Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay KCB MVO Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces, photographed at his London Headquarters at Norfolk House c. 1944

Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay KCB MVO Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces, photographed at his London Headquarters at Norfolk House.

Bertram Ramsay’s experience of commanding invasion fleets made him a natural choice as Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, responsible for planning and commanding Operation Neptune, the movement of the Allied invasion force across the Channel and the offshore bombardment of German defences on D-Day.