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Stanley Walter Croucher Pack
British author and Royal Navy officer
Stanley Walter Croucher Pack CBE (1904–1977)[1] was an officer in the Royal Navy, and an author of several books related to maritime topics.
In 1928, while an instructor Commander at Dartmouth Naval College, he wrote a meteorology textbook entitled The Frequency Departure of Thermionic Oscillators from the L. C. Valve.[2] Decades later he wrote a book about the college, entitled Britannia at Dartmouth.
In 1953 the London Gazette reported he had been promoted from Instructor Commander to Instructor Captain.[3]
Pack was one of the UK representatives when the World Meteorological Organization's subcommittees, the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation, when it met in Toronto, in August 1953.[4]
In 1957 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.