John Clink

Rear Admiral John Robert Hamilton Clink OBE is a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland with effect from August 2014.

Naval career
Clink became Commanding Officer of HMS Ark Royal in July 2008 and Deputy Commander UK Maritime Forces in June 2011. In the latter role he commanded Combined Task Force 150, a multinational naval task force working under a 25 nation coalition of Combined Maritime Forces based in Bahrain. He went on to be Commander British Forces Gibraltar in November 2012 and Flag Officer, Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland in the rank of Rear Admiral in August 2014.

Clink was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013.