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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name=Captain Godfrey Alexander French<br />
|birth_date={{birth date|1900|07|1|df=yes}}<br />
|death_date={{death date and age|1988|04|10|1900|07|1|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite news |date= |year= |title=Births, Marriages, Deaths|format= |work=The Times |volume= |issue=63053 |edition= |location=London, England |publisher=Times Newspapers Limited |publication-date=12 April 1988 |agency= |page= |pages=19}}</ref><br />
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|allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|India}} <br />
|serviceyears=1913–1949<br>1952–1954<br />
|rank= [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]]<br>[[Commodore (India)|Commodore]]<br />
|commands={{HMS|Hawkins|D86|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Norfolk|78|6}}<br />
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[[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] '''Godfrey Alexander French''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (1 July 1900 – 10 April 1988) was a [[Royal Navy]] officer and the last British officer to serve as [[Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (India)|Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff]] of the [[Indian Navy]].<ref name="French_Papers">{{cite web |url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1580 |title=The Papers of Captain Godfrey Alexander French |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2005 |website=Churchill Archives Centre |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Following his cadetship from 1913–16, French was appointed [[midshipman]] in ''[[HMS Emperor of India]]'' and served in the [[Grand Fleet]].<ref name="French_Papers"/> Promoted [[sub-lieutenant]], he served as First Lieutenant of ''[[HMS Nith (1905)|HMS Nith]]'', and was an undergraduate at [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]] in 1920.<ref name="French_Papers"/> He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Military Division (CBE) in the [[1954 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40188|supp=y|page=3257|date=1 June 1954}}</ref><br />
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