he saw active service on aircraft carriers. On 4 January 1941, flying a Fairey Fulmar of 803 Naval Air Squadron from during a raid on Dakar, he force landed with his aircrewman Naval Airman James Burkey and was taken prisoner and held by the Vichy French at a camp near Timbuktu, until released in November 1942.

Easton was appointed Assistant Director of the Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1960. He was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy as captain of HMAS Watson in 1962. He retired in March 1978.