 Complete the following phrase:  Vice Admiral Sir Alan Wedel Ramsay McNicoll, 3 April 1908  11 October 1987 was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy RAN and a diplomat. Born in Melbourne, he entered the Royal Australian Naval College at the age of thirteen and graduated in 1926. Following training and staff appointments in Australia and the United Kingdom, he was attached to the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the Second World War. As torpedo officer of the 1st Submarine Flotilla in the 