tom tredray - Royal Navy

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TOM TREDRAY

RANK:COMMANDER JOINED:1991 SPECIALISATION:WARFARE PREVIOUS UNITS:HMS CHIDDINGFOLD, BROCKLESBY Military experience Tom Tredray was educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex and Exeter University, before joining the Royal Navy in 1991. Following Fleet training in HM Ships Shetland and Chatham, he joined the Hong Kong Squadron as the Gunnery Officer of HMS Plover in 1993. After two years operating in the Far East, he returned to the UK in 1995 to become an Officer of the Watch in the Type 23 frigate HMS Grafton, joining her while she was still under construction on the Clyde and seeing her into operational service with the Fleet. In 1997 he became an instructor on the staff at Britannia Royal Naval College, returning to sea in 1999 for a short period in HMS Birmingham, conducting boarding operations in the Gulf. In 2000 he qualified as a Principal Warfare Officer (PWO) and joined HMS Gloucester as her Gunnery Officer. His time on board included a seven month deployment to the Far East and Indian Ocean. He then joined HMS Cardiff, participating in a period of operational work up, before deploying to the Middle East in 2002. Having trained as an Air Warfare Officer in 2003, he returned to HMS Gloucester as she was conducting sea trials following a major refit. He subsequently became the ship’s Operations Officer whilst she was deployed as part of a French Task Group escorting the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during operations in the Indian Ocean. This was followed by a deployment to the South Atlantic, including time spent on patrol around the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. In 2005 he became the senior instructor on the PWO Course at the Maritime Warfare School, where he was responsible for implementing a major restructuring of the course to meet current operational requirements. In 2007 he assumed command of the Mine Hunter HMS Chiddingfold and began preparations to deploy to the Middle East, including conducting the first firing of the Seafox Mine Disposal

System by a UK MCMV. On arrival in the Gulf, Chiddingfold along with other UK and US MCMVs conducted operations in the Mine Danger Areas of the Northern Gulf, in order for them to be Reclassified as Former Mined Areas. In 2008 he and his Ship’s Company transferred to HMS Brocklesby and began preparations for joining the Standing NATO MCM Group 1. This deployment included major exercises in the Baltic and Mediterranean as well as operations to clear Second World War ordnance from the English Channel and North Sea. In 2009 he joined the UK Maritime Battle Staff. During this assignment he acted as lead planner for the final 2 Star staff embarkation in HMS Ark Royal, before being selected to attend the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the UK Defence Academy in 20011/12. Commander Tredray assumed command of HMS Iron Duke in December 2012.