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Rear Admiral Otto Humphrey Becher, CBE, DSO, DSC & Bar (13 September 1908 – 15 June 1977) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Born in Harvey, Western Australia, Becher entered the Royal Australian Naval College in 1922. After graduating in 1926, he was posted to a series of staff and training positions prior to specialising in gunnery.
A lieutenant commander at the outbreak of the Second World War, Becher assisted in the extraction of Allied troops from the Namsos region of Norway while aboard the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire, and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross. Following service in the Mediterranean theatre, he returned to Australia in 1942 as officer-in-charge of the gunnery school at HMAS Cerberus. He spent two years at Cerberus before being given command of the Q class destroyer HMAS Quickmatch in March 1944. While commanding Quickmatch in operations against Japanese forces in the Pacific, Becher earned a Bar to his Distinguished Service Cross.
At the war's end Becher was posted to the Navy Office and later to the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney; in 1951 he was given command of the destroyer HMAS Warramunga. Warramunga formed part of Australia's contribution to the United Nations forces engaged in the Korean War; Becher was promoted to captain and awarded the Distinguished Service Order while carrying out operations in Korean waters. On returning to Australia, he filled several staff positions and commanded the aircraft carriers HMAS Melbourne and HMS Vengeance. Promoted to rear admiral in 1959, he served as Flag Officer Commanding Australian Fleet from 1964 to 1965, before taking up the post of Flag Officer-in-Charge East Australia Area. Becher retired from the RAN in 1966, and died in 1977 at the age of 68.
Rear Admiral Otto Humphrey Becher, CBE, DSO, DSC & Bar (13 September 1908 – 15 June 1977) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Born...
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officer of lower rank; McNicoll was consequently replaced by Commander OttoBecher on 28 July. McNicoll was then posted to the Navy Office to assist in...
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Johann Joachim Becher (German: [ˈbɛçɐ]; 6 May 1635 – October 1682) was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer...
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Harries Henry Burrell Galfry Gatacre Hastings Harrington Alan McNicoll OttoBecher Thomas Morrison Victor Smith Richard Peek Gordon Crabb David Stevenson...
Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 23 June 2023. "Rear Admiral Humphrey OttoBecher". RAN biographies. Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 23 June 2023. "Rear...
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ship for whatever activities it is undertaking at the time Rear Admiral OttoBecher RAN Captain Joseph Burnett RAN Vice Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins...
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Harries Henry Burrell Galfry Gatacre Hastings Harrington Alan McNicoll OttoBecher Thomas Morrison Victor Smith Richard Peek Gordon Crabb David Stevenson...
Harries Henry Burrell Galfry Gatacre Hastings Harrington Alan McNicoll OttoBecher Thomas Morrison Victor Smith Richard Peek Gordon Crabb David Stevenson...
Harries Henry Burrell Galfry Gatacre Hastings Harrington Alan McNicoll OttoBecher Thomas Morrison Victor Smith Richard Peek Gordon Crabb David Stevenson...
Otto Hermann Wilhelm Moll (4 March 1915 – 28 May 1946) was an SS non-commissioned officer who committed numerous atrocities at the Auschwitz concentration...
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Otto Adolf Eichmann (/ˈaɪkmən/ EYEKH-mən, German: [ˈɔtoː ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party...
Kurt Andreas Ernst Becher (12 September 1909 – 8 August 1995) was a mid-ranking SS commander who was Commissar of all German concentration camps, and Chief...
Deutsche. "Otto I. - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 5 March 2022. Becher 2012, pp. 256–265. Becher 2012, p. 265...
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Harries Henry Burrell Galfry Gatacre Hastings Harrington Alan McNicoll OttoBecher Thomas Morrison Victor Smith Richard Peek Gordon Crabb David Stevenson...