Bruce Williams (Royal Navy officer)
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Bruce Nicholas Bromley Williams CBE is a Commodore in the British Royal Navy.
In late 2006 he was assigned to the command of Combined Task Force 150, a multinational squadron of ships serving under the US Fifth Fleet assigned to Maritime Security Operations in the Indian Ocean. During this command, which coincided with the war in Somalia between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), backed by the forces of Ethiopia against the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), Commodore Williams led the task force performing naval interdiction off the Somali coast of during the Battle of Ras Kamboni in January 2007 to prevent the escape of wanted terrorists associated with Al Qaeda.[1]
Commodore Williams turned over command of Task Force 150 to French Navy Rear Admiral Alain Hinden on April 4, 2007.[2]
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
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