Rear Admiral Robert George Pedre (born 8 February 1975) is a senior Royal Navy officer and current Commander United Kingdom Strike Force.

Education

He was born 8 February 1975[1] in Taunton, Somerset.[2] Pedre was educated at Davenant Foundation School, Imperial College London[2] (BSc physics, 1996) and King's College London (MA Defence Studies, 2016),[3]

Naval career

Pedre entered Britannia Royal Naval College on 18 September 1996.[4] He saw initial service in several destroyers operating in the South Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.[2] He became commanding officer of the Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel HMS Cottesmore, deployed on counter-terrorist operations in the Irish Sea, in 2003.[5] Pedre then served as Operations Officer on HMS Northumberland and organised NATO’s first counter-piracy deployment to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in 2007.[2]

He then became executive officer on the Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland, where he was involved in the evacuation of personnel from Benghazi, Libya in 2009.[2] He went on to command the Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond in 2012,[6] and the landing platform helicopter HMS Ocean in 2016.[7] Ocean served as flagship for Standing NATO Maritime Group 2[8] and took part in Operation RUMAN (humanitarian support to the British Overseas Territories), before being decommissioned in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II on 27 March 2018.[9][10]

Pedre went on to be Assistant Head Defence Strategy at the Ministry of Defence later in 2018.[2] In May 2020 he was appointed Commander Littoral Strike Group.[11]

Rear-admiral

In 2022 he was promoted to rear admiral[12] and appointed as Commander United Kingdom Strike Force in September 2022.[13] In August 2024, with his staff, he participated in a joint United States Fleet Synthetic training period.[14][15] This was the first time the Royal Navy’s Commander Strike Force had participated in the certification that all US Navy Strike Groups complete.[14][15] In October 2024 he gave the keynote speech at the Geostrategy Forum of the Council on Geostrategy on the subject of the changing character of naval warfare.[16]

References

  1. ^ Times, The (8 February 2025). "Birthdays". The Times and The Sunday Times. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Rear Admiral Robert G Pedre" (PDF). Black Sea and Balkans Security Forum. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  3. ^ "Pedre, Rear Adm. Robert George, (born 8 Feb. 1975), Commander, UK Strike Force, since 2022 (Deputy Commander, 2022)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2023
  4. ^ "No. 55340". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 December 1998. p. 13619.
  5. ^ "Trafalgar Knights" (PDF). Navy News. 1 June 2005. p. 11. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  6. ^ "HMS Richmond sets sail for the Atlantic". Ministry of Defence. 6 August 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Meet the ship's company of HMS Ocean". Royal Navy. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  8. ^ "SNMG2 flagship HMS Ocean holds Remembrance service in the Mediterranean". Naval Today. 13 November 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  9. ^ "The Queen visits Plymouth for HMS Ocean's decommissioning ceremony". plymouthherald.co.uk. 27 March 2018. Archived from the original on 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  10. ^ "Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Captain of HMS Ocean Captain Rob Pedre attend the decommissioning ceremony for HMS Ocean at HMNB Devonport in Plymouth". The North State Journal. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  11. ^ "UK'S Amphibious Forces change hands". Forces.net. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  12. ^ "No. 63875". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 November 2022. p. 21742.
  13. ^ "Challenging stereotypes changing the future: RNRMC supports seminar". Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  14. ^ a b "Royal Navy joins US Navy for virtual training to enhance carrier operations". Royal Navy. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  15. ^ a b West, Lisa (5 August 2024). "Royal Navy joins US Navy for virtual carrier ops training". UK Defence Journal. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  16. ^ "The changing character of naval warfare – Council on Geostrategy". Council on Geostrategy. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
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