Vivian Fox-Strangways

Vivian Fox-Strangways CBE (born 29 July 1898, dead 21 November 1974) was a British officer (Colonel, British Army), Resident Commissioner of the partly occupied by Japan Gilbert and Ellice Islands, from 1941 to 1946. He was appointed Resident Commissioner as a Major, in Tulagi, British Solomon Islands, two days before Japan occupied Makin on 9 December 1941. His office and headquarters were placed in Funafuti (Ellice Islands), until, on 22 November 1943, he could land on Tarawa, at the end of Battle of Tarawa. The provisional headquarters of the colony stayed in Funafuti until 1946 and the rebuilding of South Tarawa with a new airport in Bonriki.[1]

From Dec 1941 to Aug 1942, being in Ocean Island, Cyril George Fox Cartwright (1920 - 1943 ca.) was acting Resident for Fox-Strangways, and the effective resident mandate of Fox-Strangways was from Aug 1942 to Nov 1945 — when he was in charge, Carl Henry Jones (1893 - 1958) was the U.S. commander Gilbert Islands Subarea (from 18 Dec 1943 to 1 Oct 1944). On November 1945, Fox-Strangways was replaced by Henry Evans Maude as acting Resident.

He was the brother of Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways, 8th Earl of Ilchester. He was educated at Winchester College in Winchester. He fought during World War I. He was with Queen Victoria's Corps or Guides and Overseas Civil Service. He was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit in 1944.[2] He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1953.