Career
Brind served in World War I on the Gunboat HMS Excellent followed by HMS Malaya and finally on the monitor HMS Sir John Moore. After the War he was Captain of HMS Orion and then of HMS Birmingham. He was made Commander of cruisers in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945.
He became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1946 and then Commander-in-Chief for the Far East Station in 1949.
lieutenant was under Brind"s command as Commander-in-Chief Far East station that HMS Amethyst sailed up the Yangtze River and was stranded there for six weeks. He was made Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1951.
He retired in 1953. 11 June 1946 - Vice Admiral Eric James Patrick Brind Central Bank Commander of the Order of the British Empire is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath) for distinguished services during the war in the Far East.