Educated at the
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Jungius was commissioned a
sub-lieutenant on 1 February 1943. He served in the Royal Navy during
World War II and took part on
commando operations in the
Adriatic Sea. During the
Italian Campaign, he took part in the capture of Termoli in
Operation Devon, for which he was
mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted to lieutenant-commander on 1 December 1951, and to commander on 31 December 1955. He took command of the
destroyer HMS Wizard during the
Suez Crisis in 1956. Promoted to captain on 30 June 1963, he was appointed Assistant Naval
attaché in
Washington D. C. in 1968 and Captain of the
aircraft carrier HMS Albion in 1971. Jungius was promoted to rear admiral on 7 July 1972 and appointed Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Operational Requirements) the same year. and was appointed
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic from January 1975. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the
Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the
1977 New Year Honours, and was appointed the
Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic's Representative in Europe in 1978. In retirement he became
Deputy Lieutenant of
Cornwall. ==Family==