Rupert Clare Garsia

Commander Rupert Clare Garsia (9 October 1887 – 18 February 1954) was a New Zealand-born Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy officer, and later Administrator of Nauru.

Biography Garsia was born in Christchurch in 1887 to Captain Christopher Garsia of the 79th Cameron Highlanders and Elizabeth Parker (née Watson). He attended Christchurch High School, before moving to England to complete his education on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Britannia. He resigned from the Royal Navy in April 1914 and rejoined his family, who had relocated to Tasmania. he returned to Australia and settled in Canberra. The following year he was appointed Acting Captain and became Commodore of Convoys, a post he held until 1943. He subsequently commanded the HMAS Leeuwin depot until retiring in September 1945.

Garsia died in Canberra in February 1954 of a brain hemorrhage.