Royal Navy Senior Appointments from 1865

Updated October 2020

I: ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, 1865-

CONTENTS:

(a) ADMIRALTY/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE: page 2

(b) HOME COMMANDS: page 64

(d) SQUADRONS: page 194

(e) TRAINING AND EDUCATION: page 252

(f) ROYAL MARINES: page 279

(a) ADMIRALTY/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

INDEX:

Air Division/Air Warfare, Naval, Director of: page 41 Deputy Director: page 42 Anti-Submarine Warfare/Torpedoes, Anti-Submarine and Minewarfare/Undersurface Warfare, Director of: page 38 Deputy Director: page 39 Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff- page 18 (Air): page 20 (Capability) (see Third Sea Lord) (Carriers and Aviation) (see Flag Officer, Naval Air Command-page 86) (Foreign): page 19 (Home): page 19 (Operations/ and Air): page 20 (Personnel) (see Naval Secretary) (Policy): page 18 (Submarines) (see Flag Officer, Submarines-page 88) (Trade): page 19 (Warfare/Operational Requirements): page 20 (Weapons): page 19 Contract-Built Ships, Commodore: page 62 Controller of the Navy (see Third Sea Lord) Deputy Controller: pages 53 and 54 Vice-Controller: page 53 Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff: pages 13, 15 and Deputy First Sea Lord: page 6 Drafting, Naval, Commodore: page 63 Equipment, Naval, Director of: page 53 Deputy Director: page 54 Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services: page 13 First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff: page 5 Fourth Sea Lord/Junior Sea Lord: page 11 Fleet Support (see Fourth Sea Lord)

Gunnery/Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare/Surface Warfare/ Warfare, Director of: page 36 Deputy Director: page 37 Intelligence, Naval, Director of: page 21 Deputy Director: page 22 Manning, Director of: page 49 Manpower and Training, Naval, Director-General of: page 44 Materiel (Fleet), Chief of (see Fourth Sea Lord) Minesweeping, Naval, Director of: page 43 Deputy Director: page 43 Mobilisation, Director of: page 49 Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord: page 59 Naval Assistant to Naval Secretary: page 62 Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord: page 61 Naval Secretary/Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty: page 16 Navigation, Director of: page 57 Deputy Director: page 57 Officer Appointments (Seamen), Director of: Operational Requirements, Director of: page 35 Deputy Director: page 35 Operations/Operations and Trade, Naval, Director of: page 23 Deputy Director/Deputy Director(Foreign): page 26 Deputy Director/Deputy Director(Home): page 25 Ordnance, Naval, Director of: page 51 Deputy Director: page 52 People Capability, Assistant Chief of Staff (see Personnel Strategy) Personal Services, Director of/Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Personal Services)/Director-General of Personnel and Officer Appointments/Director-General of Naval Personnel and Training: page 46 Deputy Director of Personal Services: page 47 Personnel, Director of: page 47 Personnel Strategy, Director of: page 48 Personnel (Officer Appointments), Naval, Deputy Chief of: page 47 Personnel (Personal Services), Naval, Deputy Chief of (see Personal Services) Personnel (Training), Naval, Deputy Chief of (see Manpower and Training

Personnel and Officer Appointments, Naval, Director-General of (see Personal Services) Personnel and Training, Naval, Director-General of (see Personal Services) Plans/Plans and Resources, Naval, Director of: page 27 Deputy Director: page 29 Plans, Defence(Naval), Director of: page 30 Deputy Director: page 30 Policy, Defence(Naval), Director of: page 30 Precision Attack, Capability Manager: page 10 Public Relations, Naval, Director of: page 58 Recruiting, Naval, Director of: page 50 Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel: page 7 Service Conditions, Naval, Director of: page 48 Signals, Director of: page 55 Deputy Director: page 56 Staff Duties/Navay Staff (see Tactical Division) Strategic Systems Executive, Chief: page 63 Tactical Division/Tactical and Weapons Policy/Navy Staff Duties/ Naval Staff, Director of: page 32 Deputy Director: page 33 Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy: page 9 Vice-Controller: Deputy Controller: Torpedo Division, Director of: page 43 Deputy Director: page 43 Torpedoes and Mining, Director of: page 39 Deputy Director: page 40 Trade Division, Director of: page 34 Deputy Director: page 34 Training, Naval, Director/Director-General of: pages 44 and 45 Deputy Director: page 45 Training and Recruitment, Flag Officer (see Manpower and Training) Training and Staff Duties/Tactical and Staff Duties, Director of: page 31 Deputy Director: page 33 Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff: page 14 Warfare (see Gunnery)

First Sea Lord (and Chief of the Naval Staff from 191 ):

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard S. Dundas: June 1859-June 1861 Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick W. Grey: June 1861-July 1866 Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne: July 1866-December 1868 Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres: December 1868-November 1872 Admiral Sir Alexander Milne: November 1872-September 1876 Admiral Sir Hastings R.H. Yelverton: September 1876-November 1877 Admiral George G. Wellesley: November 1877-August 1879 Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key: August 1879-July 1885 Admiral Sir Arthur W.A. Hood: July 1885-March 1886 Admiral Lord John Hay: March-August 1886 Admiral Sir Arthur W.A. Hood: August 1886-July 1889 Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton: October 1889-September 1891 Admiral Sir Anthony H. Hoskins: September 1891-November 1893 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick W. Richards: November 1893-August 1899 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter T. Kerr: August 1899-October 1904 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher: October 1904-January 1910 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur K. Wilson: January 1910-December 1911 Admiral Sir Francis C.B. Bridgeman: December 1911-December 1912 Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: December 1912-October 1914 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher: October 1914-May 1915 Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson: May 1915-December 1916 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John R. Jellicoe: December 1916-December 1917 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rosslyn E. Wemyss: December 1917-November 1919 Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: November 1919-July 1927 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: July 1927-July 1930 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick L. Field: July 1930-January 1933 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield: January 1933-September 1938 Admiral Sir Roger R.C. Backhouse: September 1938-June 1939 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Sir A. Dudley P.R. Pound: June 1939-September 1943 Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope: October 1943-May 1946 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John H.D. Cunningham: May 1946-September 1948 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape: September 1948-December 1951 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: December 1951-April 1955 Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma: April 1955-May 1959 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles E. Lambe: May 1959-May 1960 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John: May 1960-August 1963 Admiral Sir J. David Luce: August 1963-1966 6

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl C. Begg: March 1966-August 1968 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu: August 1968-July 1970 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter J. Hill-Norton: July 1970-March 1971 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael P. Pollock: March 1971-March 1974 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward B. Ashmore: March 1974-March 1977 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Terence T. Lewin: March 1977-July 1979 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry C. Leach: July 1979-December 1982 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John D.E. Fieldhouse: December 1982-August 1985 Admiral of the Fleet Sir William D.M. Staveley: August 1985-May 1989 Admiral of the Fleet Sir J.Julian R. Oswald: May 1989-March 1992 Admiral of the Fleet Sir D. Benjamin Bathurst: March 1992-July 1995 Admiral Sir Jock C.K. Slater: July 1995-October 1998 Admiral Sir Michael C. Boyce: October 1998-January 2001 Admiral Sir Nigel R. Essenhigh: January 2001-September 2002 Admiral Sir Alan W.J. West: September 2002-February 2006 Admiral Sir Jonathon Band: February 2006-July 2009 Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope: July 2009-April 2013 Admiral Sir George M. Zambellas: April 2013-April 2016 Admiral Sir Philip A. Jones: April 2016-June 2019 Admiral Anthony D. Radakin: June 2019-

Deputy First Sea Lord (from 1917 until 1919 and from 1942 until 1946):

Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn E.Wemyss: October-December 1917 Rear-Admiral Sir George P.W.Hope: January 1918-August 1919 Admiral Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis: July 1942-May 1946

Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (from 2016); (and Chief of Naval Personnel and Training from 2012 until 2016; and Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command from 1995 until 2012):

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Frederick T. Pelham: June 1859-June 1861 Vice-Admiral Charles Eden: June 1861-July 1866 Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres: July 1866-December 1868 Vacant: 1868-1872 Vice-Admiral Sir John W. Tarleton: May 1872-December 1874 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey T. Phipps Hornby: December 1874-January 1877 Rear-Admiral Arthur W. A. Hood: January 1877-December 1879 Rear-Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam: December 1879-May 1880 Vice-Admiral Lord John Hay: May 1880-March 1883 Admiral Lord Alcester: March 1883-July 1885 Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony H.Hoskins: July 1885-December 1888 Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton: December 1888-October 1889 Vice-Admiral Henry Fairfax: October 1889-May 1892 Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards: May 1892-November 1893 Vice-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: November 1893-May 1895 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick G.D. Bedford: May 1895-May 1899 Vice-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: May-August 1899 Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald L. Douglas: August 1899-June 1902 Admiral Sir John A. Fisher: June 1902-October 1903 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles C. Drury: October 1903-May 1907 Admiral Sir William H. May: May 1907-March 1909 Vice-Admiral Sir Francis C. Bridgeman: March 1909-March 1911 Vice-Admiral Sir George le C. Egerton: March –December 1911 Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: December 1911-December 1912 Vice-Admiral Sir John R.Jellicoe: December 1912-July 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick T.Hamilton: July1914 -June 1916 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: June-November 1916 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: November 1916-September 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn E.Wemyss: September 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert L. Heath: September 1917-March 1919 Admiral Sir Montague E. Browning: March 1919-September 1920 Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver: September 1920-August 1924 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: August 1924-April 1925 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Hubert G. Brand: April 1925-August 1927 Admiral Sir Michael H. Hodges: August 1927-May 1930 Admiral Sir Cyril T. M. Fuller: May 1930-August 1932 8

Admiral Sir A. Dudley P. R. Pound: August 1932-September 1935 Admiral Sir Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: September 1935-September 1938 Admiral Sir Charles J. C. Little: September 1938-June 1941 Admiral Sir William J. Whitworth: June 1941-March 1944 Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis: March 1944-February 1946 Admiral Sir Arthur J. Power: February 1946-March 1948 Admiral Sir Cecil H.J. Harcourt: March 1948-September 1950 Admiral Sir Alexander C.G. Madden: September 1950-September 1953 Admiral the Hon. Sir Guy H.E. Russell: September 1953-October 1955 Admiral Sir Charles E. Lambe: October 1955-October 1957 Vice-Admiral Deric D.E. Holland-Martin: October 1957-December 1959 Admiral Sir St.John R.J. Tyrwhitt, Bt.: December 1959-September 1961 Admiral Sir Royston H. Wright: September 1961-April 1965 Admiral Sir Desmond P. Dreyer: April 1965-January 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter J. Hill-Norton: January-August 1967 Admiral Sir Frank R. Twiss: August 1967-March 1970 Admiral Sir Andrew M. Lewis: March 1970-December 1971 Admiral Sir L. Derek Empson: December 1971-May 1974 Admiral Sir David Williams: May 1974-February 1977 Admiral Sir A. Gordon Tait: February 1977-September 1979 Admiral Sir A. Desmond Cassidi: September 1979-November 1982 Admiral Sir Simon A.C. Cassels: November 1982-January 1986 Admiral Sir Richard G.A. Fitch: January 1986-September 1988 Admiral Sir Brian T. Brown: September 1988-April 1991 Admiral Sir Michael H. Livesay: April 1991-April 1992 Admiral Sir Michael H.G. Layard: April 1992-May 1995 Admiral Sir Michael C. Boyce: May 1995-September 1997 Admiral Sir John R. Brigstocke: September 1997-2000 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Spencer: January 2000-January 2003 Vice-Admiral Sir James M. Burnell-Nugent: January 2003-October 2005 Vice-Admiral Sir Adrian J. Johns: October 2005-July 2008 Vice-Admiral Sir Alan M. Massey: July 2008-July 2010 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles P.R. Montgomery: July 2010-October 2012 Vice-Admiral Sir David G. Steel: October 2012-March 2015 Vice-Admiral Sir S. Jonathan Woodcock: March 2015-March 2018 Vice-Admiral Anthony D. Radakin: March 2018-April 2019 Vice-Admiral Nicholas W. Hine: April 2019-

Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy (Third Sea Lord only until December 1868 and from 1912 until 1918; Controller only from April 1872 until April 1882 and from 1965 until 2003; Controller and Director, Land Maritime from 2003 until 2006; Controller and Director- General, Nuclear from 2006 until 2009; Controller and Capability Manager/Director (Precision Attack) from 2009 until 2012; Controller and Director, Maritime Capability and Transformation from 2012 until 2013; Controller, Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Capability) and Chief of Staff, Navy Command HQ from 2013 until 2018; Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Capability) since 2018):

Captain Charles Eden: June 1859-June 1861 Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick: June 1861-March 1865 Rear-Admiral Edward G. Fanshawe: March 1865-July 1866 Rear-Admiral George H. Seymour: July 1866-December 1868 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert S. Robinson: December 1868-February 1871 (Controller from February 1861) Captain Robert Hall: February 1871-May 1872 Admiral Sir William H. Stewart: April 1872-December 1881 Vice-Admiral Thomas E. Brandreth: December 1881-February 1886 Vice-Admiral Sir William Graham: February 1886-July 1888 Vice-Admiral John O. Hopkins: July 1888-February 1891 Vice-Admiral Sir John A. Fisher: February 1891-August 1897 Rear-Admiral Arthur K. Wilson: August 1897-April 1901 Rear-Admiral Sir William H. May: April 1901-February 1905 Rear-Admiral Sir Henry B.Jackson: February 1905-October 1908 Rear-Admiral Sir John R.Jellicoe: October 1908-December 1910 Rear-Admiral Charles J.Briggs: December 1910-June 1912 Rear-Admiral Sir Archibald G.H.W. Moore: June 1912-September 1914 Rear-Admiral Frederick C.T.Tudor: September 1914-May 1917 Rear-Admiral Lionel Halsey: May 1917-June 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Charles M. de Bartolome: June 1918-July 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir William C. M. Nicholson: July 1919-April 1920 Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field: April 1920-May 1923 Rear-Admiral Cyril T. M. Fuller: May 1923-April 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir A. Ernle M. Chatfield: April 1925-September 1928 Vice-Admiral Roger R. C. Backhouse: November 1928-March 1932 Vice-Admiral Charles M. Forbes: March 1932-April 1934 Admiral Sir Reginald G. H. Henderson: April 1934-March 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser: March 1939-May 1942 Admiral Sir W. Frederic Wake-Walker: May 1942-September 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles S. Daniel: December 1945-June 1949 10

Admiral Sir Michael M. Denny: June 1949-April 1953 Admiral Sir Ralph A.B. Edwards: April 1953-October 1956 Admiral Sir J. Peter L. Reid: October 1956-November 1961 Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu: November 1961-July 1965 Admiral Sir Horace R. Law: July 1965-January 1970 Admiral Sir Michael P. Pollock: January 1970-January 1971 Admiral Sir Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: January 1971-December 1975 Admiral Sir Richard P. Clayton: December 1975-January 1979 Vice-Admiral Sir John D.E. Fieldhouse: January 1979-March 1981 Admiral Sir Lindsay S. Bryson: March 1981-November 1984 Admiral Sir Derek R. Reffell: November 1984-August 1989 Admiral Sir Kenneth J. Eaton: August 1989-May 1994 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Walmsley: May 1994-April 1996 Rear-Admiral Frederick P. Scourse: April 1996-February 1997 Rear-Admiral Peter Spencer: February 1997-January 2000 Rear-Admiral Nigel C. F. Guild: January 2000-December 2003 Rear-Admiral Richard F. Cheadle: December 2003-April 2006 Rear-Admiral Andrew D.H. Mathews: April 2006-2007 Rear-Admiral Paul Lambert: 2007-March 2009 Rear-Admiral Amjad M. Hussain: March 2009-February 2012 Rear-Admiral Henry H. Parker: February 2012-April 2013 Rear-Admiral Duncan L. Potts: April 2013-September 2014 Rear-Admiral James A. Morse: September 2014-May 2016 Rear-Admiral Paul M. Bennett: May 2016-November 2017 Major-General Robert A. Magowan: November 2017-November 2018 Rear-Admiral Hugh D. Beard: November 2018-January 2020 Rear-Admiral Andrew P. Burns: January 2020-

Capability Manager(Strategic Deployment from 1999 until 2002; Strategic Deployment and Precision Attack from 2002 until 2004; Precision Attack from 2004 until 2013; Carrier Strike from 2013):

Rear-Admiral Rees G.J. Ward: 1999-January 2002 Rear-Admiral Charles R. Style: January 2002-May 2004 Rear-Admiral Trevor A. Soar: May 2004-October 2006 Rear-Admiral Paul Lambert: October 2006-March 2009 Rear-Admiral Amjad M. Hussain: March 2009-February 2012 Rear-Admiral Henry H. Parker: February 2012-May 2014 Rear-Admiral Graeme A. Mackay: May 2014-January 2018 Rear-Admiral Matthew P. Briers: January 2018- 11

Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport(Junior Sea Lord from 1868 until 1904; Chief of Fleet Support from 1964 until 2000 and from 2017; Navy Board Member for Logistics from 2000 until 2005; Director-General of Logistics(Fleet) from 2005 until 2007 ; Chief of Materiel Fleet since 2007 until 2017):

Captain Charles Frederick: June 1859-June 1861 Rear-Admiral the Hon. James R. Drummond: June 1861-May 1866 Captain Lord John Hay: May-July 1866 Rear-Admiral Sir John C. Dalrymple Hay, Bt.: July 1866-December 1868 Rear-Admiral Lord John Hay: December 1868-June 1871 Rear-Admiral John W. Tarleton: June 1871-May 1872 Rear-Admiral F. Beauchamp P. Seymour: May 1872-May 1874 Rear-Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam: May 1874-December 1879 Rear-Admiral Sir John E.Commerell: December 1879-May 1880 Rear-Admiral Anthony H.Hoskins: May 1880-July 1882 Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards: July 1882-May 1885 Vice-Admiral Sir William N.W.Hewett: May-July 1885 Captain William Codrington: July 1885-February 1886 Rear-Admiral James E.Erskine: February-August 1886 Captain Lord Charles W. de la P. Beresford: August 1886-January 1888 Rear-Admiral Charles F. Hotham: January 1888-December 1889 Rear-Admiral Frederick G.D. Bedford: December 1889-August 1892 Rear-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: August 1892-November 1893 Rear-Admiral Gerard H.U. Noel: November 1893-January 1898 Rear-Admiral Arthur W. Moore: January 1898-February 1901 Rear-Admiral John Durnford: February 1901-December 1903 Rear-Admiral Frederick S. Inglefield: December 1903-March 1907 Rear-Admiral Alfred L.Winsloe: March 1907-January 1910 Rear-Admiral Charles E.Madden: January 1910-December 1911 Rear-Admiral William C.Pakenham: December 1911-December 1913 Rear-Admiral Cecil F.Lambert: December 1913-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Lionel Halsey: December 1916-May 1917 Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh H.D.Tothill: May 1917-June 1919 Captain Sir A. Ernle M. Chatfield: June 1919-February 1920 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Algernon D. E. H. Boyle: February 1920-April 1924 Rear-Admiral John D. Kelly: April 1924-April 1927 Rear-Admiral William W. Fisher: April 1927-April 1928 Vice-Admiral Vernon H. S. Haggard: April 1928-April 1930 Vice-Admiral Lionel G. Preston: April 1930-September 1932 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake: September 1932-February 1935 12

Vice-Admiral Sir Percy L. H. Noble: February 1935-October 1937 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot: October 1937-April 1941 Vice-Admiral Sir John H. D. Cunningham: April 1941-May 1943 Vice-Admiral Frank H. Pegram: May 1943-March 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur F. E. Palliser: March 1944-January 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir Douglas B. Fisher: January 1946-March 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert A. Packer: March 1948-June 1950 Vice-Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma: June 1950-February 1952 Vice-Admiral Sydney M. Raw: February 1952-March 1954 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick R. Parham: March 1954-September 1955 Vice-Admiral R. Dymock Watson: September 1955-January 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir A. Gordon V. Hubback: January-November 1958 Vice-Admiral Nicholas A. Copeman: November 1958-October 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir J. Michael Villiers: October 1960-October 1963 Vice-Admiral Sir Raymond S. Hawkins: October 1963-June 1967 Admiral Sir A. Francis Turner: June 1967-June 1971 Vice-Admiral Sir G.F. Allan Trewby: June 1971-June 1974 Admiral Sir Peter White: June 1974-April 1977 Vice-Admiral Sir James H.F. Eberle: April 1977-April 1979 Vice-Admiral Sir William T. Pillar: April 1979-October 1981 Vice-Admiral Sir James E.C. Kennon: October 1981-December 1983 Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony S. Tippet: December 1983-December 1986 Vice-Admiral Sir D. Benjamin Bathurst: December 1986-March 1989 Vice-Admiral Sir Jock C.K. Slater: March 1989-January 1991 Vice-Admiral Sir Neville Purvis: January 1991-February 1994 Vice-Admiral Sir R. Toby Frere: February 1994-May 1997 Vice-Admiral Sir John H. Dunt: May 1997-April 2000 Rear-Admiral B. Brian Perowne: April-December 2000 Rear-Admiral Jonathon Reeve: December 2000-September 2004 Rear-Admiral R. Paul Boissier: September 2004-September 2006 Rear-Admiral Amjad M. Hussain: September 2006-January 2007 Vice-Admiral Sir Trevor A. Soar: January 2007-May 2009 Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew D.H. Mathews: May 2009-December 2013 Vice-Admiral Sir Simon R. Lister: December 2013-May 2017 Vice-Admiral Christopher R.S. Gardner: April 2019-

Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services (from 1938 until 1942 and from 1943 until 1964; and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff from 1957):

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander R. M. Ramsay: July 1938-November 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir Guy C.C.Royle: November 1939-April 1941 Rear-Admiral A. Lumley St. G. Lyster: April 1941-July 1942 Vice-Admiral Denis W. Boyd: January 1943-May 1945 Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas H. Troubridge: May 1945-September 1946 Admiral Sir Philip L. Vian: September 1946-September 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Creasy: September 1948-October 1949 Vice-Admiral Maurice J. Mansergh: October 1949-October 1951 Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund W. Anstice: October 1951-April 1954 Vice-Admiral Alexander N.C. Bingley: April 1954-October 1957 Vice-Admiral Sir Manley L. Power: October 1957-February 1959 Admiral Sir Laurence G. Durlacher: February 1959-January 1962 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter W. Gretton: January 1962-January 1963 Vice-Admiral Sir Frank H.E. Hopkins: January 1963-1964

Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff (from 1941 until 1985):

Vice-Admiral Sir Henry M. Moore: October 1941-June 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir E. Neville Syfret: June 1943-October 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: October 1945-October 1947 Admiral Sir John H. Edelsten: October 1947-November 1949 Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Creasy: November 1949-October 1951 Admiral Sir Guy Grantham: October 1951-April 1954 Admiral Sir William W. Davis: April 1954-May 1957 Admiral Sir Caspar John : May 1957-February 1960 Admiral Sir Walter T. Couchman: February- November 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir Varyl C. Begg: January 1961-February 1963 Vice-Admiral Sir John B. Frewen: February 1963-April 1965 Vice-Admiral Sir John F.D. Bush: April 1965-August 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter J. Hill-Norton: August 1967-December 1968 Vice-Admiral Sir Edward B. Ashmore: December 1968-January 1971 Vice-Admiral Sir Terence T. Lewin: January 1971-October 1973 Vice-Admiral Sir John D. Treacher: October 1973-April 1975 Admiral Sir Raymond D. Lygo: April 1975-January 1978 Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony S. Morton: January 1978-July 1980 Vice-Admiral Sir William D.M. Staveley: July 1980-October 1982 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter M. Stanford: October 1982-1985

Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (until 1968; from 1957 until 1964 see Fifth Sea Lord ; from 2012 until 2016 see Fleet Commander; from 2016 see Second Sea Lord ):

Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F.Oliver: July 1917-January 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney R. Fremantle: January 1918-May 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir James A.Fergusson: May-August 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Osmond de B. Brock: August 1919-November 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir Roger J. B. Keyes, Bt.: November 1921-May 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field: May 1925-May 1928 Vice-Admiral Sir William W. Fisher: May 1928-June 1930 Admiral Sir Frederic C. Dreyer: June 1930-January 1933 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles J. C. Little: January 1933-October 1935 Vice-Admiral Sir William M. James: October 1935-October 1938 Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham: October 1938-May 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir Tom S. V. Phillips: June 1939-October 1941 Rear-Admiral Robert D. Oliver: April 1946-April 1947 Vice-Admiral Edward M. Evans-Lombe: December 1950-January 1953 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Barnard: January 1953-April 1954 Vice-Admiral Sir Eric G.A. Clifford: April 1954-1957 Vice-Admiral Sir Frank H.E. Hopkins: January 1963-March 1966 Vice-Admiral H.Richard B. Janvrin: March 1966-1968

Naval Secretary(Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty until 1912; and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff(Personnel ) from 2012): Captain Thomas Brandreth: March 1867-December 1868 Rear-Admiral F. Beauchamp P. Seymour: December 1868-July 1870 Captain Chandos S.S. Stanhope: July 1870-April 1871 Captain George Tryon: April 1871-October 1873 Captain Henry Fairfax: October 1873-March 1874 Captain Michael Culme-Seymour: March 1874-April 1876 Captain William Codrington: April 1876-June 1881 Captain John O. Hopkins: June 1881-January 1883 Captain Lewis A. Beaumont: January 1883-July 1885 Rear-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: July 1885-November 1889 Rear-Admiral Alfred T. Dale: November 1889-September 1892 Captain Richard H. Hamond: September 1892-July 1894 Captain the Hon. Hedworth Lambton: July 1894-April 1897 Captain Wilmot H. Fawkes: April 1897-November 1899 Captain the Hon. Maurice A. Bourke: November 1899-September 1900 Rear-Admiral Wilmot H. Fawkes: November 1900-October 1902 Captain the Hon. Hugh Tyrwhitt: October 1902-October 1905 Captain Hugh Evan-Thomas: October 1905-December 1908 Captain Charles E. Madden: December 1908-January 1910 Rear-Admiral Ernest C. T. Troubridge: January 1910-January 1912 Rear-Admiral David R. Beatty: January 1912-March 1913 Rear-Admiral Dudley R. S. de Chair: March 1913-August 1914 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Horace L.A.Hood: August-October 1914 Rear-Admiral Henry F.Oliver: October-November 1914 Commodore Charles M. de Bartolome: November 1914-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Allan F.Everett: December 1916-October 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Rudolf W. Bentinck: October 1918-May 1921 Rear-Admiral Hugh D. R. Watson: May 1921-June 1923 Rear-Admiral Michael H. Hodges: June 1923-April 1925 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Hubert G. Brand: April 1925 Rear-Admiral Frank Larken: April 1925-April 1927 Rear-Admiral Eric J. A. Fullerton: April 1927-October 1929 Rear-Admiral George K. Chetwode: October 1929-January 1932 Rear-Admiral Sidney J. Meyrick: January 1932-September 1934 Rear-Admiral Guy C. C. Royle: September 1934-May 1937 Rear-Admiral William J. Whitworth: May 1937-May 1939 Rear-Admiral Stuart S. Bonham-Carter: May 1939-November 1939 Rear-Admiral E. Neville Syfret: November 1939-June 1941 17

Rear-Admiral Arthur M. Peters: June 1941-October 1942 Rear-Admiral Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton: October 1942-February 1944 Rear-Admiral Cecil H. J. Harcourt: February 1944-February 1945 Rear-Admiral Claud B. Barry: February 1945-April 1946 Rear-Admiral Maurice J. Mansergh: April 1946-April 1948 Rear-Admiral Peveril B.R.W. William-Powlett: April 1948-April 1950 Rear-Admiral William W. Davis: April 1950-May 1952 Rear-Admiral Richard G. Onslow: May 1952-August 1954 Rear-Admiral J. David Luce: August 1954-August 1956 Rear-Admiral R. Alastair Ewing: August 1956-April 1958 Rear-Admiral John G. Hamilton: April 1958-April 1960 Rear-Admiral Frank R. Twiss: April 1960-July 1962 Rear-Admiral John O.C. Hayes: July 1962-July 1964 Rear-Admiral William D. O’Brien: July 1964-January 1966 Rear-Admiral Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: January-March 1966 Rear-Admiral John G.B. Cooke: March 1966-November 1967 Rear-Admiral David A. Dunbar-Nasmith: November 1967-March 1970 Rear-Admiral Iwan G. Raikes: March 1970-September 1972 Rear-Admiral A. Gordon Tait: September 1972-November 1974 Rear-Admiral John M. Forbes: November 1974-November 1976 Rear-Admiral Peter W. Buchanan: November 1976-November 1978 Rear-Admiral Paul W. Greening: November 1978-November 1980 Rear-Admiral Richard G.A. Fitch: November 1980-April 1983 Rear-Admiral W. Richard S. Thomas: April 1983-February 1985 Rear-Admiral Roger C. Dimmock: February 1985-February 1987 Rear-Admiral Norman R.D. King: February 1987-March 1988 Rear-Admiral David S. Dobson: March 1988-December 1990 Rear-Admiral C. Christopher Morgan: December 1990-October 1992 Rear-Admiral Malcolm G. Rutherford: October 1992-March 1994 Rear-Admiral Alan W.J. West: March 1994-January 1996 Rear-Admiral Fabian M. Malbon: January 1996-December 1998 Rear-Admiral Jeremy M. de Halpert: December 1998-January 2002 Rear-Admiral Mark W.G. Kerr: January 2002-September 2004 Rear-Admiral Peter J. Wilkinson: September 2004-June 2005 Rear-Admiral Richard J. Ibbotson: June 2005-April 2007 Rear-Admiral Charles P.R. Montgomery: April 2007-April 2010 Rear-Admiral David G. Steel: April 2010-September 2012 Rear-Admiral S. Jonathan Woodcock: September 2012-March 2015 Rear-Admiral Simon P. Williams: March 2015-June 2018 Rear-Admiral Michael A.W. Bath: June 2018-January 2020 18

Rear-Admiral Philip J. Hally: January 2020-

Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff(Policy from 1966 until 1984 and from 2012): Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander L. Duff: May 1917-August 1919 Rear-Admiral James A. Fergusson: August 1919-February 1920 Rear-Admiral Sir A. Ernle M. Chatfield: February 1920-September 1922 Rear-Admiral Cyril T. M. Fuller: September 1922-May 1923 Rear-Admiral Arthur K. Waistell: May 1923-October 1924 Rear-Admiral Frederic C. Dreyer: October 1924-April 1927 Rear-Admiral A. Dudley P. R. Pound: April 1927-April 1929 Rear-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson: April 1929-May 1931 Rear-Admiral John K. im Thurn: May 1931-February 1933 Rear-Admiral Sidney R. Bailey: February 1933-July 1934 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis: July 1934-October 1936 Rear-Admiral John H. D. Cunningham: October 1936-August 1937 Rear-Admiral Lancelot E. Holland: August 1937-January 1939 Rear-Admiral Harold M. Burrough: January 1939-September 1940 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey N. Oliver: December 1946-August 1948 Rear-Admiral Ralph A.B. Edwards: August 1948-February 1951 Rear-Admiral Eric G.A. Clifford: February 1951-June 1952 Rear-Admiral Robert F. Elkins: June 1952-August 1954 Rear-Admiral Michael G. Goodenough: August 1954-January 1956 Rear-Admiral Royston H. Wright: January 1956-February 1958 Rear-Admiral Desmond P. Dreyer: February 1958-November 1959 Rear-Admiral Antony B. Cole: November 1959-February 1962 Rear-Admiral Peter J. Hill-Norton: February 1962-March 1964 Rear-Admiral Michael P. Pollock: March 1964-April 1966 Rear-Admiral John H. Adams: April 1966-January 1968 Rear-Admiral Terence T. Lewin: January 1968-June 1969 Rear-Admiral Ian Easton: June 1969-April 1971 Rear-Admiral Henry C. Leach: April 1971-November 1973 Rear-Admiral Peter E.C. Berger: November 1973-December 1975 Rear-Admiral Michael L. Stacey: December 1975-July 1976 Rear-Admiral Bryan J. Straker: July 1976-June 1978 Rear-Admiral James E.C. Kennon: June 1978-December 1979 Rear-Admiral Derek R. Reffell: December 1979-December 1981 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey T.J.O. Dalton: December 1981-October 1984 Rear-Admiral J.Jeremy Black: October 1984-July 1986 Rear-Admiral Michael H. Livesay: July 1986-December 1988 Rear-Admiral Hugo M. White: December 1988-February 1991 19

Rear-Admiral Peter C. Abbott: February 1991-September 1993 Rear-Admiral John R. Brigstocke: September 1993-March 1995 Rear-Admiral Jeremy J. Blackham: March 1995-May 1997 Rear-Admiral Jonathan Band: May 1997-December 1999 Rear-Admiral James M. Burnell-Nugent: December 1999-April 2001 Rear-Admiral Timothy P. McClement: April 2001-May 2003 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Johns: May 2003-July 2005 Rear-Admiral Alan M. Massey: July 2005-February 2008 Rear-Admiral Robert G. Cooling: February 2008-June 2009 Rear-Admiral Philip A. Jones: June 2009-December 2011 Rear-Admiral Matthew J. Parr: December 2011-May 2013 Rear-Admiral Clive C.C. Johnstone: May 2013-September 2015 Rear-Admiral Nicholas W. Hine: September 2015-January 2019 Major-General Gwyn S.G. Jenkins: January 2019-

Home :

Rear-Admiral Arthur J. Power: May 1940-May 1942 Rear-Admiral E. J. Patrick Brind: May 1942-August 1944 Rear-Admiral E. Desmond B. McCarthy: August 1944-October 1945

Foreign :

Rear-Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood: December 1940-April 1942 Rear-Admiral H. Bernard H. Rawlings: April 1942-February 1943 Rear-Admiral Reginald M. Servaes: February 1943-March 1945 Rear-Admiral E.Gerald H. Bellars: March-October 1945

Trade :

Vice-Admiral Henry M. Moore: July 1940-October 1941 Vice-Admiral Edward L. S. King: October 1941-December 1942 Rear-Admiral John H. Edelsten: December 1942-October 1944 Rear-Admiral John G. L. Dundas: October 1944-March 1945 Rear-Admiral John M. Mansfield: March-? 1945

Weapons : Rear-Admiral Rhoderick R. McGrigor: September 1941-March 1943 Rear-Admiral Wilfrid R. Patterson: March 1943-February 1945 Rear-Admiral Robert D. Oliver: February 1945-April 1946 20

Air :

Rear-Admiral Reginald H. Portal: January 1943-November 1944 Rear-Admiral Lachlan D. Mackintosh of Mackintosh: November 1944-August 1945 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Lambe: August 1945-1947

Operations(and Air from 1968; until 1984):

Rear-Admiral E. Desmond B. McCarthy: October 1945-1946 Rear-Admiral Josef C. Bartosik: April 1966-July 1968 Rear-Admiral L. Derek Empson: July 1968-July 1969 Rear-Admiral Douglas G. Parker: July 1969-June 1971 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Austin: June 1971-June 1973 Rear-Admiral James W.D. Cook: June 1973-February 1975 Rear-Admiral C.R. Peter C. Branson: February 1975-February 1977 Rear-Admiral J. Roger S. Gerard-Pearse: February 1977-January 1979 Rear-Admiral Martin La T. Wemyss: January 1979-January 1981 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Whetstone: January 1981-April 1983 Rear-Admiral Linley E. Middleton: April 1983-July 1984 Rear-Admiral Kenneth A. Snow: July-October 1984

Warfare(Operational Requirements from 1968 until 1985):

Rear-Admiral Arthur R. Pedder: January 1953-October 1954 Rear-Admiral William J. Yendell: October 1954-July 1957 Rear-Admiral Henry C. N. Rolfe: July 1957-June 1960 Rear-Admiral Maurice J. Ross: June 1960-October 1963 Rear-Admiral John G.B. Cooke: October 1963-March 1966 Rear-Admiral Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: March 1966-May 1968 Rear-Admiral J. Rae McKaig: May 1968-October 1970 Rear-Admiral Philip R.C. Higham: October 1970-October 1972 Rear-Admiral James G. Jungius: October 1972-November 1974 Rear-Admiral Alan G. Watson: November 1974-November 1976 Rear-Admiral Stephen F. Berthon: November 1976-February 1978 Rear-Admiral Simon A.C. Cassels: February 1978-December 1980 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Stanford: December 1980-September 1982 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey G.W. Marsh: September 1982-May 1984

Rear-Admiral John B. Kerr: September 1984-January 1985

Director of Naval Intelligence :

Captain William H. Hall: February 1887-January 1889 Rear-Admiral Cyprian A.G. Bridge: January 1889-August 1894 Rear-Admiral Lewis A. Beaumont: September 1894-March 1899 Rear-Admiral Reginald N. Custance: March 1899-November 1902 Rear-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: November 1902-January 1905 Captain Sir Charles L. Ottley: February 1905-October 1907 Rear-Admiral Edmond J. W. Slade: November 1907-March 1909 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E. Bethell: March 1909-January 1912 Captain Thomas Jackson: January 1912-October 1913 Rear-Admiral Henry F.Oliver: November 1913-October 1914 Rear-Admiral Sir W.Reginald Hall: October 1914-January 1919 Rear-Admiral Hugh F.P.Sinclair: January 1919-August 1921 Rear-Admiral Maurice S.Fitzmaurice: August 1921-August 1924 Rear-Admiral Alan G.Hotham: August 1924-August 1927 Rear-Admiral Barry E. Domvile: August 1927-August 1930 Rear-Admiral Cecil V. Usborne: August 1930-August 1932 Rear-Admiral Gerald L. C. Dickens: August 1932-July 1935 Vice-Admiral James A. G. Troup: July 1935-February 1939 Vice-Admiral John H. Godfrey: February 1939-November 1942 Rear-Admiral Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke: November 1942-July 1946 Vice-Admiral W.Edward Parry: July 1946-May 1948 Rear-Admiral Eric W. Longley-Cook: May 1948-August 1951 Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony W. Buzzard, Bt.: August 1951-July 1954 Vice-Admiral Sir John G.T. Inglis: July 1954-January 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir Norman E. Denning: January 1960-January 1964 Rear-Admiral Patrick W.W. Graham: January 1964-February 1965 Commodore Michael D. Kyrle-Pope: February 1965-1967 Commodore Edward M.B. Hoare: 1967-1969 Commodore Charles R. Sims: 1969-1971 Commodore G. Roger Villar: 1971-October 1973 Commodore Roy W. Halliday: October 1973-May 1975 Commodore John A. F. Lawson: May 1975-May 1977 Commodore Gerard Hayne: May 1977-June 1979 Commodore Richard J.F. Turner: April 1979-June 1981 Commodore Anthony J. Dunn: June 1981-June 1984

Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence :

Captain Raymond A. Nugent: 1918-January 1919 Captain William M. James: January 1919-March 1920 Captain Geoffrey Hopwood: March 1920-April 1922 Captain Edward O. Cochrane: April 1922-August 1923 Captain George K. Chetwode: August 1923-May 1925 Captain Kenneth G.B. Dewar: May 1925-June 1927 Captain Cecil B. Prickett: June 1927-June 1929 Captain Alfred E. Evans: June 1929-April 1930 Captain Gerald C. Harrison: April 1930-April 1932 Captain W.E. Campbell Tait: April 1932-November 1933 Captain George A. Scott: November 1933-December 1935 Captain the Hon. Claude P. Hermon-Hodge: December 1935-February 1938 Captain Geoffrey C. Cooke: February 1938-February 1940 Captain W. Derek Stephens: February 1940-January 1941 Captain Ian M.R. Campbell: February 1941-April 1942 Captain Charles A.G. Nichols: April 1942-May 1944 Captain Ian M.R. Campbell: May 1944-1945 Captain A. Joe Baker-Cresswell: March 1948-March 1951 Captain Thomas J.N. Hilken: March 1951-November 1953 Captain Charles E. Keys: November 1953-January 1956 Captain George F.M. Best: January 1956-January 1958 Captain Nigel H.G. Austen: January 1958-September 1959 Captain Anthony Davies: September 1959-October 1962 Captain William P.B. Barber: October 1962-1965

Director of Naval Operations( from 1912 until 2003; and Trade from 1961 until ):

Captain George A. Ballard: January 1912-May 1914 Rear-Admiral Arthur Leveson: May 1914-January 1915 Rear-Admiral Thomas Jackson: January 1915-June 1917 Rear-Admiral George P. W.Hope: June 1917-January 1918 Captain A. Dudley P.R.Pound: January 1918-July 1919 (Home) Captain Charles P.R.Coode: January 1918-July 1919 (Foreign) Rear-Admiral John D. Kelly: July 1919- February 1922 Captain Henry W. Parker: February 1922-November 1923 Captain Wilfred Tomkinson: November 1923-April 1926 Captain Frank F. Rose: April 1926-March 1928 Captain Percy L. H. Noble: March 1928-January 1930 Captain Dudley B. N. North: January 1930-July 1932 Captain Charles G. Brodie: July-December 1932 Captain Francis H. W. Goolden: December 1932-December 1933 Captain Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: December 1933-December 1935 Captain Charles H. Knox-Little: December 1935-July 1938 Captain Charles M. Blackman: July 1938-December 1939 (Home)Captain Cecil H. J. Harcourt: September 1939-February 1941 (Home)Captain Ralph A. B. Edwards: February-December 1941 (Home)Captain John A.S. Eccles: December 1941-October 1943 (Home)Captain C. T. Mark Pizey: December 1943-? 1945 (Foreign)Captain Robert H.Bevan: September 1939-September 1940 (Foreign)Captain Gerald H. Warner: September 1940-March 1941 (Foreign)Captain John Terry: March 1941-August 1942 (Foreign)Captain Angus D. Nicholl: August 1942-August 1944 (Foreign)Captain Frederick R. Parham: August 1944-January 1947 Captain Charles H. Duffett: January 1947-January 1949 Captain George B.H. Fawkes: January 1949-July 1951 Captain Patrick W. Brock: July 1951-October 1953 Captain John S.S. Litchfield: October 1953-December 1954 Captain Peter D.H.R. Pelly: December 1954-June 1956 Captain Walter Evershed: June 1956-June 1957 Captain Bryan C. Durant: June 1957-January 1959 Captain Eric V. St.J. Morgan: January 1959-May 1960 Captain Michael G. Haworth: May 1960-July 1961 Captain Ian M. Clegg: July 1961-January 1964 Captain Ian W. McLaughlan: January 1964-February 1966 Captain Geoffrey C. Mitchell: February 1966-November 1967 24

Captain Terence L. Martin: November 1967-May 1970 Captain David A. Loram: May 1970-March 1971 Captain Dennis W. Foster: March 1971-1972 Captain David W. Brown: ?-November 1972 Captain Gwynedd I. Pritchard: November 1972-July 1974 Captain John M.H. Cox: July 1974-April 1976 Captain Michael C. Henry: April 1976-March 1978 Captain George M.F. Vallings: March 1978-May 1980 Captain Brian R. Outhwaite: May 1980-February 1982 Captain John Garnier: February 1982-January 1985 Captain A. Peter Woodhead: January 1985-June 1986 Captain Geoffrey R.W. Biggs: June 1986-October 1989 Captain John S. Lang: October 1989-1991

Captain Peter J. Cowling: 1992-1994 Commodore Christopher W. Roddis: 1994-1996 Captain Martin D. Macpherson: 1996-1998 Commodore David G. Snelson: 1998-1999 Commodore Philip L. Wilcocks: 1999-2001 Commodore Andrew P. Dickson: 2001-February 2003 Commodore Peter J.F. Eberle: February-March 2003

Deputy Director of Operations (Home from 1940 until 1947):

Captain Henry W. Grant: July 1917-January 1918 Captain Bernard St.G. Collard: January 1918-February 1920 Captain Arthur de K. L. May: January-September 1919 Captain Hubert H. Holland: September 1919-January 1920 Captain Sidney R. Bailey: February 1920-March 1921 Captain Henry G.E. Lane: April 1920-September 1921 Captain Charles D. Burke: March 1921-April 1922 Captain Alister F. Beal: September 1921-July 1923 Captain Wilfred Tomkinson: July-November 1923 Captain Ambrose M. Peck: November 1923-October 1925 Captain Frank F. Rose: October 1925-April 1926 Captain Francis M. Austin: April 1926-August 1927 Captain Geoffrey Layton: August 1927-August 1929 Captain Robert R. Turner: August 1929-August 1931 Captain Francis H.W. Goolden: August 1931-December 1932 Captain Ernest J. Spooner: December 1932-July 1934 Captain Ronald W. Blacklock: July 1934-July 1936 Captain Irving M. Palmer: July 1936-September 1938 Captain Cecil H.J. Harcourt: September 1938-September 1939 Captain Ralph A.B. Edwards: October 1939-February 1941 Captain John F. Stevens: February 1941-August 1942 Captain Wilfred J.C. Robertson: August 1942-December 1943 Captain Francis B. Lloyd: December 1943-March 1945 Captain Christopher T. Jellicoe: March 1945-1947

Deputy Director of Operations (Foreign until 1947; and Trade from 1961):

Captain Gerald H. Warner: February-September 1940 Captain John Terry: September 1940-March 1941 Captain William W. Davis: March 1941-January 1942 Captain Hugh Dalrymple-Smith: January 1942-November 1943 Captain Ronald G. Mackay: November 1943-March 1946 Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell: March 1946-March 1948 Captain William H. Selby: March 1948-April 1950 Captain Ralph C. Medley: April 1950-April 1952 Captain John S.M. Richardson: April 1952-January 1954 Captain Peter Phipps: January 1954-March 1955 Captain John Plunkett-Cole: March 1955-January 1957 Captain N.F. Carrington: January 1957-February 1958 Captain Josef C. Bartosik: February 1958-April 1959 Captain Richard I. Peek: April 1959-December 1960 Captain J.A. Murray: December 1960-September 1961 Captain Roland F. Plugge: September 1961-November 1963 Captain A. Gordon Tait: November 1963-March 1965 Captain Derek F. Bazalgette: March 1965-May 1967 Captain Stanley L. McArdle: May 1967-January 1969 Captain David A. Loram: January 1969-January 1971 Captain Dennis W. Foster: January-March 1971 Captain David W. Brown: March 1971-

Director of Naval Plans(from 1917; and Resources from until 2012; Head of Financial and Military Capability from 2012 until 2014):

Rear-Admiral Roger J.B. Keyes: September 1917-January 1918 Captain Cyril T.M.Fuller: January 1918-May 1920 Captain Barry E. Domvile: May 1920-May 1922 Captain A. Dudley P.R.Pound: May 1922-March 1925 Captain Wilfrid A. Egerton: March 1925-January 1928 Captain Roger M. Bellairs: January 1928-December 1930 Captain John H. D. Cunningham: December 1930-December 1932 Captain Henry R. Moore: December 1932-November 1933 Captain Edward L. S. King: November 1933-August 1935 Captain Tom S. V. Phillips: August 1935-April 1938 Captain Victor H. Danckwerts: April 1938-March 1940 Captain Charles S. Daniel: March 1940-July 1941 Captain E. Gerald H. Bellars: July 1941-March 1942 Captain Charles E. Lambe: March 1942-April 1944 Captain Guy Grantham: April 1944-January 1946 Captain John F. Stevens: January 1946-January 1948 Captain Thomas M. Brownrigg: January 1948-January 1950 Captain R. Dymock Watson: January 1950-April 1952 Captain Deric D.E. Holland-Martin: April 1952-November 1953 Captain Hector C.D. MacLean: November 1953-January 1956 Captain E. Duncan G. Lewin: January 1956-December 1957 Captain Richard M. Smeeton: December 1957-April 1959 Captain John F.D. Bush: April 1959-November 1960 Captain Edward B. Ashmore: November 1960-December 1961 Captain Andrew M. Lewis: December 1961-September 1963 Captain Peter W.B. Ashmore: September 1963-January 1966 Captain David Williams: January 1966-February 1968 Captain Henry C. Leach: February 1968-January 1970 Captain A. Desmond Cassidi: January 1970-May 1972 Captain Bryan J. Straker: May 1972-February 1974 Captain William D.M. Staveley: February 1974-August 1976 Captain Nicholas J.S. Hunt: August 1976-June 1978 Captain John F. Woodward: June 1978-April 1981 Captain John B. Kerr: April 1981-December 1982 Captain Barry N. Wilson: December 1982-December 1985 Captain Peter C. Abbott: January 1986-1989 Captain Jeremy J. Blackham: 1989-1992 28

Commodore Nigel R. Essenhigh: 1992-1994 Commodore Stephen R. Meyer: 1994-1997 Commodore Rory A.I. McLean: 1997-1998 Captain R. Paul Boissier: 1998-1999

Commodore Timothy J.H. Laurence: 2001-2004 Commodore Christopher A. Snow: 2004-September 2005 Commodore Peter D. Hudson: September 2005-December 2007 Commodore Timothy P. Fraser: December 2007-May 2010 Brigadier David A. Hook: May 2010-May 2011 Commodore Benjamin J. Key: May-November 2011 Commodore John M.L. Kingwell: November 2011-September 2013 Commodore Nicholas S. Roberts: September 2013-April 2014

Deputy Director of Plans (from August 1919):

Captain Barry E. Domvile: August 1919-May 1920 Captain Gerald L.C. Dickens: May 1920-June 1922 Captain John C. Hamilton: June 1922-May 1924 Captain Wilfrid A. Egerton: May 1924-March 1925 Captain T. Hugh Binney: April 1925-August 1927 Captain Stephen D. Tillard: August 1927-May 1928 Captain G. Frederick B. Edward-Collins: May 1928-December 1929 Captain John H.D. Cunningham: December 1929-December 1930 Captain Henry R. Moore: December 1930-Deember 1932 Captain Edward L.S. King: December 1932-December 1933 Captain John H. Godfrey: November 1933-December 1935 Captain E. Neville Syfret: December 1935-December 1937 Captain John H. Edelsten: December 1937-March 1940 Captain E. Gerald H. Bellars: March 1940-July 1941 Captain Charles E. Lambe: July 1941-January 1942 Captain Douglas H. Everett: January 1942-January 1943 Captain Robert K. Dickson: January 1943-November 1944 Captain Godfrey A. French: December 1944-July 1946 Captain Manley L. Power: February-July 1946 Captain Harold G. Dickinson: June 1946-December 1948 Captain Peter G.L. Cazalet: July 1946-1947 Captain J. David Luce: December 1948-February 1951 Captain Arthur R. Pedder: January 1949-February 1950 Captain Harold S. Hopkins: September 1951-February 1953 Captain Thomas D. Ross: February 1953-January 1954 Captain Robert P.S. Grant: January-December 1954 Captain Charles P. Coke: December 1954-December 1956 Captain Edward T. Graham: December 1956-December 1958 Captain Raymond Hart: December 1958-June 1960 Captain Edward B. Ashmore: June-November 1960 Captain Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: November 1960-December 1962 Captain Peter W.B. Ashmore: December 1962-July 1963 Captain Frank S. Hope: July 1966-November 1968 Captain George A. de G. Kitchin: November 1968-September 1970 Captain Anthony S. Tippet: September 1970-1972 Captain John F. Woodward: September 1972-June 1974

Director of Defence Plans(Naval):

Commodore David A. Dunbar-Nasmith: July 1963-January 1965 Captain E. Gerard N. Mansfield: January 1965-January 1967 Captain Edward F. Gueritz: January 1967-January 1968 Captain Iwan G. Raikes: January-December 1968 Commodore H.C. Nicholas Goodhart: December 1968-June 1970

Deputy Director:

Captain John C.Y. Roxburgh: April 1964-April 1965 Captain W.David S. Scott: April 1965-September 1966 Captain Charles B. Fetherston-Dilke: September 1966-

Director of Defence Policy(Naval):

Commodore Colin C.H. Dunlop: 1968-May 1969 Commodore Stephen F. Berthon: May 1969-May 1971 Commodore James F.R. Weir: May 1971-August 1973 Commodore Benjamin C. Perowne: August 1973-January 1976 Commodore Rhoderick S. Falconer: January 1976-October 1977 Commodore John R. Hill: October 1977-August 1980 Commodore Vincent M. Howard: August 1980-March 1982 Commodore Richard G. Heaslip: March 1982-1983

Director of Training and Staff Duties (Tactical and Staff Duties from 1945 until 1958):

Rear-Admiral James C. Ley: December 1917-April 1918 Captain Herbert W. Richmond: April 1918-January 1919 Captain Walter M. Ellerton: January 1919-December 1921 Captain Vernon H.S.Haggard: December 1921-September 1923 Captain Hugh J.Tweedie: September 1923-January 1926 Captain Arthur L. Snagge: January-July 1926 Captain Sidney J.Meyrick: July 1926-July 1927 Captain Noel F. Laurence: July 1927-April 1928 Captain Isham W. Gibson: April-December 1928 Captain Bernard W.M. Fairbairn: December 1928-April 1929 Captain Edward O. Cochrane: April 1929-August 1931 Captain James S. M. Ritchie: August 1931-June 1933 Captain Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot: June 1933-March 1934 Captain Frederick A. Buckley: March 1934-May 1936 Captain A. Lumley St. G. Lyster: May 1936-September 1937 Captain William L.Jackson: September 1937-April 1940 Captain James W. Rivett-Carnac: April 1940-July 1941 Captain Richard V. Symonds-Tayler: July 1941-July 1942 Captain Harry P. K. Oram: July 1942-June 1945 Captain Charles L. Robertson: June 1945-May 1947 Captain Royer M. Dick: May 1947-November 1948 Captain Richard G. Onslow: November 1948-April 1951 Captain W.Kaye Edden: April 1951-October 1953 Captain Walter A. Adair: October 1953-November 1955 Captain Guy W. Hawkins: November 1955-January 1958

Director, Tactical Division (from 1925 until 1939; and Tactical and Weapons Policy from 1958 until 1968): Captain Alfred H.Taylor: February 1925-January 1927 Captain Bruce A. Fraser: January 1927-Deceember 1928 Captain Henry G. Thursfield: December 1928-May 1930 Captain Charles D.Burke: May 1930-May 1932 Captain John G.Crace: May 1932-May 1934 Captain Denis W.Boyd: May 1934-January 1936 Captain Colin Cantlie: January 1936-January 1938 Captain Douglas A.Budgen: January 1938-May 1939 Captain Maurice J. Ross: February 1958-September 1959 Captain Hugh C. Martell: September 1959-1962 Captain H. Richard B. Janvrin: March 1962-December 1963 Captain Terence T. Lewin: December 1963-December 1965 Captain Ian Easton: December 1965-1968

Director of Navy Staff Duties (from 1985; Director of the Naval Staff from 200 ): Captain Roger C. Dimmock: January-February 1985 Captain E. S. Jeremy Larken: February-April 1985 Captain the Hon. Nicholas J. Hill-Norton: April 1985-June 1987 Captain Geoffrey W.R. Biggs: June 1987-August 1989 Captain Michael C. Boyce: August 1989-April 1991 Captain Michael P. Gretton: April 1991-July 1993 Captain Alan W.J. West: July 1993-1994 Commodore John H.S. McAnally: 1994-1995 Commodore Christopher D. Stanford: 1995-1997 Brigadier Robert A. Fry: 1997-1999 Commodore David G. Snelson: 1999-September 2000 Commodore Trevor A. Soar: September 2000-August 2002 Commodore Robert G. Cooling: August 2002-2003 Commodore Michael Kimmons: 2003-February 2005 Commodore Thomas A. Cunningham: February 2005-June 2007 Brigadier Francis H.R. Howes: June 2007-April 2008 Commodore Clive C.C. Johnstone: April-December 2008 Commodore Robert K. Tarrant: December 2008-August 2011 Commodore Neil L. Brown: August 2011-November 2013 Brigadier Peter S. Cameron: November 2013-April 2014 Commodore James M. Lines: April 2014-February 2016 Commodore Nicholas S. Roberts: February 2016-September 2017 Commodore Iain S. Lower: September 2017-February 2020 33

Commodore Paul S. Beattie: February 2020-

Deputy Director of Training and Staff Duties/Tactical, Torpedo and Staff Duties/ Tactical and Staff Duties/Tactical and Weapons Policy (until 1968):

Captain Edward A. Astley-Rushton: February 1919-February 1921 Captain Charles A. Scott: February 1921-November 1922 Captain Lachlan D.I. MacKinnon: July 1928-July 1930 Captain Harold M. Burrough: December 1928-March 1930 Captain Hubert Ardill: March 1930-March 1932 Captain W. Frederic Wake-Walker: July 1930-August 1932 Captain Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot: March 1932-June 1933 Captain Frederic N. Attwood: August 1932-August 1934 Captain Douglas B. Fisher: August-October 1933 Captain Frederick A. Buckley: October 1933-March 1934 Captain John C. Leach: March 1934-March 1936 Captain Rhoderick R. McGrigor: August 1934-August 1936 Captain Henry C. Bovell: March 1936-1938 Captain Harold T.C. Walker: August 1936-1938 Captain Reginald M. Servaes: March-May 1939 Captain E. Desmond B. McCarthy: May 1938-April 1940 Captain Geoffrey N. Oliver: May 1939-October 1940 Captain Eric W. Longley-Cook: October 1940-July 1941 Captain R. Oliver-Bellasis: July 1941-August 1942 Captain Jocelyn S.C. Salter: August 1942-April 1944 Captain Guy B. Sayer: March 1943-May 1945 Captain St. John Cronyn: April 1944-November 1945 Captain Ben J. Fisher: May 1945-February 1947 Captain Harry P. Currey: November 1945-October 1947 Captain Gerald T. Coney: February 1947-April 1949 Captain Peter D.H.R. Pelly: October 1947-October 1949 Captain Hector C.D. MacLean: April 1949-October 1950 Captain Geoffrey M. Sladen: October 1949-November 1951 Captain Rowland F. Leonard: October 1950-1952 Captain Viscount Jocelyn: November 1951-1954 Captain Talbot L. Eddison: September 1952-1954 Captain Albert H.F. Hunt: July 1954-March 1956 Captain Edward A.S. Bailey: November 1954-October 1956 Captain Michael N. Tufnell: March 1956-1958 34

Captain John G. Wells: October 1956-1958 Captain Hugh Murray-Clark: March 1958-July 1959 Captain Terence T. Lewin: November 1958-November 1960 Captain Joseph L. Blackham: July 1959-June 1961 Captain Edward F. Gueritz: June 1961-September 1963 Captain Ian S. McIntosh: September 1963-April 1966 Captain Alan G. Watson: April 1966- 1968

Director of Trade Division (from 1914 until 1928 and from 1939 until 1961):

Captain Richard Webb: August 1914-October 1917 Captain Alan G.Hotham: October 1917-May 1920 Captain Charles J.C.Little: May 1920-May 1922 Captain David T.Norris: May 1922-April 1924 Captain Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: April 1924-January 1926 Captain Richard A.S. Hill: January 1926-May 1928 Captain Maurice J. Mansergh: May 1939-April 1941 Captain Brian B. Schofield: April 1941-January 1943 Captain Reginald M. Servaes: January-February 1943 Captain W. Derek Stephens: July 1943-July 1945 Captain Peter Skelton: July 1945-May 1946 Captain Thomas L. Bratt: May 1946-April 1948 Captain Robert J. O.Otway-Ruthven: April 1948-May 1950 Captain Michael B. Laing: May 1950-June 1952 Captain George A.F. Norfolk: June 1952-June 1954 Captain Geoffrey H. Peters: June 1954-January 1957 Captain Edmund T. Larken: January 1957-July 1958 Captain Charles W. Malins: July 1958-July 1961

Deputy Director of Trade Division( from 1939):

Captain George R.G. Allen: May 1939-August 1942 Captain Colin J.L. Bittleston: August 1942- Captain Francis B. Lloyd: June-December 1943 Captain Peter Skelton: December 1943-July 1945

Director of Operational Requirements (from 1968 until 1999):

Captain Raymond P. Dannreuther: June 1968-February 1970 Captain Richard P. Clayton: February 1970-1972 Captain Ronald D. Butt: ?-October 1972 Captain Cecil E. Price: October 1972-August 1973 Captain O. Nigel A. Cecil: August 1973-May 1975 Captain David J. Hallifax: May 1975-December 1977 Captain David M. Eckersley-Maslin: December 1977-January 1980 Captain J. Jeremy Black: January 1980-September 1981 Captain Robin I.T. Hogg: September 1981-January 1984 Captain John F. Coward: January 1984-1987 Captain Robert Walmsley: 1987-1989 Commodore Ian D.G. Garnett: 1989-1992 Commodore Peter Spencer: 1992-1995 Commodore Rees J.G. Ward: 1995-1997 Commodore Philip D. Greenish: 1997-1999

Deputy Director of Operational Requirements:

Captain Joseph D. Honywill: January 1969-January 1970 Captain Roger C. Morgan: January 1970-

Captain Richard E. Lambert: March 1975-December 1976

Captain Gordon F. Walwyn: April 1979-July 1981

Director of Gunnery(Artillery and Torpedoes from 1918 until 1920; until 1928; Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare from 1941 until ; Surface Warfare from ; Warfare from 1969):

Captain Frederic C. Dreyer: June 1918-February 1919 Captain John W.L. McClintock: February 1919-April 1920 Captain Frederic C.Dreyer: April 1920-April 1922 Captain Bernard St. G. Collard: April 1922-April 1924 Captain Humphrey T.Walwyn: April 1924-March 1926 Captain H.J.Studholme Brownrigg: March 1926-April 1927 Captain Bernard W.M.Fairbairn: April 1927-December 1928 Captain Gerald M.B. Langley: July 1941-September 1943 Captain Edward M. Evans-Lombe: December 1943-July 1944 Captain Alex C. Chapman: July 1944-July 1946 Captain Robert F. Elkins: July 1946-July 1948 Captain George H. Oswald: July 1948-July 1950 Captain Edward K. Le Mesurier: July 1950-August 1952 Captain John Y. Thompson: August 1952-November 1954 Captain Herbert G. T. Padfield: November 1954-November 1956 Captain Ian F.M. Newnham: November 1956-November 1958 Captain John M.D. Gray: November 1958-September 1960 Captain Andrew M. Lewis: September 1960-September 1961 Captain Edward W. Briggs: September 1961-September 1963 Captain Harry D. Ellis: September 1963-December 1965 Captain John F.R. Dreyer: December 1965-January 1969 Captain Lancelot R. Bell Davies: January 1969-July 1971 Captain David Hepworth: July 1971-November 1973 Captain John D.E. Fieldhouse: November 1973-November 1974 Captain Martin La T. Wemyss: November 1974-July 1976 Captain Derek R. Reffell: July 1976-May 1978 Captain Richard G.A. Fitch: May 1978-October 1980 Captain John M. Webster: October 1980-February 1982 Captain Michael H. Livesay: February 1982-February 1984 Captain John P.B. O’Riordan: February 1984-January 1986 Captain Roy T. Newman: January 1986-1988 Captain Michael A.C. Moore: 1988-1990 Captain Jeremy T. Sanders: 1990-1992 Captain John P. Clarke: 1992

Deputy Director of Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare (from 1920 until 1928 and from 1941; Surface Warfare from 196 until 196 ; Warfare from 196 ):

Captain H. J. Studholme Brownrigg: April 1920-January 1921 Captain Bernard W.M. Fairbairn: January 1921-August 1922 Captain Cecil V. Usborne: August 1922-March 1923 Captain Wilfred F. French: March 1923-May 1925 Captain H.J. Studholme Brownrigg: May 1925-March 1926 Captain Cyril G. Sedgwick: March 1926-July 1928 Captain Harold M. Burrough: July-December 1928 Captain Lennox A.K. Boswell: July 1941-1943 Captain Eric W. Longley-Cook: July 1941-March 1942 (Gunnery) Captain Henry A. King: March 1942-March 1944 (Gunnery) Captain Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: 1943-November 1944 (Anti- Aircraft) Captain Stephen H. Carlill: March 1944-March 1946 (Gunnery) Captain W. Kaye Edden: November 1944-1946 (Anti-Aircraft) Captain Robert A. Currie: March 1946-May 1948 (Gunnery) Captain Michael G. Goodenough: May 1948-1949 Captain George R. Villar: March 1963-1965 Captain David J. Bent: 1965-October 1966 Captain Duncan D. Knight: October 1966-June 1968 Captain Frank S. Hope: June 1968-May 1970 Captain Michael L. Stacey: May 1970-1973

Captain Antony L.L. Skinner: October 1973-December 1975

Director, Anti-Submarine Warfare (from 1916 until 1920 and from 1939 until 1943; Anti-U Boat Division from 1943 until 1945; Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Minewarfare from 1945 until 195 ; Undersurface Warfare from 195 until 1969):

Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff: December 1916-May 1917 Captain William W.Fisher: May 1917-January 1919 Captain Forster D. Arnold-Forster: January-April 1919 Captain Gilbert O. Stephenson: April 1919-April 1920 Captain Arthur G. Talbot: November 1939-September 1940 Captain George E. Creasy: September 1940-August 1942 Captain C. Philip Clarke: August 1942-September 1943 Captain Clarence D. Howard-Johnston: September 1943-? 1945 Captain Lord Ashbourne: September 1945-April 1947 Captain Robert S. Warne: April 1947-December 1948 Captain Wilfrid J.W. Woods: December 1948-November 1950 Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell: November 1950-January 1952 Captain Vernon D’A. Donaldson: January 1952-April 1954 Captain Edward C. Bayldon: April 1954-May 1957 Captain Bertram S. Pemberton: May 1957-September 1959 Captain Ian L.M. McGeoch: September 1959-July 1960 Captain George O. Symonds: July 1960-July 1962 Captain Edmund N. Poland: July 1962-May 1965 Captain Richard K.N. Emden: May 1965-February 1967 Captain Brian G.H.M. Baynham: February 1967-1969

Deputy Director of Anti-Submarine Warfare (from 1940; Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Minewarfare from 1945 until 195 ; Undersurface Warfare from 195 until 1969):

Captain C. Aubrey L. Mansergh: January 1940-November 1941 Captain C. Philip Clarke: November 1941-March 1942 Captain Neville A. Prichard: March 1942-July 1943 Captain Nicholas A. Copeman: December 1947-February 1950 Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell: February-November 1950 Captain John Grant: November 1950-September 1951 Captain Arthur R. Hezlet: September 1951-October 1952 Captain Robert L. Alexander: October 1952-October 1954 Captain Patrick J. Cowell: October 1954-October 1956 Captain C. Patrick Norman: October 1956-September 1958 Captain Ian L.M. McGeoch: September 1958-September 1959 Captain George O. Symonds: September 1959-July 1960 Captain Derrick G. Kent: July 1960-September 1962 Captain Iwan G. Raikes: September 1962-November 1964 Captain David Hepworth: November 1964-January 1967 Captain Stuart M.W. Farquharson-Roberts: January 1967-1969

Director of Torpedoes and Mining(from 1917)

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Edward S. Fitzherbert: April 1917-June 1918 Captain Frederick L.Field: June 1918-April 1920 Captain Albert P. Addison: April 1920-March 1922 Captain Leonard A.B.Donaldson: March 1922-May 1924 Captain Brien M. Money: May 1924-October 1926 Captain Arthur H. Walker: October 1926-December 1928 Captain Brian Egerton: December 1928-December 1931 Captain Henry R.Sawbridge: December 1931-April 1934 Captain William B. Mackenzie: April 1934-October 1935 Captain W.Frederic Wake-Walker: October 1935-January 1938 Captain John U.P.Fitzgerald: January 1938-February 1940 Captain Henry C. Phillips: February 1940-February 1942 Captain Gervase B. Middleton: February 1942-January 1943 Captain Anthony Fane de Salis: February 1943-November 1944 Captain William W. Davis: November 1944-September 1945

Deputy Director of Torpedoes and Mining (from 1919):

Captain Herbert N. Garnett: April 1919-January 1921 Captain Wion de M. Egerton: January 1921-November 1922 Captain Henry D. Bridges: November 1922-August 1924 Captain Patrick E. Parker: August 1924-September 1926 Captain Leonard F. Potter: September 1926-March 1929 Captain Charles O. Alexander: March 1929-September 1931 Captain John F.B. Carslake: September 1931-February 1936 Captain Gervase B. Middleton: February 1936-April 1938 Captain Norman V. Grace: May 1938-April 1940 Captain Gervase B. Middleton: April 1940-February 1942 Captain Edmund G. Abbott: December 1941-September 1944 Captain Anthony Fane de Salis: February 1942-February 1943 Captain Cecil R.L. Parry: September 1944-

Director, Naval Air Division(Naval Air Warfare ( from 1924 until 1985):

Captain Thomas F.P.Calvert: February 1924-September 1926 Captain Cecil P.Talbot: September 1926-December 1928 Captain Isham W. Gibson: December 1928-March 1930 Captain Charles E. Turle: March 1930-March 1932 Captain Henry C.Rawlings: March 1932-July 1934 Captain Charles F.Harris: July 1934-January 1937 Captain Cosmo M. Graham: January 1937-February 1939 Captain Charles A.A. Larcom: February-November 1939 Captain Clement Moody: November 1939-September 1941 Captain A. Robin M. Bridge: September 1941-February 1943 Captain John P. Wright: February 1943-January 1945 Captain Guy Willoughby: January 1945-December 1946 Captain Ernest H. Shattock: December 1946-April 1950 Captain Charles L.G. Evans: April 1950-June 1951 Captain Arthur S. Bolt: June 1951-October 1953 Captain E. Duncan G. Lewin: October 1953-December 1954 Captain Frank H. E. Hopkins: December 1954-September 1956 Captain Dennis R.F. Cambell: September 1956-October 1957 Captain Richard E.N. Kearney: October 1957-December 1958 Captain Oswald N. Bailey: December 1958-October 1960 Captain Desmond Vincent-Jones: October 1960-January 1964 Captain George C. Baldwin: January 1964-May 1966 Captain John D. Treacher: May 1966-August 1968 Captain John O. Roberts: August 1968-January 1971 Captain Cecil E. Price: January 1971-October 1972 Captain Wilbert A. Tofts: October 1972-September 1973 Captain Alan J. Leahy: September 1973-August 1975 Captain John H. F. C. de Winton: August 1975-February 1978 Captain Linley E. Middleton: February 1978-June 1980 Captain Charles R.V. Doe: June 1980-January 1982 Captain D. Benjamin Bathurst: January 1982-September 1983 Captain Roger C. Dimmock: September 1983-January 1985

Deputy Director, Naval Air Division/Naval Air Warfare:

Captain Cosmo M. Graham: July 1936-January 1937 Captain Reginald H. Portal: January 1937-February 1938 Captain Gerald M.B. Langley: February 1938-November 1939 Captain Robert M. Ellis: November 1939-February 1941 Captain Edmund W. Anstice: February 1941-? 1942 Captain Barrington L. Moore: ? 1942-February 1943 Captain Arthur D. Torlesse: February 1943-July 1944 Captain Philip C.L. Yorke: July 1944-February 1946 Captain Alexander N.C. Bingley: February 1946-August 1948 Captain Edward O.F. Price: April 1948-April 1950 Captain George H. Beale: August 1948-August 1950 Captain Richard M. Smeeton: April 1950-August 1952 Captain Brian E.W. Logan: August 1950-October 1952 Captain F. Michael A. Torrens-Spence: August 1952-July 1954 Captain Arthur J.T. Roe: October 1952-May 1955 Captain John A. Ievers: July 1954-April 1957 Captain Alan S. Webb: May 1955-December 1956 Captain Richard E.N. Kearney: December 1956-April 1957 Captain T.W. Harrington: April 1957-May 1958 Captain John W. Collett: September 1957-1960 Captain Donald C.E.F. Gibson: May 1958-1960 Captain B.C. Godfrey Place: April 1960-February 1962 Captain Douglas G. Parker: June 1960-1961 Captain Eric M. Brown: February 1962-May 1964 Captain Raymond D. Lygo: May 1964-June 1966 Captain Roy W. Halliday: June 1966-February 1968 Captain Joseph J. Phillips: February 1968-March 1970 Captain Alan J. Leahy: March 1970-August 1971 Captain Wilbert A. Tofts: August 1971-October 1972 Captain Brian J. Williams: October 1972-February 1974 Captain Francis D. Stanley: February 1974-February 1975 Captain Christopher J. Isacke: February 1975-February 1977 Captain Anthony Casdagli: February 1977-March 1979 Captain Jack Worth: March 1979-June 1981

Director of Minesweeping:

Captain Lionel G. Preston: May 1917-1919 Captain Harold E. Morse: October 1939-June 1941 Captain the Hon. Robert O. Fitzroy: June 1941-July 1943 Captain John H.F. Crombie: August 1943-April 1946 Captain Reginald F. Nichols: April 1946-1947

Deputy Director of Minesweeping (from 1940):

Captain Robert O. Fitzroy: April 1940-June 1941 Captain Markham H. Evelegh: June 1941-May 1943 Captain John C. Maclean: May 1943-

Director of the Torpedo Division (from 1920 until 1928):

Rear-Admiral Arthur K. Waistell: April 1920-April 1922 Captain Stanley L. Willis: April 1922-August 1924 Captain Norton A. Sulivan: August 1924-July 1926 Captain Cyril St.C. Cameron: July 1926-June 1928 Captain Henry G. Thursfield: June-December 1928

Deputy Director of Torpedo Division (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain Gilbert O. Stephenson: April 1920-March 1921 Captain Frederick E.E.G. Schreiber: March 1921-April 1922

Director of Naval Training (Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel(Training) from 1951 until 1959; Director-General of Training from 1960 until 1969; Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training from 1972 until 1994; Flag Officer, Training and Recruiting from 1994 until 2007):

Rear-Admiral John W. Durnford: December 1944-August 1947 Rear-Admiral Philip Ruck-Keene: August 1947-July 1949 Rear-Admiral John F. Stevens: July 1949-August 1950 Rear-Admiral Charles F.W. Norris: August 1950-July 1952 Rear-Admiral Maxwell Richmond: July 1952-July 1954 Rear-Admiral Benjamin Bryant: July 1954-February 1957 Rear-Admiral R. Thomas Sandars: February 1957-August 1958 Rear-Admiral Norman E. Denning: August 1958-May 1959 Vice-Admiral Sir Norman E. Dalton: May 1959-April 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir Nigel S. Henderson: April 1960-July 1962 Rear-Admiral John M.D. Gray: July 1962-January 1965 Rear-Admiral Thomas H. Maxwell: January 1965-January 1967 Rear-Admiral George W. Gay: January 1967-1969 Vice-Admiral David Williams: April 1972-February 1974 Rear-Admiral Raymond D. Lygo: February 1974-June 1975 Vice-Admiral A. Desmond Cassidi: June 1975-December 1977 Vice-Admiral Sir Sir John S.C. Lea: December 1977-January 1980 Rear-Admiral Peter G.M. Herbert: January 1980-November 1981 Rear-Admiral Nicholas J.S. Hunt: November 1981-November 1983 Rear-Admiral Robert W.K. Gerken: November 1983-May 1985 Rear-Admiral D. Benjamin Bathurst: May 1985-November 1986 Rear-Admiral Brian T. Brown: November 1986-July 1988 Rear-Admiral Neville Purvis: July 1988-December 1990 Rear-Admiral Michael H.G. Layard: December 1990-March 1992 Rear-Admiral Nicholas J. Wilkinson: March 1992-April 1994 Rear-Admiral John P. Clarke: April 1994-January 1996 Rear-Admiral John H.S. McAnally: January 1996-July 1998 Rear-Admiral John Chadwick: July 1998-July 2001 Rear-Admiral Peter R. Davies: July 2001-September 2004 Rear-Admiral K. John Borley: September 2004-2007

Director of Naval Training (from 1955):

Captain James J.S. Yorke: December 1955-January 1958 Captain Derick H.F. Hetherington: January 1958-May 1959 Captain Morice G. Greig: May 1959-November 1961 Captain F. Brian P. Brayne-Nicholls: November 1961-July 1963 Captain Robert E. Lloyd: July 1963-May 1965 Captain Arfor R.E. Bishop: May 1965-February 1969 Captain David G. Roome: February 1969-April 1970 Captain Stanley L. McArdle: April 1970-December 1971 Captain Dennis K.L. Learmount: December 1971-March 1973 Captain Sefton R. Sandford: March 1973-April 1974 Captain George A.F. Bower: April 1974-October 1975 Captain Bruce M. Tobey: October 1975-October 1977 Captain Richard A. Stephens: October 1977-June 1980 Captain Kenneth A. Snow: June 1980-July 1983 Captain Jeremy M. Porter: July 1983-1985 Captain Roger Trussell: 1985-1986 Captain Peter H. Wright: 1986-October 1988 Captain David A.J. Blackburn: October 1988-1990

Deputy Director of Training (until 1955):

Captain G.David A. Gregory: January 1952-January 1954 Captain George D. Pound: January 1954-1955

Director of Personal Services(Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel(Personal Services) from 1943 until 1959; Director-General of Naval Personnel and Officer Appointments from 1959 until 1966; Naval Personnel and Training from 1966 until 1972):

Rear-Admiral Arthur L. Snagge: March 1932-May 1934 Rear-Admiral James F. Somerville: May 1934-February 1936 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Layton: February 1936-May 1938 Rear-Admiral Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: May 1938-May 1940 Rear-Admiral W. E. Campbell Tait: May 1940-November 1941 Rear-Admiral Harold T. C. Walker: November 1941-December 1943 Rear-Admiral Harold R. G. Kinahan: December 1943-November 1945 Rear-Admiral Michael M. Denny: November 1945-August 1947 Rear-Admiral Sir William G. Agnew: August 1947-October 1949 Rear-Admiral Frederick R. Parham: October 1949-July 1951 Rear-Admiral Dennis M. Lees: July 1951-January 1953 Rear-Admiral Hilary W. Biggs: January 1953-January 1955 Rear-Admiral Laurence G. Durlacher: January 1955-April 1957 Rear-Admiral George A. F. Norfolk: April 1957-July 1959 Rear-Admiral Christopher H. Hutchinson: July 1959-January 1962 Rear-Admiral Richard A.J. Owen: January 1962-February 1964 Rear-Admiral Anthony Woodifield: February 1964-July 1966 Rear-Admiral George C. Crowley: July 1966-September 1968 Rear-Admiral John E.L. Martin: September 1968-June 1970 Vice-Admiral Denis B.H. Wildish: June 1970-August 1972 Rear-Admiral Alan G. Watson: August 1972-October 1974 Rear-Admiral Thomas B. Homan: October 1974-January 1978 Vice-Admiral Thomas H.E. Baird: January 1978-September 1979 Rear-Admiral John F. Cadell: September 1979-November 1981 Rear-Admiral Kenneth D. E. Wilcockson: November 1981-December 1983 Rear-Admiral William A. Higgins: December 1983-January 1986 Rear-Admiral Brian T. Brown: January-November 1986 Rear-Admiral Anthony M. Norman: November 1986-February 1989 Rear-Admiral Douglas M. Dow: February 1989-1992

Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel(Officer Appointments) (until 1958):

Rear-Admiral Robert S. Warne: August 1951-March 1953 Rear-Admiral Malcolm W. St.L. Searle: March 1953-August 1955 Rear-Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: August 1955-May 1957 Rear-Admiral Deric D.E. Holland-Martin: May-October 1957 Rear-Admiral Charles L.G. Evans: October 1957-May 1959

Deputy Director of Personal Services(Personnel )(from 1932):

Captain William J. Whitworth: March 1932-July 1933 Captain Thomas B. Drew: July 1933-September 1935 Captain Daniel de Pass: September 1935-September 1937 Captain Marcel H.A. Kelsey: September 1937-January 1940 Captain Daniel de Pass: January 1940-April 1941 Captain William K.D. Dowding: April 1941-April 1943 Captain Casper S.B. Swinley: April 1943-June 1944 Captain John S.M. Mackenzie-Grieve: September 1944-1946

Director of Naval Personnel (until 2017):

Commodore Peter C. Wykeham-Martin: 1998-2000

Commodore Peter D. Hudson: October 2004-August 2005 Commodore Alan R. Rymer: December 2005-October 2007 Commodore David J.R. Dickens: November 2007-June 2009 Commodore Michael P. Mansergh: June 2009-January 2012 Commodore S. Jonathan Woodcock: January-September 2012 Commodore Ian J.P. Bisson: September 2012-January 2013 Commodore Michael E. Farrage: January 2013-May 2017

Director of Naval Personnel Strategy/Assistant Chief of Staff(People Capability from 2017:

Commodore Charles P.R. Montgomery: 2003-February 2006 Commodore Ian F. Corder: 2006-November 2008 Commodore Simon P. Williams: November 2008-January 2011 Commodore Paul M. Bennett: January 2011-February 2013 Brigadier Robert A. Magowan: March 2013-January 2015 Commodore Michael A.W. Bath: January 2015-July 2018 Commodore Eleanor L. Ablett: August 2018-

Director of Naval Service Conditions :

Captain Casper S.B. Swinley: June 1944-April 1945 Captain Leonard H. Bell: April 1945-December 1946 Captain Ralph Heathcote: December 1946-February 1949 Captain John F. Whitfield: February-October 1949 Captain Cecil C. Hardy: October 1949-April 1952 Captain Humphrey G. Scott: April 1952-June 1953 Captain Harry P. Koelle: June 1953-March 1955 Captain Jack K. Highton: March 1955-1957 Captain G.C. Wilson: April 1957-September 1960 Captain Horace C. Lyddon: September 1960-June 1962 Captain Henry S. Spittle: June 1962-May 1965 Captain Peter G. Lachlan: May 1965-February 1967 Captain Alastair J. Petrie-Hay: February 1967-September 1969 Captain Robert N. Heard: September 1969-March 1972 Captain Arthur W. Hemsted: March 1972-May 1974 Captain Brian K. Shattock: May 1974-February 1976 Captain Richard J. Bates: February 1976-May 1978 Captain Graham R. Lowden: May 1978-February 1980 Captain Anthony R. Barnden: February 1980-August 1981 Captain Peter H. Coward: August 1981-1983 Captain Keith S. Pitt: 1983-September 1985 Captain Graham Meredith: September 1985-October 1988 Captain Fabian M. Malbon: October 1988-1990 Captain Andrew S. Ritchie: 1990-1993 Captain Derek J. Anthony: 1993-1996

Commodore Barry Bryant: 1997–July 2001 Commodore Peter J. Wilkinson: July 2001-2003 49

Director of Mobilization( from 1909 until 1932; Manning from until 1973):

Rear-Admiral Herbert G. King-Hall: October 1909-October 1911 Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff: October 1911-October 1914 Captain Hugh F.P. Sinclair: October 1914-June 1916 Rear-Admiral Michael Culme-Seymour: June 1916-September 1918 Rear-Admiral Edmond Hyde Parker: September 1918-December 1920 Rear-Admiral George H.Baird: January 1921-January 1923 Rear-Admiral John W. L.McClintock: January 1923-December 1924 Rear-Admiral Robert N.Bax: December 1924-December 1926 Rear-Admiral Rudolf M.Burmester: December 1926-December 1928 Rear-Admiral Edward A.Astley-Rushton: December 1928-December 1930 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Reginald A.R.Plunkett- Ernle-Erle-Drax: December 1930-March 1932 Captain Charles P. Clarke: March 1946-January 1948 Captain Hugh St. L. Nicolson: January-November 1948 Captain George E. Fardell: November 1948-March 1950 Captain Royston H. Wright: March 1950-December 1951 Captain Roger S. Wellby: December 1951-December 1953 Captain Nigel H.G. Austen: December 1953-December 1955 Captain Lionel W. L. Argles: December 1955-December 1957 Captain Godfrey B. Teale: December 1957-May 1960 Captain Peter J. Wyatt: May 1960-September 1961 Captain Hugo H. Bracken: September 1961-December 1963 Captain Henry R. Hewlett: December 1963-September 1965 Captain Ronald C.C. Greenlees: September 1965-January 1968 Captain Barrie H. Kent: January 1968-March 1970 Captain John L. Spanyol: March 1970-1973

Director of Naval Recruiting :

Captain Harold Drew: October 1946-July 1948 Captain Godfrey N. Brewer: October 1948-December 1950 Captain Thomas L. Bratt: December 1950-June 1952 Captain George C. Blundell: June 1952-December 1956 Captain Douglas H.R. Bromley: December 1956-August 1958 Captain George O. Roberts: August 1958-August 1960 Captain Rupert C.P. Wainwright: August 1960-October 1962 Captain George H. Evans: October 1962-August 1964 Captain Alan R. Aldous: August 1964-January 1966 Captain C. Courtenay Anderson: January 1966-January 1969 Captain Michael W. Sylvester: January 1969-December 1971 Captain Maurice J. Button: December 1971-November 1974 Captain Peter B. Hogg: November 1974-October 1976 Captain W. Duncan Lang: October 1976-April 1978 Captain John K. Robertson: April 1978-October 1979 Captain Michael A. Vallis: October 1979-1982

Director of Naval Ordnance (until 1958):

Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper Key: September 1866-July 1869 Captain Arthur W.A. Hood: July 1869-May 1874 Rear-Admiral Henry Boys: May 1874-May 1878 Rear-Admiral Richard Vesey Hamilton: June 1878-March 1880 Rear-Admiral Frederick A. Herbert: April 1880-April 1883 Rear-Admiral John O. Hopkins: April 1883-November 1886 Rear-Admiral John A. Fisher: November 1886-May 1891 Rear-Admiral Compton E. Domvile: May 1891-March 1894 Captain Henry C. Kane: March 1894-August 1897 Rear-Admiral Edmund Jeffreys: August 1897-January 1901 Captain William H. May: January-April 1901 Rear-Admiral Angus Macleod: April 1901-January 1904 Rear-Admiral Henry D. Barry: January 1904-February 1905 Rear-Admiral John R. Jellicoe: February 1905-August 1907 Captain Reginald H.S. Bacon: August 1907-December 1909 Captain Archibald G.H.W. Moore: December 1909-June 1912 Captain Frederick C.T.Tudor: June 1912-August 1914 Captain Morgan Singer: August 1914-March 1917 Captain Frederic C.Dreyer: March 1917-June 1918 Captain Henry R. Crooke: June 1918-September 1920 Captain Roger R.C.Backhouse: September 1920-December 1922 Captain Joseph C.W.Henley: December 1922-May 1925 Captain Charles M. Forbes: July 1925-July 1928 Captain Julian F.C.Patterson: July 1928-April 1931 Captain F. Thomas B. Tower: April 1931-July 1933 Captain Bruce A. Fraser: July 1933-March 1936 Captain Charles E. B. Simeon: March 1936-May 1939 Captain John C. Leach: May 1939-January 1941 Captain William R. Slayter: January-August 1941 Captain Oliver Bevir: August 1941-March 1944 Captain Charles H. L. Woodhouse: March 1944-February 1946 Captain Dennis M. Lees: February 1946-December 1948 Captain Henry A. King: December 1948-June 1951 Captain William J. Yendell: June 1951-March 1954 Captain John G. Hamilton: March 1954-March 1956 Captain Richard E. Washbourn: March 1956-May 1958 Rear-Admiral Gilbert C. de Jersey: May-July 1958

Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance (from 1919):

Captain Cecil V. Usborne: January 1919-May 1921 Captain Roger R.C. Backhouse: August-September 1920 Captain G.T. Carlisle P. Swabey: May 1921-October 1923 Captain George R.B. Blount: October 1923-August 1925 Captain Charles A. Scott: August 1925-April 1928 Captain A. Ramsay Dewar: April 1928-September 1929 Captain Frank Elliott: September 1929-March 1932 Captain A. Francis Pridham: March 1932-April 1933 Captain Eric R. Bent: April 1933-October 1934 Captain Gerard W.T. Robertson: October 1934-March 1936 Captain Harold R.G. Kinahan: March 1936-June 1937 Captain Francis W.H. Jeans: June 1937-July 1938 Captain Michael M. Denny: July 1938-March 1940 Captain William R. Slayter: March 1940-January 1941 Captain Frederick R. Parham: January 1941-August 1942 Captain Patrick V. McLaughlin: August 1942-March 1943 Captain Robert F. Elkins: March 1943-November 1944 Captain Kenneth L. Harkness: April 1943-February 1945 Captain Henry N.S. Brown: February 1945-October 1947 Captain Alan F. Campbell: September 1946-September 1948 Captain Thomas V. Briggs: October 1947-1949 Captain William J. Lamb: September 1948-1950 Captain Desmond P. Dreyer: July 1949-September 1952 Captain Richard E. Washbourn: September 1950-1953 Captain F.W.R. Larken: September 1952-November 1955 Captain Thomas W. Best: November 1955-

Director of Naval Equipment (until 1939; Vice-Controller from 1939; and Deputy/Vice- Controller of the Navy from 1946 until 1957):

Rear-Admiral Arthur W.Waymouth: September 1912-December 1914 Rear-Admiral Clement Greatorex: December 1914-October 1917 Rear-Admiral Edward M. Phillpotts: October 1917-May 1920 Rear-Admiral Edward F. Bruen: May 1920-May 1922 Rear-Admiral Douglas L.Dent: May 1922-May 1924 Rear-Admiral Arthur A.M.Duff: May 1924-May 1926 Rear-Admiral Henry W.Parker: May 1926-May 1928 Rear-Admiral Joseph C.W.Henley: May 1928-February 1930 Rear-Admiral Harold O. Reinold: February 1930-January 1931 Rear-Admiral Percy L. H. Noble: January 1931-November 1932 Rear-Admiral Cecil P. Talbot: November 1932-December 1934 Rear-Admiral St.Aubyn B.Wake: December 1934-December 1936 Vice-Admiral F. Thomas B. Tower: December 1936-July 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry C. Phillips: July 1944-June 1947 Rear-Admiral Matthew S. Slattery: May 1945-January 1948 (Vice-Controller Air)) Rear-Admiral Geoffrey A.B. Hawkins: June 1947-October 1949 Rear-Admiral Lachlan D. Mackintosh: January 1948-February 1950 (Vice- Controller(Air)) Rear-Admiral C.Aubrey L. Mansergh: October 1949-June 1950 Rear-Admiral E.M. Conolly Abel Smith: February 1950-1953 (Vice-Controller(Air)) Rear-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett: June 1950-June 1952 Rear-Admiral Gerald V. Gladstone: June 1952-October 1953 Rear-Admiral Guy B. Sayer: October 1953-April 1956 Rear-Admiral Nicholas A. Copeman: April 1956-April 1957 Captain Maurice L. Hardie: April 1957-February 1959 Captain John P. Scatchard: February 1959-September 1960 Captain George E. Hunt: September 1960-January 1963 Captain Geoffrey J. Kirkby: January 1963-January 1965 Captain J. Anthony R. Troup: January-July 1965 Captain J. Ernle Pope: July 1965-January 1967 Captain Thomas W. Stocker: January 1967-August 1968 Captain Roger E.S. Wykes-Sneyd: August 1968-May 1970 Captain Darby E.P. George: May 1970-August 1971 Captain Ian S.S. Mackay: August 1971-April 1974 Captain John F. Kidd: July 1974-August 1976 Captain D. John Mackenzie: August 1976-August 1978 54

Commodore John A.B. Thomas: August 1978-March 1982 Commodore James W.F. Briggs: March 1982-April 1984 Captain Colin A.F. Buchanan: April 1984-1985

Deputy Controller of the Navy:

Rear-Admiral James W.S. Dorling: August 1939-April 1941 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E.B.Simeon: April 1941-March 1946 Rear-Admiral Alexander C.G. Madden: March 1946-June 1948 Rear-Admiral C. Aubrey L. Mansergh: June 1948-October 1949 Rear-Admiral John W. Cuthbert: February 1951-June 1953 Rear-Admiral Robin L.F. Durnford-Slater: June 1953-February 1956 Rear-Admiral Peter Dawnay: February 1956-January 1958 Rear-Admiral Thomas V. Briggs: January-? 1958

Deputy Director of Naval Equipment :

Captain Hugh A.C. Dick: February 1940-December 1943 Captain Hon. Oswald W. Cornwallis: December 1943-January 1945 Captain Gerald O.C. Davies: January 1945-August 1946 Captain William P. McCarthy: August 1946-August 1948 Captain S. Brian De Courcy-Ireland: August 1948-March 1951 Captain Charles W. Greening: March 1951-August 1952 Captain Howard F. Bone: August 1952-July 1954 Captain Richard L.S. Gaisford: July 1954-August 1955 Captain William W. Stewart-Fitzroy: December 1954-1956 Captain Richard L.H. Marsh: August 1955-1957 Captain Thomas N. Catlow: 1958-July 1959 Captain Ian S. McIntosh: July 1959-July 1961 Captain Frederick W. Hayden: July 1961-July 1963 Captain J. Anthony R. Troup: July 1963-January 1965 Captain B.F.P. (Peter) Samborne: January 1965-April 1967 Captain Thomas H.E. Baird: April 1967-June 1969 Captain Peter G.M. Herbert: June 1969-June 1970 Captain Robin J.P. Heath: June 1970-1973

Captain Kenneth H. Mills: December 1974-December 1977 Captain Colin Grant: December 1977-March 1980 Captain Alan J.B. Laybourne: March 1980-April 1982 55

Director of Signals :

Captain Rudolf M. Burmester: November 1919-April 1920 Captain John K. im Thurn: April 1920-July 1921 Captain Henry K.Kitson: July 1921-February 1923 Captain Raymond Fitzmaurice: February 1923-February 1925 Captain James F.Somerville: February 1925-February 1927 Captain Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis: February 1927-March 1930 Captain James W.S.Dorling: March 1930-April 1932 Captain Arthur J. L. Murray: April 1932-September 1934 Captain Guy W.Hallifax: September 1934-October 1935 Captain W. Tofield Makeig-Jones: October 1935-September 1937 Captain Philip F. Glover: September 1937-March 1942 Rear-Admiral Cedric S. Holland: March 1942-November 1943 Rear-Admiral L. Vaughan Morgan: November 1943-October 1945 Captain John R.S. Haines: October 1945-April 1947 Captain Gilbert R. Waymouth: April 1947-September 1949 Captain Ralph G. Swallow: September 1949-December 1951 Captain Roy S. Foster-Brown: December 1951-February 1954 Captain Alwyn D. Lenox-Conyngham: February 1954-November 1955 Captain Robert F. T. Stannard: November 1955-November 1957 Captain Christopher A. James: November 1957-November 1959 Captain Edward T.L. Dunsterville: November 1959-March 1960 Captain W. John Parker: March 1960-November 1961 Captain John R.G. Trechman: November 1961-January 1965 Captain North E.F. Dalrymple-Hamilton: January 1965-October 1966 Captain Christopher B.H. Wake-Walker: October 1966-December 1968 Captain J. Ernle Pope: December 1968-July 1969 Captain Douglas A. Poynter: July 1969-February 1972 Captain Harry R. Keate: February 1972-January 1974 Captain Richard D. Franklin: January 1974-August 1975 Captain William T.T. Pakenham: August 1975-October 1977 Captain Michael J.L. Freeman: September 1977-February 1979 Captain Hugh M. Balfour: February 1979-July 1981 Captain Anthony R.Wood: July 1981-July 1983 Captain Nigel I.C. Kettlewell: July 1983-1986

Captain Jeremy T. Sanders: April 1989-1990 Captain B. Brian Perowne: 1990-1992

Deputy Director of Signals :

Captain Patrick W.B. Brooking: August 1939-July 1941 Captain Francis J. Wylie: July 1941-March 1943 Captain Charles L. Firth: July 1941-May 1943 Captain Sir Philip W. Bowyer-Smith, Bt.: November 1941-October 1943 Captain J.Peter L. Reid: March 1943-December 1944 Captain Herbert F.H. Layman: February 1944-1945 Captain Charles L. Firth: December 1944-December 1945 Captain Laurence G. Durlacher: December 1945-March 1948 Captain Peter Dawnay: March 1948-March 1950 Captain Earl Cairns: March 1950-March 1952 Captain Edward T.L. Dunsterville: March 1952-March 1954 Captain Charles P. Mills: March 1954-April 1956 Captain Christopher A. James: April 1956-November 1957 Captain Robert R.B. Mackenzie: November 1957-December 1959 Captain Ian F. Sommerville: December 1959-February 1961 Captain the Hon. David P. Seely: February 1961-August 1963 Captain Douglas A. Poynter: August 1963-August 1965 Captain Cameron Rusby: August 1965-November 1967 Captain Stephen F. Berthon: November 1967-February 1969 Captain Peter C. Prince: February 1969-December 1971 Captain John B.D. Miller: December 1971-

Director of Navigation (until 1968):

Captain Philip Nelson-Ward: December 1912-August 1916 Captain John A. Webster: August 1916-August 1919 Captain John E.T.Harper: August 1919-November 1921 Captain Frederick P.Loder Symonds: November 1921-November 1923 Captain the Hon.Arthur C.Strutt: November 1923-November 1925 Captain Alfred H.Norman: November 1925-November 1927 Captain Oswald H. Dawson: November 1927-January 1930 Captain Kenelm E. L. Creighton: January 1930-December 1931 Captain James D. Campbell: December 1931-September 1933 Captain John W.Clayton: September 1933-September 1935 Captain William G. Benn: September 1935-June 1938 Captain Charles E. Morgan: June 1938-October 1940 Captain Ronald G. Bowes-Lyon: October 1940-June 1942 Rear-Admiral William G. Benn: June 1942-December 1945 Captain Richard W. Ravenhill: December 1945-December 1947 Captain Francis B. Lloyd: December 1947-December 1949 Captain Wilfred G. Brittain: December 1949-December 1951 Captain Earle H. Thomas: December 1951-January 1954 Captain Maurice E. Butler-Bowden: January 1954-December 1956 Captain John E. Jowitt: December 1956-October 1958 Captain Donald McEwen: October 1958-January 1961 Captain Colin D. Madden: January 1961-March 1962 Captain John W.H. Bennett: March 1962-June 1964 Captain David N. Forbes: June 1964-December 1965 Captain John S. Le Blanc Smith: December 1965-1968

Deputy Director of Navigation (until 1968):

Captain Charles P. Coke: November 1951-June 1953 Captain Peter J. Norton: June 1953-June 1955 Captain Graham J.A. Lumsden: June 1955-June 1957 Captain Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: June 1957-June 1959 Captain Robert H. Graham: June 1959-June 1961 Captain Martin S. Ollivant: June 1961-June 1965 Captain John K. Stevens: June 1965-July 1967 Captain David T. Smith: July 1967-1968

Director of Naval Public Relations/Corporate Communications (Navy) (until 2004):

Captain Kenneth J. Douglas-Morris: March 1970-March 1971 Captain Raymond D. Lygo: March 1971-January 1972 Captain Kenneth A. Crawley: January 1972-September 1974 Captain Keith A. Leppard: September 1974-May 1977 Captain Derek C. Blacker: May 1977-December 1979 Captain Frederick A.Collins: December 1979-April 1982 Captain Ian B. Sutherland: April 1982-1984 Captain Guy F. Liardet: 1984-1986 Captain Anthony G.M.A. Provest: 1986-1989

Captain Christopher J. Esplin-Jones: June 1992-November 1994 Captain C.R. Beagley: November 1994-1996 Commodore Barry Leighton: August 1996-1998 Commodore Hugh A.H.G. Edleston: 1998-December 2000 Commodore Richard D. Leaman: December 2000-December 2002 Commodore Anthony J. Rix: January-November 2003 Commodore Allan A. S. Adair: November 2003-2004

Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord :

Captain Charles E. Madden: December 1905-August 1907 Captain Archibald G.H.W. Moore: August 1907-December 1908 Captain Henry F. Oliver: December 1908-January 1912 Captain Charles M. de Bartolome: January 1912-August 1914 Captain T. Percy H. Beamish: August-October 1914 Captain Thomas E. Crease: October 1914-May 1915 Captain A. Dudley P.R. Pound: January-October 1915 Captain Allan F. Everett: July 1915-December 1916 Captain Edward M. Phillpotts: December 1916-October 1917 Captain John P.R. Marriott: April 1918-November 1919 Captain Roger M. Bellairs: November 1919-October 1925 Captain Sidney R. Bailey: October 1925-November 1927 Captain William M. James: November 1927-March 1929 Captain Herbert Fitzherbert: March 1929-? 1930 Captain Guy Grantham: June 1939-May 1940 Captain Cecil C.A.Allen: May 1940-May 1941 Captain John W.A. Waller: May 1941-March 1942 Captain Francis H.W. Goolden: March 1942-February 1943 Captain Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith: February 1943-January 1945 Captain George K. Collett: January 1945-February 1946 Captain Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: February 1946-July 1947 Captain Walter A. Adair: July 1947-September 1948 Captain Christopher T. Jellicoe: September 1948-September 1950 Captain Peter W. Gretton: September 1950-May 1952 Captain Charles W. Malins: May 1952-April 1954 Captain F. Brian P. Brayne-Nicholls: April 1954-December 1955 Captain Peter N. Howes: December 1955-December 1957 Captain L. Derek Empson: December 1957-August 1959 Captain J. Anthony R. Troup: August 1959-August 1961 Captain David Williams: August 1961-January 1964 Captain David G. Roome: January 1964-March 1966 Captain Michael R. Collins: March 1966-April 1968 Captain Martin La T. Wemyss: April 1968-1970 Captain John F. Cadell: 1970-August 1972 Captain David G. Armytage: August 1972-July 1974 Captain Richard G.A. Fitch: July 1974-May 1976 Captain D. Benjamin Bathurst: May 1976-June 1978 Captain John F. Coward: June 1978-June 1980 60

Captain George M. Tullis: June 1980-January 1983 Captain John F.S. Trinder: January 1983-September 1984 Captain Thomas M. Le Marchand: September 1984-August 1986 Captain Peter M. Franklyn: August 1986-April 1988 Captain William C. McKnight: April-December 1988 Captain R. John Lippiett: December 1988-1990

Captain Michael G. Wood: 1991-1992

Captain A. James G. Miller: 199 -

Captain Ian F. Corder: 1999-2001

Captain James A. Morse: 2002-November 2004 Captain Jeremy J.F. Blunden: November 2004-November 2006

Commander William N. Entwisle: 200 -200

Captain James D. Morley: 2009-2010

Commander Iain S. Lower: 201 -201 Commander David J.D. Dominy: September 2012-September 2014

Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord(Director of Seamen Officer Appointments from 1957 until ):

Captain Robert F. Scott: March-December 1909 Captain William O. Boothby: December 1909-March 1911 Captain Cecil F. Lambert: March 1911-July 1912 Captain Edward M. Phillpotts: July 1912-March 1915 Captain the Hon. Hubert G. Brand: March 1915-June 1916 Captain Henry T. Buller: June 1916-April 1918 Captain the Hon. Herbert Meade: April 1918-March 1919 Captain Alexander Lowndes: March 1919-September 1920 Captain Arthur J. Davies: September 1920-August 1922 Captain Theodore J.Hallett: August 1922-August 1924 Captain Arthur F. E.Bedford: August 1924-July 1926 Captain Robin C. Dalglish: July 1926-June 1928 Captain F.Burges Watson: June 1928-July 1930 Captain John C.Tovey: July 1930-March 1932 Captain G.Frederick B.Edward-Collins: March 1932-December 1934 Captain H. Evelyn C.Blagrove: December 1934-April 1937 Captain John G.Crace: April 1937-August 1939 Captain Claud B. Barry: August 1939-October 1940 Captain Leslie H.Ashmore: October 1940-April 1942 Captain Alexander C.G.Madden: April 1942-October 1944 Captain the Hon. Guy H.E.Russell: October 1944-October 1945 Captain H. Geoffrey Norman: October 1945-June 1947 Captain St.John A. Micklethwait: June 1947-December 1949 Captain Ballin I. Robertshaw: December 1949-December 1951 Captain Sir St.John R.J. Tyrwhitt, Bt.: December 1951-June 1953 Captain Michael S. Townsend: June 1953-December 1955 Captain Edmund N.V. Currey: December 1955-April 1958 Captain George I.M. Balfour: April 1958-November 1959 Captain John H. Walwyn: November 1959-June 1962 Captain Dudley L. Davenport: June 1962-June 1964 Captain Ian W. Jamieson: June 1964-July 1966 Captain Martin N. Lucey: July 1966-September 1968 Captain Ronald W. Forrest: September 1968-June 1970 Captain Peter W. Buchanan: June 1970-July 1972 Captain Ian R. Bowden: July 1972-August 1974 Captain Paul W. Greening: August 1974-July 1976 Captain David W. Brown: July 1976-June 1978 62

Captain Anthony M.G. Pearson: June 1978-January 1980 Captain W. Richard S. Thomas: January 1980-February 1983 Captain Norman R.D. King; February 1983-July 1984 Captain Michael C. Cole: July 1984-October 1986 Captain John F.S. Trinder: October 1986-March 1989 Captain Peter G.J. Murison: March 1989-

Captain Peter M. Franklyn: 1993-1994

Naval Assistant to the Naval Secretary :

Captain Peter E. Fanshawe: February 1963-August 1966 Captain Evelyn F. Hamilton-Meikle: August 1966-September 1970 Captain David V. Morgan: September 1970-February 1975 Captain James W. M. Pertwee: February 1975-February 1979 Captain Michael C.M. Mansergh: February 1979-February 1982 Captain Charles E.T. Baker: February 1982-January 1985 Captain Gordon F. Walwyn: January 1985-1988 Captain John Hall: 1988-

Commodore Malcolm B. Avery: January 2006 –January 2008 Commodore Paul H. Robinson: January 2008–July 2009 Commodore David J. R. Dickens: July 2009-September 2011 Commodore M. Rupert B. Wallace: September 2011-October 2013 Commodore Ross Albon: October 2013-April 2018 Commodore Richard A. Murrison: April 2018-

Commodore, Contract-Built Ships :

Commodore Richard L.H. Marsh: May 1957-October 1962 Commodore Roland C. Watkin: October 1962-April 1966 Commodore Thomas N. Catlow: April 1966-October 1969 Commodore Denis Jermain: October 1969-April 1973 Commodore George A. de G. Kitchin: April 1973-April 1976 Commodore Harry R. Keate: April 1976-1978

Commodore, Naval Drafting :

Commodore George B. Rowe: April 1957-February 1958 Commodore Ralph W.F. Northcott: February 1958-November 1960 Commodore Raymond Hart: November 1960-December 1962 Commodore Rupert C.T. Wainwright: December 1962-September 1964 Commodore Denis B.H. Wildish: September 1964-June 1966 Commodore James P.K.Harkness: June 1966-October 1969 Commodore Peter K.C. Harris: October 1969-December 1971 Commodore Paul W. Greening: December 1971-February 1974 Commodore Geoffrey C. Lloyd: February 1974-December 1975 Captain John W.T. Walters: December 1975-March 1978 Captain Peter Hames: March 1978-March 1980 Captain Christopher J. Phillips: March 1980-March 1982 Captain Neil A.D. Grant: March 1982-September 1984 Captain J. Patrick W. Middleton: September 1984-March 1987 Captain Roger H.C. Hepinstall: March 1987-1988

Chief, Strategic Systems Executive (from 1980):

Rear-Admiral John S. Grove: 1980-1985 Rear-Admiral John S. Cooper: 1985-1988 Rear-Admiral Ian H. Pirnie: 1988-1992 Rear-Admiral Richard O. Irwin: 1992-1995 Rear-Admiral Paul A.M. Thomas: 1995-1998 Geoffrey N. Beaven: 1998- Commodore Ian F. Corder: November 2004-April 2006 Commodore David J. Jarvis: April 2006-November 2008 Rear-Admiral Stephen R. Lloyd: November 2008-July 2012 Rear-Admiral Mark A. Beverstock: July 2012-November 2014 Rear-Admiral Keith A. Beckett: November 2014-

(b) HOME COMMANDS INDEX:

Air (Home)/ Naval Air Command, Flag Officer: page 86 Chief of Staff/Commodore, Naval Aviation: page 87 Air Station, R.N., Brawdy (“Goldcrest”), Captain of: page 127 Air Station, R.N., Culdrose (“Seahawk”), Captain of: page 126 Air Station, R.N., Lossiemouth (“Fulmar”), Captain of: page 127 Air Station, R.N., Portland (“Osprey”)/Anti-Submarine Establishment, Captain of: page 123 Air Station, R.N., Yeovilton (“Heron”), Captain of: page 124 Aircraft Carriers/Carriers and Amphibious Ships, Flag Officer: page 84 Chief Staff Officer: page 85 Carrier Strike, Capability Director: page 85 Chatham, Naval Depot, Captain/R.N. Barracks, Commodore: page 119 Chatham, H.M. Dockyard, Admiral Superintendent/Flag Officer, Medway: page 108 Captain of the Dockyard: page 110 Chatham Dockyard Reserve/Medway Steam Reserve, Captain: page 111 Clyde Submarine Base, Commodore: page 122 Coast Guard Districts, Captains- Buncrana: page 100 Eastern: page 97 Humber: page 98 Irish Sea: page 99 Kingstown: page 99 Nore: page 99 North of Ireland: page 98 North of Scotland: page 98 Plymouth: page 99 Portsmouth: page 99 Queenstown: page 99 Rosyth: page 98 Scottish: page 96 South of Ireland: page 98 Southern: page 97 Western: page 97 Devonport, Naval Depot, Captain/R.N. Barracks, Commodore: page 119 Devonport, Fleet Reserve, Captain: page 96

Devonport, H.M. Dockyard, Admiral Superintendent: page 105 Captain of the Dockyard: page 106 Devonport Dockyard /Steam Reserve, Captain: page 107 Home Command, Naval, C.-in-C. (see C.-in-C., Portsmouth and Second Sea Lord-page 7) Ireland, Coast of, C.-in-C.: page 82 Chief of Staff: page 83 Medway, Flag Officer (see Chatham Dockyard) Medway, Fleet Reserve, Captain: page 96 Nore, The, C.-in-C.: page 75 Flag Captain/Chief of Staff: page 77 Northern Ireland, Senior Naval Officer: page 83 Orkneys and Shetlands, C.in-C.: page 82 Pembroke Dockyard, Captain of: page 116 Plymouth (Devonport), C.-in-C./Flag Officer: page 71 Flag Captain/Chief of Staff: page 73 Plymouth, Naval Base, Commander (see Devonport Naval Depot) Portland, Dockyard, Captain of/Senior Naval Officer, Portland: page 115 Portsmouth, C.-in-C.: page 66 Flag Captain/Chief of Staff: page 68 Portsmouth, Flag Officer (see H.M. Dockyard) Portsmouth, Naval Depot, Captain/R.N. Barracks, Commodore/ Naval Base, Commander: page 117 Portsmouth Dockyard Reserve/Steam Reserve, Captain: page 104 Portsmouth, Fleet Reserve, Captain: page 95 Portsmouth, H.M. Dockyard, Admiral Superintendant: page 101 Captain of the Dockyard: page 103 Reserves, Admiral Commanding: page 92 Assistant/Chief Staff Officer: page 94 Rosyth, C.-in-C. (see Scotland and Northern Ireland) Rosyth, H.M. Dockyard, Admiral Superintendent/Port Admiral: page 113 Captain of the Dockyard: page 114 Royal Yachts, Flag Officer: page 100 Scotland, Coast of, C.-in-C. (see Rosyth) Scotland and Northern Ireland, Flag Officer: page 79 Chief of Staff/Chief Staff Officer: page 81 Sheerness Dockyard, Captain of: page 112 Submarines, Flag Officer: page 88 Chief of Staff/Chief Staff Officer: page 90 Western Approaches, C.-in-C. (see Coast of Ireland) 66

Commander-in-Chief. Portsmouth(Naval Home Command from 1969 until 2012; and Second Sea Lord from 1994):

Admiral Sir Henry W. Bruce: March 1860-March 1863 Admiral Sir Michael Seymour: March 1863-March 1866 Admiral Sir Thomas S. Pasley, Bt.: March 1866-February 1869 Admiral Sir James Hope: February 1869-March 1872 Admiral Sir George R. Mundy: March 1872-March 1875 Admiral Sir George A. Elliot: March 1875-March 1878 Admiral Edward G. Fanshawe: March 1878-November 1879 Admiral Alfred P. Ryder: November 1879-November 1882 Admiral Sir Geoffrey T.Phipps Hornby: November 1882-November 1885 Admiral Sir George O.Willes: November 1885-June 1888 Admiral Sir John E. Commerell: June 1888-June 1891 Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam: June 1891-June 1894 Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon: June 1894-August 1897 Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: August 1897-October 1900 Admiral Sir Charles F. Hotham: October 1900-August 1903 Admiral Sir John A. Fisher: August 1903-March 1904 Admiral Sir Archibald L. Douglas: March 1904-March 1907 Admiral Sir Day H.Bosanquet: March 1907-March 1908 Admiral Sir Arthur D.Fanshawe: March 1908-April 1910 Admiral the Hon. Sir Assheton G.Curzon-Howe: April 1910-March 1911 Admiral Sir Arthur W. Moore: March 1911-July 1912 Admiral of the Fleet the Hon. Sir Hedworth Meaux: July 1912-March 1916 Admiral the Hon. Sir Stanley C. J. Colville: March 1916-March 1919 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: March 1919-April 1920 Admiral the Hon. Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: April 1920-April 1923 Admiral Sir Sydney R. Fremantle: April 1923-April 1926 Admiral Sir Osmond de B. Brock: April 1926-April 1929 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger J. B. Keyes, Bt.: April 1929-May 1931 Admiral Sir Arthur K. Waistell: June 1931-January 1934 Admiral Sir John D. Kelly: January 1934-July 1936 Admiral Sir William W. Fisher: July 1936-June 1937 Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork and Orrery: July 1937-June 1939 Admiral Sir William M. James: June 1939-October 1942 Admiral Sir Charles J. C. Little: October 1942-February 1945 Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton: March 1945-May 1947 Admiral Lord Fraser of North Cape: May 1947-July 1948 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon U. Willis: July 1948-September 1950 67

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur J. Power: September 1950-September 1952 Admiral Sir John H. Edelsten: September 1952-September 1954 Admiral of the Fleet Sir George E. Creasy: September 1954-July 1957 Admiral Sir Guy Grantham: July 1957-March 1959 Admiral Sir Manley L. Power: March 1959-October 1961 Admiral Sir Alexander N. C. Bingley: October 1961-February 1963 Admiral Sir Wilfrid J.W. Woods: February 1963-August 1965 Admiral Sir Varyl C. Begg: August 1965-March 1966 Admiral Sir Frank H.E. Hopkins: March 1966-November 1967 Admiral Sir John B. Frewen: November 1967-March 1970 Admiral Sir Horace R. Law: March 1970-May 1972 Admiral Sir Andrew M. Lewis: May 1972-July 1974 Admiral Sir L. Derek Empson: July 1974-November 1975 Admiral Sir Terence T. Lewin: November 1975-March 1977 Admiral Sir David Williams: March 1977-March 1979 Admiral Sir Richard P. Clayton: March 1979-July 1981 Admiral Sir James H.F. Eberle: July 1981-December 1982 Admiral Sir A. Desmond Cassidi: December 1982-October 1985 Admiral Sir Peter M. Stanford: October 1985-October 1987 Admiral Sir John F. Woodward: October 1987-October 1989 Admiral Sir J. Jeremy Black: October 1989-March 1991 Admiral Sir John B. Kerr: March 1991-March 1994 Admiral Sir Michael H.G. Layard: March 1994-March 1995 (see Second Sea Lord )

Flag Captain/Chief of Staff, /Naval Home Command :

Captain Robert Coote: March 1860-March 1863 Captain Francis Scott: March 1863-March 1866 Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton: March 1866-August 1867 Captain F. Beauchamp P. Seymour: August 1867-December 1868 Captain George Le G. Bowyear: December 1868-March 1869 Captain Richard W. Courtenay: March-June 1869 Captain George Hancock: June 1869-March 1872 Captain the Hon. Henry C. Glyn: March 1872-March 1875 Captain Francis W. Sullivan: March 1875-October 1876 Captain the Hon. Walter C. Carpenter: October 1876-July 1879 Captain Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: July 1879-May 1882 Captain Charles J. Rowley: May 1882-October 1884 Captain Philip H. Colomb: October 1884-May 1886 Captain Edward H.Seymour: May 1886-December 1887 Captain Robert Woodward: December 1887-January 1891 Captain Henry St. L. Bury Palliser: January-December 1891 Captain Henry C. Kane: December 1891-February 1894 Captain Wollaston C. Karslake: February 1894-May 1897 Captain William H. May: May-August 1897 Captain Francis C.B. Bridgeman: August 1897-October 1900 Captain Edward P. Jones: October 1900-May 1903 Captain Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot: May 1903-March 1905 Captain Spencer H.M. Login: March-May 1905 Captain Richard F. Phillimore: May 1905-February 1907 Captain Archibald G.H.W. Moore: February-August 1907 Captain William H. Baker-Baker: September 1907-March 1908 Captain Edmond Hyde Parker: March 1908-April 1910 Captain John de M. Hutchison: May 1910-March 1911 Captain Edwyn S.Alexander-Sinclair: March 1911-August 1913 Captain Richard G.A.W. Stapleton-Cotton: September 1913-August 1916 Captain Francis A. Marten: October 1916-August 1917 Captain Thomas L. Goldie: August-October 1917 Captain Francis H. Mitchell: October 1917-October 1918 Captain Anselan J.B. Stirling: November 1918-April 1919 Captain Colin Mackenzie: April 1919-August 1920 Captain Fawcet Wray: September-October 1920 Captain Rudolf M. Burmester: April 1920-April 1922 Captain Colin K. Maclean: June 1922-August 1924 69

Captain Gilbert O.Stephenson: September 1924-July 1926 Captain Francis G.G.Chilton: August 1926-April 1928 Captain Max K. Horton: April 1928-April 1930 Captain the Hon. E. Rupert Drummond: April 1930-April 1932 Captain William P.Mark-Wardlaw: April 1932-January 1934 Rear-Admiral Lachlan D. MacKinnon: January 1934-July 1936 Rear-Admiral Stephen St. L. Moore: July 1936-September 1937 Rear-Admiral Ralph Leatham: September 1937-March 1938 Rear-Admiral Henry R. Moore: March 1938-March1939 Rear-Admiral Ronald H. C. Hallifax: March-May 1939 Commodore Sir Atwell H. Lake, Bt.: May 1939-November 1941 Captain Robert G. Duke: November 1941-February 1944 Commodore E. Gerald H. Bellars: February 1944-February 1945 Rear-Admiral Richard V. Symonds-Tayler: February 1945-February 1946 Commodore John A.S. Eccles: February 1946-January 1947 Captain William G. Andrewes: January-September 1947 Captain Kenneth L. Harkness: September 1947-June 1949 Rear-Admiral Dennis M. Lees: June 1949-May 1951 Rear-Admiral J. Peter L. Reid: May 1951-February 1953 Rear-Admiral Ballin I. Robertshaw: February 1953-May 1955 Rear-Admiral Philip W. Burnett: May 1955-February 1957 Rear-Admiral Varyl C. Begg: February 1957-September 1958 Rear-Admiral Edmund N.V. Currey: September 1958-May 1961 Commodore Donald McEwen: May 1961-June 1963 Commodore Michael F. Fell: June 1963-June 1965 Commodore Edward M.B. Hoare: June 1965-June 1967 Commodore A. Rodney B. Sturdee: June 1967-June 1969 Rear-Admiral Ian J. (Tim) Lees-Spalding: June 1969-June 1971 Rear-Admiral Herbert Gardner: June 1971-December 1973 Rear-Admiral Roderick D. Macdonald: December 1973-April 1976 Rear-Admiral Thomas H.E. Baird: April 1976-November 1977 Rear-Admiral John M.H. Cox: November 1977-July 1979 Rear-Admiral Kenneth H.G. Willis: July 1979-September 1981 Rear-Admiral Trevor O.K. Spraggs: September 1981-April 1983 Rear-Admiral John P. Barker: April 1983-December 1985 Rear-Admiral Peter F. Grenier: December 1985-April 1987 Rear-Admiral Christopher J. Howard: April 1987-April 1989 Rear-Admiral James Carine: April 1989-October 1991 Rear-Admiral J. Robert Shiffner: October 1991-May 1993 Rear-Admiral Jeremy J. Blackham: May 1993-February 1995 70

Rear-Admiral Rodney B. Lees: February 1995-January 1998 Rear-Admiral Peter A. Dunt: January 1998-August 2000 Rear-Admiral Roger G. Lockwood: August 2000-September 2002 Rear-Admiral Richard F. Cheadle: September 2002-December 2003 Rear-Admiral Richard G. Melly: December 2003-March 2005 Rear-Admiral Michael Kimmons: March 2005-2008

Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth(Flag Officer, Plymouth from 1969 until 1996):

Admiral Sir Houston Stewart: October 1860-October 1863 Admiral Sir Charles H. Fremantle: October 1863-October 1866 Admiral Sir William F. Martin: October 1866-November 1869 Admiral Sir Henry J. Codrington: November 1869-November 1872 Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel: November 1872-November 1875 Admiral Sir Thomas M.C. Symonds: November 1875-November 1878 Admiral Arthur Farquhar: November 1878-January 1880 Admiral of the Fleet the Hon. Sir Charles G. J. B. Elliot: January 1880-December 1881 Admiral Sir William H.Stewart: December 1881-December 1884 Admiral Augustus Phillimore: December 1884-May 1887 Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Hay: May 1887-December 1888 Admiral Sir William M. Dowell: December 1888-August 1890 Admiral of the Fleet the Duke of Edinburgh: August 1890-June 1893 Admiral Sir Algernon McL. Lyons: June 1893-June 1896 Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund R. Fremantle: June 1896-June 1899 Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax: June 1899-March 1900 Admiral Lord Charles T. Montagu-Douglas-Scott: March 1900-March 1903 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward H.Seymour: March 1903-March 1905 Admiral Sir Lewis A. Beaumont: March 1905-April 1908 Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes: April 1908-April 1911 Admiral Sir William H. May: April 1911-March 1913 Admiral Sir George le C. Egerton: March 1913-March 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir George J.S.Warrender, Bt.: March-November 1916 Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E.Bethell: November 1916-August 1918 Admiral Sir Cecil F. Thursby: August 1918-September 1920 Admiral Sir Montague E. Browning: September 1920-October 1923 Admiral Sir Richard F. Phillimore: October 1923-October 1926 Admiral Sir Rudolf W. Bentinck: October 1926-October 1929 Admiral the Hon. Sir Hubert G. Brand: October 1929-October 1932 Admiral Sir Eric J. A Fullerton: October 1932-June 1935 Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald A. R. Plunkett- Ernle-Erle-Drax: June 1935-October 1938 Admiral Sir Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: October 1938-May 1941 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles M. Forbes: May 1941-August 1943 Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham: August 1943-November 1945 Admiral Sir Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: November 1945-December 1947 Admiral Sir Robert L. Burnett: December 1947-March 1950 Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: March 1950-October 1951 72

Admiral Sir Maurice J. Mansergh: October 1951-November 1953 Admiral Sir Alexander C.G. Madden: November 1953-December 1955 Admiral Sir C.T. Mark Pizey: December 1955-February 1958 Admiral Sir Richard G. Onslow: February 1958-November 1960 Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: November 1960-November 1962 Admiral Sir Nigel S. Henderson: November 1962-June 1965 Vice-Admiral Sir A.A. Fitzroy Talbot: June 1965-July 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles P. Mills: July 1967-July 1969 Vice-Admiral John C.Y. Roxburgh: July-September 1969 Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: September 1969-December 1970 Vice-Admiral Sir J. Rae McKaig: December 1970-March 1973 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur M. Power: March 1973-February 1975 Vice-Admiral Sir A. Gordon Tait: February 1975-January 1977 Vice-Admiral Sir John M. Forbes: January 1977-January 1979 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter E.C. Berger: January 1979-February 1981 Vice-Admiral Sir Simon A.C. Cassels: February 1981-September 1982 Vice-Admiral Sir David W. Brown: September 1982-1985 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert W.F. Gerken: 1985-March 1987 Vice-Admiral Sir John M. Webster: March 1987-April 1990 Vice-Admiral Sir Alan Grose: April 1990-September 1992 Vice-Admiral Sir Roy T. Newman: September 1992-1996

Flag Captain/Chief of Staff, Plymouth :

Captain Lord Frederick H. Kerr: May 1860-April 1861 Captain Charles Vesey: April 1861-October 1863 Captain Henry Caldwell: November 1863-February 1864 Captain F. Beauchamp P. Seymour: February 1864-October 1866 Captain George W. Preedy: October 1866-November 1869 Captain Trevenen P. Coode: November 1869-November 1872 Captain Algernon C.F. Heneage: November 1872-November 1875 Captain John O. Hopkins: November 1875-November 1878 Captain William H. Whyte: November 1878-November 1879 Captain William B. Grant: November 1879-November 1882 Captain Richard Carter: November 1882-December 1884 Captain William E. Gordon: December 1884-March 1885 Captain William H. Cuming: March 1885-April 1887 Captain Harry W. Brent: April 1887-September 1888 Captain Richard Duckworth-King: September 1888-September 1890 Captain Arthur T. Brooke: September 1890-April 1893 Captain Bouverie F. Clark: April 1893-May 1896 Captain Charles Johnstone: May 1896-October 1898 Captain Harry T. Grenfell: October 1898-April 1900 Captain Sir Richard Poore, Bt.: April-August 1900 Captain Gerald C. Langley: August 1900-June 1901 Captain Robert S. Rolleston: June 1901-October 1902 Captain Arthur W.E. Prothero: October 1902-October 1903 Captain Cecil F. Thursby: October 1903-January 1905 Captain Montague E. Browning: January 1905-May 1907 Captain the Hon. Edward S. Fitzherbert: May 1907-April 1908 Captain Lionel Halsey: April 1908-April 1911 Captain Arthur L. Cay: April 1911-March 1913 Captain Eric P.C. Back: March 1913-June 1915 Captain Charles F. Thorp: June 1915-July 1917 Captain Cecil H. Fox: July 1917-August 1918 Captain Charles La P. Lewin: August 1918-September 1920 Captain Alexander Lowndes: September 1920-April 1921 Captain Humphrey W.Bowring: April 1921-April 1923 Captain Lawrence W.Braithwaite: April 1923-April 1925 Captain Robert A.Hornell: April 1925-April 1927 Captain H.J.Studholme Brownrigg: April 1927-April 1929 Captain James M.Pipon: April 1929-September 1930 74

Captain Stephen St. L. Moore: September 1930-August 1933 Rear-Admiral T. Hugh Binney: August 1933-June 1935 Captain Patrick Macnamara: June 1935-November 1936 Captain Guy D’Oyly Hughes: November 1936-January1938 Captain Eric R.Bent: January 1938-January 1939 Captain the Hon.Claude P.Hermon-Hodge: January-September 1939 Rear-Admiral Frederic N. Attwood: September 1939-May 1941 Rear-Admiral Eric R. Bent: May 1941-February 1942 Commodore Thomas B.Fellowes: February-December 1942 Commodore Clifford Caslon: December 1942-September 1944 Commodore William Y. La R. Beverley: September 1944-October 1946 Captain W.R. Christopher Leggatt: October 1946-November 1947 Captain Jocelyn L. Storey: November 1947-January 1949 Captain Villiers N. Surtees: January 1949-June 1950 Captain Henry N.S. Brown: June 1950-March 1951 Captain Thomas V. Briggs: March 1951-April 1954 Captain Horace R. Law: April 1954-May 1956 Captain Christopher R.L. Argles: May 1956-May 1958 Captain John Howson: May 1958-January 1961 Captain Henry H.R. Moore: January 1961-March 1963 Captain John G.B. Morrow: March 1963-May 1966 Captain Terence G.V. Percy: May 1966-December 1967 Captain Frank W.Watson: December 1967-October 1969 Commodore William R.D. Gerard-Pearse: October 1969-February 1973 Commodore James W.M. Pertwee: February 1973-January 1975 Commodore Oliver P. Sutton: January 1975-October 1977 Commodore John A.F. Lawson: October 1977-April 1979 Commodore Noel Bearne: April 1979-April 1981 Commodore John M. Tait: April 1981-April 1982 Commodore Daniel J. Bradby; April 1982-October 1983 Commodore Ian W. Powe: October 1983-October 1985 Commodore Geoffrey Jacques: October 1985-1987 Captain Robert B. Mortlock: 1987-August 1989 Captain Michael D. Bracelin: August 1989-

Commander-in-Chief, The Nore (until 1961):

Vice-Admiral Sir William J.H. Johnstone: June 1860-June 1863 Admiral Sir George R. Lambert: June 1863-March 1864 Admiral Sir Charles Talbot: March 1864-April 1866 Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, Bt.: April 1866-April 1869 Admiral Richard L. Warren: April 1869-April 1870 Admiral the Hon. Charles G.J.B. Elliot: July-February 1873 Vice-Admiral the Hon George F. Hastings: February 1873-February 1876 Admiral Henry Chads: February 1876-September 1877 Admiral Sir William King Hall: September 1877-August 1879 Admiral Sir Reginald J.J.G. Macdonald: August 1879-July 1882 Admiral Sir Edward B. Rice: July 1882-October 1884 Admiral John Corbett: October 1884-July 1885 Admiral Prince Ernest of Leiningen: July 1885-July 1887 Admiral Charles L.D. Waddilove: July 1887-July 1888 Admiral Sir Thomas B. Lethbridge: July 1888-August 1890 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles T.Curme: August 1890-February 1892 Admiral Sir Algernon C.F. Heneage: February 1892-December 1894 Admiral Sir Richard Wells: December 1894-June 1896 Admiral Sir Henry F. Nicholson: June 1896-December 1897 Admiral Sir Charles F. Hotham: December 1897-July 1899 Admiral Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith: July 1899-September 1900 Admiral Sir William R. Kennedy: September 1900-November 1901 Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham: November 1901-January 1904 Admiral Sir Hugo L. Pearson: January 1904-January 1907 Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel: January 1907-December 1908 Admiral Sir Charles C.Drury: December 1908-August 1911 Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Bt.: August 1911-January 1915 Admiral of the Fleet Sir George A.Callaghan: January 1915-March 1918 Admiral Sir F. C. Doveton Sturdee, Bt.: March 1918-March 1921 Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas: March 1921-March 1924 Admiral Sir William E. Goodenough: March 1924-May 1927 Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: May 1927-May 1930 Admiral Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bt.: May 1930-May 1933 Admiral Sir Hugh J. Tweedie: May 1933-December 1935 Admiral Sir Edward R. G. R. Evans: December 1935-January 1939 Admiral Sir H. J. Studholme Brownrigg: January-December 1939 Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald A. R. Plunkett- Ernle-Erle-Drax: December 1939-April 1941 76

Admiral Sir George H. D’Oyly Lyon: April 1941-July 1943 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Tovey: July 1943-April 1946 Admiral Sir Harold M. Burrough: April 1946-November 1948 Admiral Sir Henry M. Moore: November 1948-November 1950 Admiral Sir Cecil H.J.Harcourt: November 1950-November1952 Admiral the Hon. Sir Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant: November 1952-May 1953 Admiral Sir Geoffrey N. Oliver: May 1953-October 1955 Admiral Sir Frederick R. Parham: October 1955-July 1958 Admiral Sir Robin L.F. Durnford-Slater: July 1958-March 1961

Flag Captain/Chief of Staff, The Nore (until 1901 and from 1907 until 1961):

Captain William G. Luard: July 1860-July 1863 Captain John Fulford: July 1863-April 1866 Captain Donald McL. Mackenzie: April 1866-June 1869 Captain Thomas Miller: June 1869-June 1870 Captain John C. Wilson: June 1870-January 1872 Captain George W. Watson: January 1872-January 1875 Captain Charles T. Curme: January 1875-February 1876 Captain St. George C. D’Arcy-Irvine: February 1876-September 1877 Captain Thomas B. Lethbridge: September 1877-January 1879 Captain Thomas B.M. Sulivan: January 1879-July 1881 Captain John D’Arcy: July 1881-September 1883 Captain James A. Poland: September 1883-September 1886 Captain Frederick C.B. Robinson: September 1886-July 1887 Captain Arthur C. Curtis: July 1887-July 1890 Captain Leicester C. Keppel: July 1890-August 1892 Captain Henry H. Boys: August 1892-October 1894 Captain William H.C. St.Clair: October 1894-February 1896 Captain James L. Hammet: February 1896-January 1898 Captain William F.S. Mann: January 1898-July 1899 Captain Charles Campbell: July-October 1899 Captain Henry C. Bigge: October 1899-February 1901 Captain Archibald Y. Pocklington: February 1901-December 1902 Captain Arthur Y. Moggridge: January 1907–April 1908 Captain Clement Greatorex: April-December 1908 Captain Henry J. L. Clarke: December 1908-August 1911 Captain Philip H. Colomb: August 1911-January 1915 Captain Ernest A. Taylor: January 1915-May 1916 Captain William Bowden-Smith: May-July 1916 Captain Alexander V. Campbell: July 1916-April 1918 Captain Cecil M. Staveley: April-October 1918 Captain Theobald W.B. Kennedy: October 1918-May 1921 Captain Wilfred Tomkinson: May 1921-June 1923 Captain Herbert W.W. Hope: June 1923-December 1924 Captain the Hon. William S. Leveson-Gower: December 1924-May 1927 Captain the Hon. E. Barry S. Bingham: May 1927-May 1929 Captain Douglas B. Le Mottee: May 1929-May 1931 Captain Reginald V. Holt: May 1931-August 1933 Captain Hector Boyes: August 1933-November 1934 78

Captain Robert B. Ramsay: November 1934-December 1935 Captain Reginald B. Darke: December 1935-August 1937 Captain P. Esmonde Phillips: August 1937-July 1938 Captain the Hon. George Fraser: July 1938-May 1940 Rear-Admiral Alfred H. Taylor: May 1940-March 1943 Commodore George H. Creswell: March-October 1943 Commodore Robert G.H. Linzee: October 1943-April 1946 Captain Albert L. Poland: April 1946-July 1948 Captain Lennox A. K. Boswell: July 1948-May 1949 Captain Arthur M. Knapp: May 1949-June 1951 Captain Herbert F.H. Layman: June 1951-January 1953 Captain Ronald E. Portlock: January 1953-December 1954 Captain John A. W. Tothill: December 1954-July 1956 Captain William A.F. Hawkins: July 1956-December 1957 Captain Roger B.N. Hicks: December 1957-April 1960 Captain Barry J. Anderson: April 1960-March 1961

Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth(from 1913 until 1919 and from 1939 until 1946; Coast of Scotland from 1919 until 1939; Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 1946):

Admiral Sir Robert Lowry: July 1913-June 1916 Admiral Sir Frederick T.Hamilton: June 1916-October 1917 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: October 1917-March 1919 Admiral Sir Herbert L. Heath: March 1919-April 1922 Vice-Admiral Sir John F.E.Green: April 1922-June 1923 Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Y.Tyrwhitt, Bt.: June 1923-June 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan: June 1925-June 1926 Rear-Admiral Humphrey W. Bowring: June 1926-June 1928 Rear-Admiral John E. Cameron: June 1928-July 1929 Rear-Admiral Theodore J. Hallett: July 1929-July 1931 Rear-Admiral the Hon. William S. Leveson Gower: July 1931-July 1933 Rear-Admiral Everard J. Hardman-Jones: July 1933-July 1935 Rear-Admiral Robert C. Davenport: July 1935-July 1937 Vice-Admiral Evelyn C. O. Thomson: July 1937-August 1939 Admiral Sir Charles G. Ramsey: August 1939-June 1942 Admiral Sir Wilbraham T. R. Ford: June 1942-June 1944 Admiral Sir William J. Whitworth: June 1944-July 1946 Admiral Sir Frederick H.G. Dalrymple-Hamilton: July 1946-July 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir Ernest R. Archer: July 1948-July 1950 Vice-Admiral Sir Angus E.M.B. Cunninghame Graham: July 1950-August 1951 Rear-Admiral John H.F. Crombie: August 1951-October 1953 Vice-Admiral Sir W. Geoffrey A. Robson: October 1953-March 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir John W. Cuthbert: March 1956-July 1958 Vice-Admiral J. David Luce: July 1958-December 1959 Vice-Admiral Sir Royston H. Wright: December 1959-September 1961 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur R. Hezlet: September 1961-June 1964 Vice-Admiral Sir G.David A. Gregory: June 1964-July 1966 Vice-Admiral Sir John O.C. Hayes: July 1966-July 1968 Vice-Admiral Sir Ian L.M. McGeoch: July 1968-May 1970 Rear-Admiral David A. Dunbar-Nasmith: May 1970-July 1972 Rear-Admiral Martin N. Lucey: July 1972-August 1974 Vice-Admiral Sir J. Anthony R. Troup: August 1974-June 1977 Vice-Admiral Sir Cameron Rusby: June 1977-November 1979 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas H.E. Baird: November 1979-January 1982 Vice-Admiral Robert R. Squires: January 1982-December 1983 Vice-Admiral Sir Nicholas J.S. Hunt: December 1983-May 1985 80

Vice-Admiral Sir George M.F. Vallings: May 1985-October 1987 Vice-Admiral Sir Jock C.K. Slater: October 1987-February 1989 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael H. Livesay: February 1989-March 1991 Vice-Admiral Sir Hugo M. White: March 1991-November 1992 Vice-Admiral Sir C. Christopher Morgan: November 1992-April 1996 Rear-Admiral John G. Tolhurst: April 1996-September 1997 Rear-Admiral A. Michael Gregory: September 1997-August 2000 Rear-Admiral Derek J. Anthony: August 2000-May 2003 Rear-Admiral Nicholas H.L. Harris: May 2003-April 2006 Rear-Admiral Philip L. Wilcocks: April-December 2006 Rear-Admiral C. Anthony Johnstone-Burt: December 2006-February 2008 Rear-Admiral Philip A. Jones: February-September 2008 Rear-Admiral Martin B. Alabaster: September 2008-September 2011 Rear-Admiral Christopher J. Hockley: September 2011-August 2014 Rear-Admiral John R.H. Clink: August 2014-May 2015 Rear-Admiral John S. Weale: May 2015-2020

Chief of Staff, Rosyth :

Captain Henry W. Parker: February 1918-April 1919 Captain the Hon. Herbert Meade: April 1919-May 1921 Rear-Admiral Henry T. Buller: May 1921-January 1922 Captain Percy L.H. Noble: January 1922-June 1922 Vice-Admiral Evelyn C. O. Thomson: October 1939-October 1940 Rear-Admiral William G. Benn: October 1940-May 1942 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Edmund R. Drummond: May 1942-September 1945 Commodore John W. Farquhar: September 1945-1947 Captain John W. Boutwood: April 1947-April 1949 Captain Raymond M.T.Taylor: April 1949-June 1950 Captain Robert J.O. Otway-Ruthven: June 1950-July 1952 Captain Richard B. Honnywill: July 1952-March 1954 Captain the Earl of Roden: March 1954-October 1956 Captain Archibald J.F. Milne-Home: October 1956-April 1959 Captain Ian M. Clegg: April 1959-June 1961 Captain Barry J. Anderson: June 1961-October 1962 Captain Edward M. Usherwood: October 1962-February 1964 Captain Thomas N. Catlow: February 1964-November 1965 Captain Robert A. Gilchrist: November 1965-November 1967 Captain Cecil A. Johnson: November 1967-August 1969 Captain John H. Murray: August 1969-May 1972 Captain James S. Launders: May 1973-August 1974 Captain Robert S. Browning: August 1974-June 1976 Captain Arthur Checksfield: June 1976-May 1978 Captain Richard J. Bates: May 1978-March 1980 Captain James B. Wallace: March 1980-March 1982 Captain David N. O’Sullivan: March 1982-1983

Captain Michael C. Gordon-Lennox: October 1985-1988 Captain Robert M. Lawson: 1988-June 1990 Captain Richard A. Smith: June 1990-

Commander-in-Chief, Orkneys and Shetlands (from 1914 until 1920 and from 1939 until 1945):

Admiral the Hon. Sir Stanley C.J. Colville: September 1914-February 1916 Admiral Sir Frederic E.E.Brock: February 1916-January 1918 Admiral Sir Herbert G. King-Hall: January 1918-March 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert J. Prendergast: March 1919-February 1920 Admiral Sir Wilfred F. French: September-December 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir T. Hugh Binney: December 1939-January 1942 Admiral Sir Lionel V. Wells: January 1942-April 1944 Vice- Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood: April 1944-March 1945

Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches (from 1939 until 1945; Coast of Ireland until 1922):

Rear-Admiral Sir Lewis T. Jones: March 1862-March 1865 Vice-Admiral Charles Frederick: March 1865-October 1867 Rear-Admiral Claude H.M. Buckle: November 1867-November 1869 Rear-Admiral Arthur Forbes: November 1869-May 1871 Rear-Admiral Edmund Heathcote: May 1871-January 1874 Rear-Admiral Robert Coote: January 1874-June 1876 Rear-Admiral Henry S. Hillyar: June 1876-September 1878 Vice-Admiral William M. Dowell: September 1878-April 1880 Rear-Admiral Richard Vesey Hamilton: April 1880-April 1883 Rear-Admiral Thomas B. Lethbridge: April 1883-March 1885 Rear-Admiral Henry D. Hickley: March 1885-December 1886 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Walter C. Carpenter: January 1887-December 1888 Rear-Admiral James E. Erskine: December 1888-January 1892 Rear-Admiral Henry C. St.John: January 1892-January 1895 Rear-Admiral Claude E. Buckle: January 1895-January 1898 Rear-Admiral Atwell P.M. Lake: January 1898-February 1901 Vice-Admiral Edmund F. Jeffreys: February 1901-January 1904 Vice-Admiral Angus Macleod: January 1904-March 1906 Rear-Admiral George F. King-Hall: March 1906-July 1908 Rear-Admiral Sir Alfred W. Paget: July 1908-April 1911 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles H.Coke: April 1911-July 1915 Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly: July 1915-July 1919 Admiral Sir Reginald G.O.Tupper: July 1919-April 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir Ernest F.A.Gaunt: April 1921-June 1922 Admiral Sir Martin E.Dunbar-Nasmith: September 1939-February 1941 Admiral Sir Percy L.H.Noble: February 1941-October 1942 83

Admiral Sir Max K.Horton: November 1942-August 1945

Chief of Staff, Western Approaches :

Captain Charles D. Carpendale: August 1915-June 1917 Captain Francis M. Leake: June 1917-June 1919 Captain Cecil D.S. Raikes: June 1919-February 1921 Captain Arthur E.Wood: February 1921-June 1922 Commodore John M. Mansfield: February 1941-January 1943 Commodore Alfred S. Russell: January-November 1943 Commodore Ian A.P. Macintyre: November 1943-1945

Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland (until 1970):

Captain Richard G. Onslow: February 1947-November 1948 Captain Anthony F. Pugsley: November 1948-December 1950 Captain Maxwell Richmond: December 1950-January 1952 Captain Donald H. Connell-Fuller: January 1952-January 1954 Captain Auberon C.A.C. Duckworth: January 1954-April 1956 Captain Philip F. Powlett: April 1956-May 1958 Captain Christopher R.L. Argles: May 1958-October 1959 Captain Erroll N. Sinclair: October 1959-November 1961 Captain Dennis H. Mason: November 1961-October 1963 Captain John C. Cartwright: October 1963-October 1965 Captain Donald V.M. Macleod: October 1965-November 1968 Captain Anthony S. Morton: November 1968-1970

Vice-Admiral/Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers (until 1970; Carriers and Amphibious Ships from 1970 until 1979):

Rear-Admiral Reginald G. H. Henderson: September 1931-September.1933 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander R. M. Ramsay: September 1933-March 1936 Vice-Admiral Noel F. Laurence: March 1936-July 1937 Vice-Admiral Guy C. C. Royle: July 1937-July 1939 Vice-Admiral Lionel V. Wells: July 1939-August 1940 Rear-Admiral Walter T. Couchman: ?-December 1954 Rear-Admiral Arthur R. Pedder: December 1954-May 1956 Vice-Admiral Manley L. Power: May 1956-October 1957 Rear-Admiral Hector C. D. MacLean: October 1957-January 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander N.C. Bingley: January 1958-January 1959 Vice-Admiral Charles L.G. Evans: January 1959-March 1960 Rear-Admiral Richard M. Smeeton: March 1960-January 1962 Vice-Admiral Frank H.E. Hopkins: January 1962-January 1963 Rear-Admiral Donald C.E.F. Gibson: January 1963-April 1964 Rear-Admiral H. Richard B. Janvrin: April 1964-February 1966 Rear-Admiral William D. O’Brien: February 1966-April 1967 Rear-Admiral L. Derek Empson: April 1967-June 1968 Rear-Admiral Michael F. Fell: June 1968-July 1970 Rear-Admiral John D. Treacher: July 1970-May 1972 Rear-Admiral Raymond D. Lygo: May 1972-January 1974 Rear-Admiral A. Desmond Cassidi: January 1974-May 1975 Rear-Admiral James H.F. Eberle: May 1975-March 1977 Rear-Admiral William D.M. Staveley: March 1977-July 1978 Rear-Admiral Peter G.M. Herbert: July 1978-1979

Chief Staff Officer :

Captain Brian Egerton: May 1933-May 1935 Captain Maitland W.S. Boucher: May 1935-July 1937 Captain Charles A.A. Larcom: July 1937-January 1939 Captain Arthur J. Power: January 1939-April 1940 Captain H. Richard B. Janvrin: September 1955-October 1956 Captain Alan W.F. Sutton: October 1956-November 1958 Captain B.C. Godfrey Place: November 1958-April 1960 Captain Nigel G. Hallett: April 1960-October 1961 Captain Cedric K. Roberts: October 1961-November 1962 Captain Jack M. Henry: November 1962-June 1964 Captain John O. Roberts: June 1964-July 1966 Captain Edgar G. Brown: July 1966-February 1968 Captain Denis H. Frazer: February 1968-July 1969 Captain Ian J. Brown: July 1969-July 1971 Captain Alan J. Leahy: July 1971-August 1973 Captain David T. McKeown: August 1973-September 1975 Captain Linley E. Middleton: September 1975-January 1978 Captain Roger C. Dimmock: January 1978-1970

Capability Director, Carrier Strike (from 2003 until 2009 and from 2013):

Rear-Admiral Nigel C.F. Guild: December 2003-2009 Rear-Admiral Henry H. Parker: February 2013-July 2014 Rear-Admiral Graeme A. Mackay: July 2014-

Flag Officer, Air(Home)(Naval Air Command from 1963 until 2003 and from 2008; and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff(Carriers and Aviation) from 2012):

Vice-Admiral Denis W. Boyd: June 1945-April 1946 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey N. Oliver: April-September 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas H. Troubridge: September 1946-November1947 Admiral Sir Reginald H. Portal: November 1947-March 1951 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Lambe: March 1951-January 1953 Vice-Admiral Sir John A.S. Eccles: January 1953-June 1955 Vice-Admiral Sir Caspar John: June 1955-March 1957 Admiral Sir Walter T. Couchman: March 1957-January 1960 Admiral Sir Deric D.E. Holland-Martin: January 1960-May 1961 Vice-Admiral Desmond P. Dreyer: May 1961-October 1962 Vice-Admiral Sir John G. Hamilton: October 1962-January 1964 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard M. Smeeton: January 1964-October 1965 Vice-Admiral Sir Donald C.E.F. Gibson: October 1965-October 1968 Vice-Admiral Sir H. Richard B. Janvrin: October 1968-November 1970 Vice-Admiral Michael F. Fell: November 1970-June 1972 Vice-Admiral John D. Treacher: June 1972-August 1973 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter M. Austin: August 1973-August 1976 Rear-Admiral John O. Roberts: August 1976-February 1978 Vice-Admiral Sir A. Desmond Cassidi: February 1978-June 1979 Rear-Admiral Edward R. Anson: June 1979-May 1982 Vice-Admiral Sir John M.H. Cox: May 1982-September 1983 Vice-Admiral Sir Derek R. Reffell: September 1983-September 1984 Rear-Admiral Linley E. Middleton: September 1984-February 1987 Rear-Admiral Roger C. Dimmock: February 1987-August 1988 Rear-Admiral Michael H.G. Layard: August 1988-December 1990 Rear-Admiral Colin H.D. Cooke-Priest: December 1990-February 1993 Rear-Admiral Ian D.G. Garnett: February 1993-June 1995 Rear-Admiral Terence W. Loughran: June 1995-October 1998 Rear-Admiral Iain R. Henderson: October 1998-July 2001 Rear-Admiral Scott Lidbetter: July 2001-2003 Rear-Admiral Simon B. Charlier: September 2008-April 2010 Rear-Admiral Thomas A. Cunningham: April 2010-September 2012 Rear-Admiral Russell G. Harding: September 2012-May 2015 Rear-Admiral Keith E. Blount: May 2015-February 2019 Rear-Admiral Martin J. Connell: February 2019-

Chief of Staff(Commodore, Naval Aviation from 2000):

Captain Sir Anthony W. Buzzard, Bt.: January 1948-December 1949 Captain Alexander N.C. Bingley: December 1949-July 1952 Captain Kenneth S. Colquhoun: July 1952-May 1954 Captain Arthur S. Bolt: May 1954-April 1956 Captain David G. Goodwin: April 1956-July 1957 Captain Sidney Grattan Cooper: July 1957-October 1959 Captain Hugh S. Barber: October 1959-June 1962 Captain Frederick Stovin-Bradford: June 1962-September 1965 Captain Alfred R. Rawbone: September 1965-October 1967 Captain Keith A. Leppard: October 1967-August 1969 Captain Antony L.L. Skinner: August 1969-August 1970 Commodore Cyril J. Cunningham: August 1970-May 1972 Commodore Donald B. Morison: May 1972-October 1974 Commodore W. Duncan Lang: October 1974-September 1976 Commodore Derek C. Matthews: September 1976-November 1978 Commodore Brian G. Young: November 1978-April 1981 Commodore Anthony Casdagli: April 1981-February 1984 Captain Peter J. Williams: February 1984-October 1985 Captain Walter J. Flindell: October 1985-1987 Captain Noel C.H. James: 1987-1990

Commodore Christopher J.S. Craig: 1991-1993

Commodore Peter A. Fish: 199 -199 Commodore Simon C. Thornewill: 199 -2000 Commodore Christopher H.T. Clayton: 2000-September 2002 Commodore Steven C. Jermy: September 2002-November 2004 Commodore Simon B. Charlier: November 2004-October 2006 Commodore Jeremy H. Stanford: October 2006-January 2009 Commodore Martin W. Westwood: January 2009-August 2011 Commodore Graeme A. Mackay: August 2011-April 2014 Commodore Matthew P. Briers: April 2014-August 2016 Commodore Stephen M. Allen: August 2016-July 2019 Commodore Adrian P. Orchard: July 2019-

Flag Officer/ Rear-Admiral, Submarines (and Commander/Chief of Staff, Operations, The Fleet from 1993 until 2015; Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff(Ships and Submarines) from 2014 until 2015; Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff(Submarines ) from 2015):

Rear-Admiral Douglas L. Dent: August 1919-August 1921 Rear-Admiral Hugh F.P.Sinclair: August 1921-September 1923 Vice-Admiral Wilmot S. Nicholson: September 1923-September 1925 Rear-Admiral Vernon H.S.Haggard: September 1925-September 1927 Rear-Admiral Henry E.Grace: September 1927-September 1929 Rear-Admiral Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: September 1929-September 1931 Rear-Admiral Charles J. C. Little: September 1931-December 1932 Rear-Admiral Noel F. Laurence: December 1932-December 1934 Rear-Admiral Cecil P. Talbot: December 1934-December 1936 Rear-Admiral Robert H. T. Raikes: December 1936-December 1938 Rear-Admiral Bertram C. Watson: December 1938-January 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir Max K. Horton: January 1940-November 1942 Rear-Admiral Claud B. Barry: November 1942-September 1944 Rear-Admiral George E. Creasy: September 1944-November 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir John M. Mansfield: November 1946-August 1948 Rear-Admiral Guy Grantham: August 1948-January 1950 Rear-Admiral Sydney M. Raw: January 1950-January 1952 Rear-Admiral George W.G. Simpson: January 1952-February 1954 Rear-Admiral George B.H. Fawkes: February 1954-December 1955 Rear-Admiral Wilfrid J.W. Woods: December 1955-November 1957 Rear-Admiral Bertram W. Taylor: November 1957-November 1959 Rear-Admiral Arthur R. Hezlet: November 1959-September 1961 Rear-Admiral Hugh S. Mackenzie: September 1961-May 1963 Rear-Admiral Horace R. Law: May 1963-May 1965 Rear-Admiral Ian L.M. McGeoch: May 1965-December 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael P. Pollock: December 1967-November 1969 Vice-Admiral Sir John C.Y. Roxburgh: November 1969-July 1972 Vice-Admiral J. Anthony R. Troup: July 1972-June 1974 Vice-Admiral Sir Iwan G. Raikes: June 1974-November 1976 Vice-Admiral John D.E. Fieldhouse: November 1976-December 1978 Vice-Admiral Robert R. Squires: December 1978-December 1981 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter G.M. Herbert: December 1981-May 1983 Vice-Admiral Sir John F. Woodward: May 1983-November 1984 Rear-Admiral Richard G. Heaslip: November 1984-May 1987 Rear-Admiral Peter F. Grenier: May 1987-September 1989 Vice-Admiral Sir John F. Coward: September 1989-September 1991 89

Rear-Admiral R. Toby Frere: September 1991-December 1993 Rear-Admiral Roger C. Lane-Nott: December 1993-August 1996 Rear-Admiral James F. Perowne: August 1996-August 1998 Rear-Admiral Robert P. Stevens: August 1998-January 2002 Rear-Admiral Niall S.R. Kilgour: February 2002-June 2004 Rear-Admiral Paul Lambert: June 2004-September 2006 Rear-Admiral David J. Cooke: September 2006-January 2009 Rear-Admiral Mark Anderson: January 2009-March 2011 Rear-Admiral Ian F. Corder: March 2011-May 2013 Rear-Admiral Matthew J. Parr: May 2013-July/October 2015 Rear-Admiral Alexander J. Burton: October 2014-December 2015 Rear-Admiral John S. Weale: July/October 2015-2020 (Submarines) Rear-Admiral Christopher R.S. Gardner: December 2015-February 2019 (Ships) Rear-Admiral James G. Higham: February 2019- (Ships)

Chief of Staff :

Captain Max K. Horton: July 1920-March 1922 Captain Cecil P. Talbot: March 1922-December 1924 Captain Geoffrey Layton: December 1924-July 1927 Captain Philip E. Phillips: July 1927-July 1929 Captain Allan Poland: July 1929-July 1931 Captain Colin Cantlie: July 1931-June 1933 Captain Cyril G.B. Coltart: June 1933-September 1934 Captain Claud B. Barry: September 1934-February 1937 Captain Geoffrey M. K. Keble-White: February 1937-February 1939 Captain Ian A.P. Macintyre: February 1939-February 1942 Captain Sydney M. Raw: June 1942-December 1943 Captain George B.H. Fawkes: December 1943-1946 Captain David C. Ingram: 1946-April 1947 Captain Wilfrid J.W. Woods: April 1947-November 1948 Captain Jack E. Slaughter: November 1948-November 1950 Captain Bertram W. Taylor: November 1950-November 1952 Captain Arthur R. Hezlet: November 1952-November 1954 Captain Robert L. Alexander: November 1954-December 1956 Captain Hugh S. Mackenzie: December 1956-November 1958 Captain George E. Hunt: November 1958-August 1960 Captain Thomas E. Barlow: August 1960-May 1962 Captain M. Lindsay C. Crawford: May 1962-January 1965 Captain Brian G.H.M. Baynham: January 1965-December 1966 Captain W. David S. Scott: December 1966-February 1969 Captain A. Gordon Tait: February 1969-June 1970 Captain Brian C.G. Hutchings: June 1970-May 1972 Captain Peter G.M. Herbert: May 1972-January 1974 Captain Anthony J. Whetstone: January 1974-January 1976 Captain Robin J.P. Heath: January 1976-April 1978 Captain James B. Wallace: April 1978-January 1980 Captain Terence D.A. Thompson: January 1980-1982 Captain Richard J. Husk: 1982-February 1984 Captain Norman F. Dingemans: February 1984-October 1985 Captain R. Toby Frere: October 1985-March 1988 Captain A. Paul Hoddinott: March 1988-February 1990 Captain James B. Taylor: February 1990-1992 Commodore Roger C. Lane-Nott: 1992-July 1993 Commodore Martin D. Macpherson: July 1993-1996 91

Commodore Derek J. Anthony: 1996-May 1997 Commodore Timothy P. McClement: May 1997-1999 Commodore Nicholas H.L. Harris: 1999-2000 Commodore David J. Russell: 2000-2002

Admiral Commanding Reserves (from 1875 until 1976):

Vice-Admiral Sir J. Walter Tarleton: January 1875-November 1876 Vice-Admiral Augustus Phillimore: November 1876-December 1879 Rear-Admiral Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh: November 1879-November 1882 Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony H. Hoskins: November 1882-September 1885 Vice-Admiral John K.E. Baird: September 1885-April 1888 Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon: April 1888-April 1891 Vice-Admiral Robert O’B. Fitzroy: April 1891-April 1894 Vice-Admiral Sir Edward H.Seymour: April 1894-May 1897 Vice-Admiral Sir Compton E. Domvile: May 1897-May 1900 Vice-Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel: May 1900-May 1903 Admiral Ernest Rice: May 1903-February 1905 Admiral Sir Reginald F.H.Henderson: February 1905-December 1909 Admiral Sir Frederick S. Inglefield: December 1909-January 1913 Admiral Sir Arthur M.Farquhar: January 1913-June 1915 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E.Bethell: June 1915-November 1916 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: November 1916-July 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil F.Thursby: July 1917-July 1918 Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. de Chair: July 1918-July 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir Morgan Singer: July 1921-July 1923 Admiral Sir Hugh H. D. Tothill: July 1923-July 1925 Admiral Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker: July 1925-August 1927 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur A. M. Duff: August 1927-August 1929 Admiral Sir John D. Kelly: August 1929-August 1931 Vice-Admiral Henry W. Parker: August 1931 –October 1933 Admiral Sir George K. Chetwode: October 1933-January 1936 Vice-Admiral Sir H. J. Studholme Brownrigg: January 1936-November 1938 Admiral Sir Noel F. Laurence: November 1938-January 1941 Vice-Admiral John G. P. Vivian: January 1941-October 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Morgan: October 1945-October 1947 Admiral Sir Wilfrid R. Patterson: October 1947-October 1949 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Guy H.E.Russell: October 1949-October 1950 Vice-Admiral Sir William R. Slayter: October 1950-June 1952 Vice-Admiral John A.S. Eccles: June 1952-January 1953 Vice-Admiral Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff: April 1953-April 1955 Vice-Admiral John W. Cuthbert: April 1955-January 1956 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith: January 1956-April 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir W. Kaye Edden: April 1958-April 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir R. Alastair Ewing: April 1960-August 1962 93

Rear-Admiral Hugh C. Martell: August 1962-April 1965 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey H. Carew-Hunt: April 1965-April 1968 Rear-Admiral B. C. Godfrey Place: April 1968-May 1970 Rear-Admiral Ian D. McLaughlan: May 1970-July 1972 Rear-Admiral Ian G.W. Robertson: July 1972-August 1974 Rear-Admiral Hubert W.E. Hollins: August 1974-December 1976

Assistant/Chief Staff Officer, Reserves :

Captain William H. Whyte: November 1879-January 1881 Captain R. Gordon Douglas: January 1881-January 1883 Captain Lindesay Brine: January 1883-March 1886 Captain Charles F. Hotham: March 1886-December 1887 Captain Edward H. Seymour: December 1887-July 1889 Captain Francis Durrant: July 1889-January 1891 Captain Edmund C. Drummond: February 1891-April 1892 Captain Arthur H. Alington: April 1892-May 1894 Captain Arthur D. Fanshawe: May 1894-February 1897 Captain Robert W. Stopford: February 1897-August 1899 Captain Charles J. Norcock: August 1899-October 1902 Captain George F. King-Hall: October 1902-October 1904 Captain John E. Bearcroft: October 1904-April 1906 Captain Thomas P. Walker: April 1906-March 1908 Captain Frederick A. Warden: March 1908-March 1909 Captain Richard P.F.Purefoy: March 1909-March 1911 Captain Mark E.F. Kerr: March 1911-November 1912 Captain Cresswell J. Eyres; November 1912-April 1913 Captain Hugh H.D. Tothill: April 1913-December 1914 Rear-Admiral William H. Baker-Baker: December 1914-January 1916 Captain Philip H. Colomb: January 1916-February 1917 Captain Edward L. Booty: February 1917-December 1919 Captain Vincent B. Molteno: December 1919-1921 Captain George Trewby: February 1920-February 1922 Captain Edward C. Kennedy: February 1922-March 1923 Captain Cecil M. Staveley: March 1923-September 1924 Captain Basil G. Washington: September 1924-September 1926 Captain Horace W. Longden: September 1926-August 1927 Captain Ronald Howard: August 1927-August 1929 Captain Charles G. Ramsey: August 1929-September 1931 Captain Herbert A. Forster: September 1931-September 1932 Captain Vernon S. Butler: September 1932-September 1934 Captain Frederic C. Bradley: September 1934-June 1935 Captain Kenneth H.L. Mackenzie: September 1935-December 1936 Captain Leslie H. Ashmore: December 1936-March 1938 Captain Humphrey B. Jacomb: March 1938-November 1939 Captain Vernon S. Butler: November 1939-December 1941 Captain Frederic N. Attwood: December 1941-June 1942 95

Commodore John M. Dick: June 1942-1946 Commodore D.A. Carey: July 1943-1945 Commodore Hugh C.C. Forsyth: 1945-1946 Captain Richard T. White: October 1945-January 1948 Captain Ian M.R. Campbell: January-December 1948 Captain William L.G. Adams: December 1948-November 1950 Captain Alan D.H. Jay: November 1950-March 1952 Captain Edmund N.V. Currey: March 1952-September 1954 Captain Archibald J.F. Milne-Home: September 1954-March 1956 Captain W. Frank N. Gregory-Smith: March 1956-July 1958 Captain Ronald de L. Brooke: July 1958-June 1960 Captain Herbert T. Harrel: June 1960-May 1962 Captain Richard E. Roe: May 1962-May 1964 Captain Ronald W. Forrest: May 1964-May 1966 Captain Michael L. Stacey: May 1966-May 1968 Captain Michael W.G. Fawcett: May 1968-April 1970 Captain Arthur Checksfield: April 1972-June 1974 Captain Colin N. MacEacharn: June 1974-March 1976

Captain, Fleet Reserve, Portsmouth (from 1891 until 1905):

Captain Robert Woodward: August 1891-May 1893 Captain Charles J. Balfour: June 1893-March 1895 Captain Atwell P.M. Lake: March 1895-March 1896 Captain Thomas S. Jackson: March-October 1896 Captain Andrew K. Bickford: November 1896-January 1898 Rear-Admiral James L. Hammet: January 1898-April 1900 Captain William des V. Hamilton: April 1900-April 1901 Capain James L. Burr: April 1901-August 1902 Captain Harry L.F. Royle: August 1902-February 1904 Captain George H. Cherry: February 1904-January 1905

Captain, Fleet Reserve, Devonport (from 1891 until 1905):

Captain Charles L. Oxley: August 1891-August 1894 Captain William M. Lang: August 1894-December 1896 Captain William H. Henderson: December 1896-March 1898 Captain John H. Rainier: March 1898-March 1901 Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, Bt.: March 1901-June 1902 Captain Arthur W.E. Prothero: July 1902-January 1905

Captain, Fleet Reserve, Medway (from 1891 until 1905):

Captain Ernest Rice: July 1891-July 1893 Captain Swinton C. Holland: July 1893-July 1896 Captain Robert F. Hammick: July 1896-October 1898 Captain Angus Macleod: October 1898-February 1899 Captain William C.C. Forsyth: February 1899-February 1902 Captain Alvin C. Corry: February 1902-August 1903 Captain Archibald J. Pocklington: August 1903-June 1905

Captain, Scottish Coast Guard District (from 1903 until 1920 and from 1922 until 1923):

Captain Robert S.D. Cumming: May 1903-May 1906 Rear-Admiral Charles H. Robertson: May 1906-December 1908 Captain Heathcoat S. Grant: December 1908-December 1910 Captain Sir Arthur J. Henniker-Hughan, Bt.: December 1910-December 1912 Captain Stuart St.J. Farquhar: December 1912-September 1916 Captain Marcus R. Hill: September 1916-May 1918 Captain Warren H. D’Oyly: May-October 1918 Captain Clement C. Horne: October 1918-June 1919 Captain Louis C.S. Woollcombe: June 1919-February 1920 Captain Wilfrid Nunn: May 1922-January 1923

Captain, Eastern Coast Guard District (from 1903 until 1920):

Captain Frederick F. Fegen: May-November 1903 Captain Henry P. Routh: November 1903-September 1906 Rear-Admiral Charles H. Dare: September 1906-April 1909 Rear-Admiral William O. Story: April 1909-October 1911 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Robert F. Boyle: October 1911-June 1914 Captain Charles W. Keighly-Peach: June 1914-August 1917 Rear-Admiral Charles F. Thorp: August 1917-August 1919 Captain Herbert A. Adam: August 1919-January 1920

Captain, Southern Coast Guard District (from 1903 until 1920):

Captain Edward P. Jones: May 1903-August 1905 Rear-Admiral Leslie C. Stuart: August 1905-April 1906 Captain Charles W. Winnington-Ingram: April 1906-April 1909 Captain Evelyn R. Le Marchant: April 1909-January 1911 Captain William H. Baker-Baker: January 1911-April 1913 Captain John S. Luard: April 1913-May 1916 Rear-Admiral Robert E.R. Benson: May 1916-October 1918 Captain Warren H. D’Oyly: October 1918-September 1919 Captain Fawcet Wray: September 1919-January 1920

Captain, Western Coast Guard District (from 1903 until 1920):

Captain Henry L. Fleet: May 1903-May 1905 Rear-Admiral James E.C. Goodrich: May-November 1905 Captain Edward P. Ashe: November 1905-April 1907 Captain Julian C.A. Wilkinson: April 1907-February 1909 Captain Hubert Grant-Dalton: February 1909-February 1911 Captain Henry V.W. Elliott: February 1911-March 1913 Captain Herbert C.C. da Costa: March 1913-September 1916 Captain William J.S. Alderson: September 1916-April 1918 Rear-Admiral George B. Hutton: April 1918-April 1919 Captain Charles B. Miller: April 1919-January 1920

Captain, North of Ireland Coast Guard District (from 1903 until 1920 and from 1922 until 1923):

Captain Frederick O. Pike: May 1903-February 1906 Rear-Admiral Frederick St.G. Rich: February 1906-June 1907 Rear-Admiral Charles H.H. Moore: June 1907-June 1910 Captain Gerald C.A. Marescaux: June 1910-June 1912 Rear-Admiral Ernest G. Barton: June 1912-June 1919 Captain William D. Church: June 1919-January 1920 Captain Robert G.D. Dewar: July 1922-January 1923

Captain, South of Ireland Coast Guard District (from 1903 until 1920):

Captain Thomas Y. Greet: June 1903-February 1904 Captain Peyton Hoskyns: February 1904-October 1907 Rear-Admiral Robert G. Fraser: October 1907-February 1910 Captain Claud A.W. Hamilton: February 1910-January 1912 Captain Hugh T. Hibbert: January 1912-June 1915 Rear-Admiral Henry V.W. Elliott: June 1915-July 1919 Captain Hugh G.C. Somerville: July 1919-January 1920

Captain, North of Scotland Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain Alan C. Bruce: February 1920-May 1922

Captain, Rosyth Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1923):

Captain Louis C.S. Woollcombe: February 1920-June 1921 Captain Wilfrid Nunn: June 1921-May 1922

Captain, Humber Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain Stephen H. Radcliffe: January 1920-January 1922 Captain the Hon. Arthur L.O. Forbes-Sempill : January-May 1922

Captain, Nore Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1923):

Captain Herbert A. Adam: January-September 1920 Captain Harry H. Smyth: October 1920-May 1922 Captain the Hon. Arthur L.O. Forbes-Sempill: May 1922-January 1923

Captain, Portsmouth Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1923):

Captain Fawcet Wray: January 1920-September 1921 Captain George M. Keane: September 1921-November 1922 Captain Percival H. Hall-Thompson: November 1922-January 1923

Captain, Plymouth Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1923):

Rear-Admiral Charles B. Miller: January-May 1920 Captain Hugh J. Tweedie: May 1920-May 1922 Captain Ernest A. Taylor: May 1922-January 1923

Captain, Irish Sea Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain Denis B. Crampton: January 1920-January 1922 Captain Ernest A. Taylor: January-May 1922

Captain, Kingstown Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain William D. Church: January 1920-July 1921 Rear-Admiral Cecil H. Fox: July 1921-July 1922

Captain, Queenstown Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain Hugh G.C. Somerville: January 1920-July 1921 Captain John C.T. Glossop: July 1921-January 1922 Captain Hugh G.C. Somerville: January-July 1922

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Captain Buncrana Coast Guard District (from 1920 until 1922):

Captain Edward G. Lowther-Crofton: January-October 1920 Captain Robert G.D. Dewar: October 1920-July 1922

Flag Officer Commanding, Royal Yachts (until 1914 and from 1953 until 1997):

Vice-Admiral Sir John R.T. Fullerton: October 1884-April 1901 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Hedworth Lambton: April 1901-April 1903 Rear-Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, Bt.: April 1903-August 1905 Rear-Admiral Sir Colin R. Keppel: August 1905-August 1909 Commodore Norman C. Palmer: August 1909-December 1913 Commodore Douglas R. L. Nicholson: December 1913-August 1914 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Hubert G. Brand: May 1919-April 1922 Admiral Sir Henry T. Buller: April 1922-December 1931 Admiral the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade- Fetherstonhaugh: April 1931-December 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley B.N. North: December 1934-September 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir E.M. Conolly Abel Smith: February 1953-January 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Dawnay: January 1958-January 1962 Rear-Admiral Sir Joseph C.C. Henley: January 1962-March 1965 Rear-Admiral Sir Patrick J. Morgan: March 1965-August 1970 Rear-Admiral Sir Richard J. Trowbridge: August 1970-September 1975 Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh P. Janion: September 1975-February 1981 Rear-Admiral Sir Paul W. Greening: February 1981-September 1985 Rear-Admiral Sir John Garnier: September 1985-September 1990 Rear-Admiral Sir Robert N. Woodard: September 1990-April 1995 Commodore Anthony J.C. Morrow: April 1995-December 1997

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Admiral Superintendent, H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth(Flag Officer, Portsmouth from 1969 until 1996):

Rear-Admiral George G. Wellesley: June 1865-June 1869 Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper Key: July 1869-June 1870 Vice-Admiral William Loring: June 1870-November 1871 Rear-Admiral William H. Stewart: November 1871-April 1872 Rear-Admiral Sir F. Leopold McClintock: April 1872-April 1877 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald A.C. Foley: April 1877-April 1882 Rear-Admiral John D. McCrea: May 1882-March 1883 Rear-Admiral Frederick A. Herbert: April 1883-November 1886 Rear-Admiral John O. Hopkins: November 1886-August 1888 Rear-Admiral William E. Gordon: August 1888-May 1891 Rear-Admiral John A. Fisher: May 1891-February 1892 Rear-Admiral Charles G. Fane: February 1892-February 1896 Vice-Admiral Ernest Rice: February 1896-September 1899 Rear-Admiral Pelham Aldrich: September 1899-September 1902 Vice-Admiral Reginald F. H.Henderson: September 1902-February 1905 Rear-Admiral Sir Henry D. Barry: February 1905-November 1906 Vice-Admiral Charles G. Robinson: November 1906-May 1909 Vice-Admiral F. Alban A. G. Tate: May 1909-May 1912 Rear-Admiral Herbert L.Heath: May 1912-August 1915 Rear-Admiral Arthur W.Waymouth: August 1915-January 1917 Rear-Admiral Charles L.Vaughan-Lee: January1917-April 1920 Rear-Admiral Sir Edwyn S.Alexander-Sinclair: April 1920-September 1922 Vice-Admiral Sir E.Percy F.G.Grant: September 1922-January1925 Rear-Admiral Bertram S. Thesiger: January 1925-May 1927 Vice-Admiral Leonard A. B. Donaldson: May 1927-May 1931 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry K. Kitson: May 1931-September 1935 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert R. Turner: September 1935-November 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir Marshal L. Clarke: November 1940-November 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir L. Vaughan Morgan: November 1945-July 1949 Vice-Admiral William Y. La R. Beverley: July 1949-October 1951 Rear-Admiral A. Gordon V. Hubback: October 1951-October 1954 Vice-Admiral Jocelyn S.C. Salter: October 1954-October 1957 Rear-Admiral John H. Unwin: October 1957-January 1961 Rear-Admiral Sir John S.W. Walsham,Bt.: January 1961-January 1964 Rear-Admiral Joseph L. Blackham: January 1964-May 1966 Rear-Admiral Richard C. Paige: May 1966-July 1968 Rear-Admiral Arthur M. Power: July 1968-May 1971 102

Rear-Admiral Peter G. La Niece: May 1971-May 1973 Rear-Admiral Stanley L. McArdle: May 1973-August 1975 Rear-Admiral E.James W. Flower: August 1975-October 1976 Rear-Admiral Wilfrid J. Graham: October 1976-January 1979 Rear-Admiral Paul E. Bass: January 1979-January 1981 Rear-Admiral Anthony S. Tippet: January 1981-September 1983 Rear-Admiral John C. Warsop: September 1983-November 1985 Rear-Admiral Anthony Wheatley: November 1985-November 1987 Rear-Admiral Kenneth J. Eaton: November 1987-July 1989 Rear-Admiral Jonathan J.R. Tod: July 1989-September 1990 Rear-Admiral David K. Bawtree: September 1990-October 1993 Rear-Admiral Neil E. Rankin: October 1993-1996

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Captain of Dockyard, Portsmouth :

Captain R. Nelson Ommanney: January 1900-March 1903

Captain George A. Callaghan: October 1903-April 1904 Captain Francis R. Pelly: April 1904-December 1905 Captain Alban G. Tate: December 1905-July 1907 Captain Henry Loftus Tottenham: July 1907-March 1909 Captain William B. Fawckner: March 1909-February 1912 Rear-Admiral Cyril E. Tower: February 1912-June 1916 Rear-Admiral Edward H. Moubray: June 1916-May 1918 Captain Albert C. Scott: May 1918-December 1920 Captain Charles Tibbits: December 1920-February 1923 Captain Alfred H. Norman: February 1923-March 1925 Captain James D. Campbell: March 1925-December 1926 Captain Alexander R.W. Woods: December 1926-November 1928 Captain Reginald St. P. Parry: November 1928-January 1931 Captain Albert J. Robertson: January 1931-February 1933 Captain Edward B. Cloete: February 1933-May 1935 Captain William S.F. Macleod: May 1935-December 1936 Captain Kenneth H.L. Mackenzie: December 1936-March 1939 Captain Cuthbert Coppinger: March 1939-February 1941 Captain Irving M. Palmer: February 1941-January 1943 Captain Walter C. Tancred: January 1943-March 1945 Captain Edward F.B. Law: March 1945-March 1947 Captain Cecil R.L. Parry: March 1947-November 1948 Captain George V.M. Dolphin: November 1948-December 1950 Captain Peter Skelton: December 1950-October 1953 Captain P. Unwin: October 1953-October 1954 Captain John H. Unwin: October 1954-? 1955 Captain Archibald G. Forman: November 1955-April 1957 Captain Robin H. Maurice: April 1957-May 1959 Captain Bertie Pengelly: May 1959-May 1961 Captain Francis P.Baker: May 1961-May 1963 Captain John A. Marrack: May 1963-December 1965 Captain Terence L. Martin: December 1965-November 1967 Captain Kenneth H. Martin: November 1967-September 1968 Captain Philip R.G. Smith: September 1968-July 1969 Captain Kenneth H. Martin: July 1969-May 1971 Captain Henry E. Howard: May 1971-? 1973 104

Captain Stanley W. Clayden: December 1973-March 1975 Captain John L. Ommanney: April 1975-October 1977 Captain John R. Grindle: October 1977-February 1979 Captain Peter A. Pinkster: February 1979-May 1980 Captain Clifford J. Caughey: May 1980-February 1982 Captain Anthony R. Wavish: February 1982-1984 Captain Christopher J.T. Chamberlen: July 1984-1987 Captain Richard A. Smith: 1987-November 1989

Captain of the Portsmouth Dockyard Reserve (Steam Reserve until 1891; until 1903):

Captain George T. Gordon: April 1859-May 1861 Captain Henry Broadhead: May 1861-February 1864 Captain Henry Caldwell: February 1864-April 1866 Captain William C. Chamberlain: April 1866-November 1868 Captain Edward B. Rice: November 1868-December 1871 Captain Lord Gillford: December 1871-March 1874 Captain Charles L.D. Waddilove: March 1874-May 1877 Captain George H. Parkin: May-October 1877 Captain Theodore M. Jones: October 1877-January 1879 Captain Richard Wells: January 1879-August 1880 Captain William Codrington: August 1880-June 1881 Captain Philip H. Colomb: June 1881-June 1884 Captain Henry F. Nicholson: June 1884-July 1885 Captain Richard E. Tracey: July 1885-January 1888 Captain Alfred T. Dale: January 1888-November 1889 Captain Albert Hastings Markham: November 1889-August 1891 Captain Armand T. Powlett: August 1891-January 1892 Captain John C. Burnell: January 1892-January 1895 Captain Alexander G. McKechnie: January 1895-January 1898 Captain Reginald F.H. Henderson: January 1898-June 1899 Captain Alfred A.C. Parr: June 1899-May 1901 Captain William Wilson: June 1901-April 1903 Captain George A. Callaghan: May-October 1903

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Admiral Superintendent, H. M. Dockyard, Devonport (until 1970):

Vice-Admiral the Hon. James R. Drummond: May 1866-July 1870 Rear-Admiral William H. Stewart: July 1870-November 1871 Vice-Admiral Sir William King-Hall: November 1871-August 1875 Rear-Admiral William C. Chamberlain: August 1875-May 1876 Rear-Admiral George O. Willes: May 1876–February 1879 Rear-Admiral Charles W. Hope: February 1879-February 1880 Rear-Admiral Charles T. Curme: February 1880-July 1885 Vice-Admiral Henry D. Grant: July 1885-August 1888 Vice-Admiral Sir Walter J. Hunt-Grubbe: August 1888-August 1891 Rear-Admiral Robert H. More-Molyneux: August 1891-August 1894 Rear-Admiral Edmund J. Church: August 1894-November 1896 Rear-Admiral Henry J. Carr: November 1896-July 1899 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas S. Jackson: July 1899-July 1902 Vice-Admiral William H. Henderson: July 1902-March 1906 Vice-Admiral Charles J. Barlow: March 1906-March 1908 Vice-Admiral Charles H. Cross: March 1908-October 1910 Vice-Admiral Robert H.S. Stokes: October 1910-December 1913 Rear-Admiral Godfrey H.B.Mundy: December 1913-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, Bt.: December1916-September 1919 Rear-Admiral Edwin V.Underhill: September 1919-September 1922 Rear-Admiral Hugh L.P.Heard: September 1922-November 1924 Vice-Admiral Louis C. S.Woollcombe: November1924-March 1927 Vice-Admiral Oliver Backhouse: March 1927-March 1931 Vice-Admiral Harold O. Reinold: March 1931-March 1935 Vice-Admiral Arthur L. Snagge: March 1935-September 1938 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur N. Dowding: September 1938-December 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir R.S. Gresham Nicholson: December 1945-February1950 Admiral Sir Philip K. Enright: February 1950-March 1954 Vice-Admiral Leslie N. Brownfield: March 1954-November 1957 Vice-Admiral Sir Lancelot A.B. Peile: November 1957-September 1960 Vice-Admiral G. David A. Gregory: September 1960-April 1964 Rear-Admiral Arthur J. Cawthra: April 1964-October 1966 Rear-Admiral Denis B.H. Wildish: October 1966-May 1970

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Captain of Dockyard, Devonport :

Captain John A. Tuke: January-November 1903 Captain Charles H. Cochran: November 1903-June 1905 Captain Cecil Burney: June-July 1905 Captain Arthur J. Horsley: July 1905-September 1907 Captain R. Nelson Ommanney: September 1907-November 1908 Captain John A. Tuke: November 1908-January 1911 Captain Evelyn R. Le Marchant: January 1911-January 1913 Captain Henry J.L. Clarke: January 1913-June 1916 Rear-Admiral John Nicholas: June 1916-April 1918 Captain William J.S. Alderson: April 1918-November 1919 Captain Christopher R. Payne: November 1919-April 1920 Captain Richard Hyde: April 1920-April 1922 Captain Horace C. Watson: April 1922-March 1923 Captain John W. Carrington: March 1923-March 1924 Captain Geoffrey Mackworth: March 1924-March 1926 Captain Edward C. Boyle: March 1926-March 1928 Captain George W. Taylor: March 1928-April 1930 Captain Richard M. King: April 1930-December 1932 Captain John S.G. Fraser: December 1932-July 1934 Rear-Admiral Kenneth D.W. Macpherson: July 1934-December 1936 Captain Piers K. Kekewich: December 1936-January 1939 Captain Walter N.T. Beckett: January 1939-October 1940 Captain Colin S. Thomson: October 1940-February 1941 Rear-Admiral Algernon R. Smithwick: February 1941-November 1943 Rear-Admiral Albert J. Robertson: November 1943-October 1945 Captain Lawrence F. N. Ommanney: October 1945-July 1946 Captain Francis J. Butler: July 1946-August 1948 Captain Harry P. Currey: August 1948-August 1950 Captain John Jefferis: August 1950-August 1953 Captain Hugh C.B. Coleridge: August 1953-September 1955 Captain John R. Barnes: September 1955-December 1957 Captain William G. Parry: December 1957-January 1959 Captain Patrick J. Cowell: January 1959-November 1960 Captain Norman H. Pond: November 1960-May 1964 Captain William J.M. Teale: May 1964-August 1966 Captain Peter Keith-Welsh: August 1966-October 1969 Captain Dennis K.L. Learmount: October 1969-November 1971 Captain Michael C.M. Mansergh: November 1971-December 1973 107

Captain Peter J. Shaw: December 1973-July 1976 Captain John R. Wadman: July 1976-October 1978 Captain Arthur Checksfield: October 1978-April 1980 Captain Keith S. Pitt: April 1980-January 1982 Captain Peter H. Wright; January-December 1982 Captain Charles G. Le Mesurier: December 1982-February 1984 Captain Christopher P.R. Belton: February 1984-October 1985 Captain William H.H. McLeod: October 1985-1987

Captain John C.W. Lock: 1988-

Captain of the Devonport Dockyard Reserve (Steam Reserve until 1891; from 1891 until 1903):

Captain Astley Cooper-Key: July 1860-July 1863 Captain William Edmonstone: July 1863-April 1866 Captain George O. Willes: April 1866-January 1869 Captain William G. Luard: January 1869-May 1870 Captain Charles Fellowes: May 1870-May 1873 Captain Richard Vesey Hamilton: May 1873-March 1875 Captain Radulphus B. Oldfield: March 1875-September 1876 Captain Frederick A. Herbert: September 1876-January 1877 Captain Charles T. Curme: January 1877-January 1880 Captain Alfred J. Chatfield: January 1880-October 1882 Captain Edward Kelly: October 1882-October 1885 Captain Harry H. Rawson: October 1885-January 1889 Captain Walter Stewart: January 1889-August 1891 Captain Martin J. Dunlop: August 1891-October 1894 Captain Henry Rose: October 1894-September 1897 Captain William A.D. Acland: September 1897-June 1899 Captain William Marrack: June 1899-January 1902 Captain John Ferris: February 1902-November 1903

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Admiral Superintendent, H. M. Dockyard, Chatham (and Flag Officer, Medway from 1961 until 1983):

Captain George Goldsmith: March 1856-April 1861 Captain Edward G. Fanshawe: April 1861-November 1863 Captain William H. Stewart: November 1863-November 1868 Captain William C. Chamberlain: December 1868-January 1874 Rear-Admiral Charles Fellowes: January 1874-February 1879 Rear-Admiral Thomas Brandreth: February 1879-December 1881 Vice-Admiral George W. Watson: December 1881-April 1886 Rear-Admiral William Codrington: April 1886-November 1887 Rear-Admiral Edward Kelly: November 1887-January 1892 Rear-Admiral G. Digby Morant: January 1892-September 1895 Rear-Admiral Hilary G. Andoe: September 1895-September 1899 Vice-Admiral Swinton C. Holland: September 1899-September 1902 Vice-Admiral Robert W. Craigie: September 1902-September 1905 Rear-Admiral Alvin C. Corry: September 1905-January 1907 Vice-Admiral George W. Giffard: February 1907-August 1909 Rear-Admiral Robert Nelson Ommanney: August 1909-August 1912 Rear-Admiral Charles E.Anson: August 1912-August 1915 Vice-Admiral Arthur D.Ricardo: August 1915-May 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir William E.Goodenough: May 1919-May 1920 Rear-Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker: May 1920-September 1921 Rear-Admiral Edward B.Kiddle: September 1921-December 1923 Rear-Admiral Percy M.R.Royds: December 1923-December 1925 Rear-Admiral Charles P. Beaty-Pownall: December 1925-December 1927 Rear-Admiral Anselan J.B. Stirling: December 1927-October 1931 Vice-Admiral Charles W. Round-Turner: October 1931-October 1935 Vice-Admiral Sir Clinton F. S. Danby: October 1935-October 1942 Admiral Sir John G. Crace: October 1942-July 1946 Vice-Admiral Gervase B. Middleton: July 1946-September 1950 Vice-Admiral Sir Albert L. Poland: September 1950-October 1954 Rear-Admiral George V.M. Dolphin: October 1954-October 1958 Rear-Admiral John Y. Thompson: October 1958-February 1961 Rear-Admiral I.William T. Beloe: February 1961-December 1963 Rear-Admiral Ian L.T.Hogg: December 1963-July 1966 Vice-Admiral Sir W. John Parker: July 1966-September 1969 Rear-Admiral Frederick C.W. Lawson: September 1969-November 1971 Rear-Admiral Colin C.H. Dunlop: November 1971-January 1974 Rear-Admiral Stephen F. Berthon: January 1974-July 1976 109

Rear-Admiral Christopher M. Bevan: July 1976-August 1978 Rear-Admiral Charles B. Williams: August 1978-August 1980 Rear-Admiral George M.K. Brewer: August 1980-August 1982 Rear-Admiral William A. Higgins: August 1982-1983

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Captain of Dockyard, Chatham :

Captain Frank H. Henderson: February 1904-June 1905 Captain Francis G. Kirby: June-September 1905 Captain Thomas Y. Greet: September 1905-July 1907 Captain William de Salis: July 1907-July 1909 Captain Arthur D. Ricardo: July 1909-August 1911 Captain Hubert Grant-Dalton: August 1911-September 1913 Captain Ernest H. Grafton: September 1913-September 1916 Captain Mortimer L’E. Silver: September 1916-October 1919 Captain Charles S. Wills: October 1919-March 1922 Captain Richard Horne: March 1922-February 1923 Captain Ernest W. Leir: February 1923-February 1924 Captain Alfred F. B. Carpenter: February 1924-February 1926 Captain Robert C. Hamilton: February 1926-February 1928 Captain Arthur Kemmis Betty: February 1928-August 1929 Captain Niel O’Neill: August 1929-August 1931 Captain Aubrey T. Tillard: August 1931-October 1932 Captain Algernon R. Smithwick: October 1932-March 1935 Captain Charles G. Stuart: March 1935-May 1937 Captain Edye K. Boddam-Whetham: May 1937-July 1939 Captain Cecil S. Sandford: July 1939-1941 Captain Lawrence F.N. Ommanney: 1941-November 1942 Captain Alban E.T. Tate: November 1942-September 1943 Captain John B. May: September 1943-February 1946 Captain Cyril I. Horton: February-August 1946 Captain Francis B. Lloyd: August 1946-November 1947 Captain Reginald F. Nichols: November 1947-November 1949 Captain Basil Jones: November 1949-October 1951 Captain Richard C. Boyle: October 1951-October 1953 Captain John F. Cochrane: October 1953-October 1955 Captain Roger C. Lewis: October 1955-July 1958 Captain Christopher C. Suther: July 1958-March 1961 Captain Peter G.C. Dickens: March 1961-November 1964 Captain Ian G.H. Garnett: November 1964-June 1966 Captain David V. Morgan: June 1966-May 1968 Captain Sir Edward F.Archdale, Bt.: May 1968-July 1971 Captain Laurence W.H. Taylor: July 1971-May 1974 Captain David C.R. Walters: May 1974-August 1976 Captain Peter J. Shaw: August 1976-April 1979 111

Captain Edward M.C. Walker: April 1979-May 1982 Captain Allan J.B. Laybourne: May 1982-1984

Captain of the Chatham Dockyard Reserve (Medway Steam Reserve until 1891; from 1891 until 1904):

Captain Charles F. Schomberg: January 1860-February 1862 Captain Thomas P. Thompson: February 1862-April 1863 Captain William King-Hall: April 1863-April 1865 Captain George G. Randolph: May 1865-June 1866 Captain George W. Preedy: June-October 1866 Captain the Hon. Arthur A.L.P. Cochrane: October 1866-May 1870 Captain William G. Luard: May 1870-Dcember 1871 Captain Charles Murray-Aynsley: December 1871-January 1875 Captain John C. Soady: January 1875-December 1877 Captain Frederick W. Richards: January-October 1878 Captain Walter J. Hunt-Grubbe: November 1878-November 1881 Captain Lord Walter T. Kerr: November 1881-March 1885 Captain Alexander Buller: March 1885-January 1887 Captain Lord Charles T. Montagu-Douglas- Scott: January 1887-April 1888 Captain Henry F. Stephenson: April 1888-July 1890 Captain Hilary G. Andoe: July 1890-July 1893 Captain Lord Charles W. de la P. Beresford: July 1893-April 1896 Captain Albert B. Jenkings: April 1896-December 1897 Captain George L. Atkinson-Willes: December 1897-December 1900 Captain John Durnford: December 1900-January 1901 Captain Walter H.B. Graham: January 1901-August 1902 Captain Edward H. Bayly: August 1902-February 1904

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Captain of Sheerness Dockyard:

Captain Charles Wise: July 1860-April 1865 Captain William King-Hall: April 1865-March 1869 Captain the Hon. Arthur A.L.P. Cochrane: April 1869-May 1870 Captain William G. Luard: May 1870-January 1875 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald A.C. Foley: January 1875-January 1877 Captain Thomas Brandreth: January 1877-January 1879 Captain Theodore M. Jones: January 1879-January 1883 Captain John O. Hopkins: January-April 1883 Captain William Codrington: April 1883-July 1885 Captain Henry F. Nicholson: July 1885-July 1886 Captain Sir Robert H. More-Molyneux: July 1886-June 1888 Captain Charles G. Fane: June 1888-August 1890 Captain Richard Duckworth-King: August 1890-January 1892 Captain Armand T. Powlett: January 1892-January 1894 Captain John Fellowes: January 1894-January 1895 Captain John C. Burnell: January 1895-January 1898 Captain Andrew K. Bickford: January 1898-June 1899 Captain Reginald F.H. Henderson: June 1899-June 1901 Captain Gerald C. Langley: June 1901-August 1902 Captain Walter H.B. Graham: August 1902-January 1905 Captain Frederick L. Campbell: January 1905-January 1906 Rear-Admiral James Startin: February 1906-May 1907 Captain John Casement: May 1907-July 1908 Captain Robert H. Johnston Stewart: July 1908-December 1909 Captain Henry H. Torlesse: December 1909-December 1911 Rear-Admiral Robert J. Prendergast: December 1911-September 1915 Rear-Admiral Edmund Hyde Smith: September 1915-April 1919 Captain F. Shirley Litchfield-Speer: April 1919-March 1922 Captain Herbert N. Garnett: March 1922-February 1923 Captain Oliver Backhouse: February 1923-February 1925 Captain Frederick C. Fisher: February 1925-April 1927 Captain Dashwood F. Moir: April 1927-April 1929 Captain Benjamin W. Barrow: April 1929-July 1930 Captain Hugh D. Hamilton: July 1930-July 1932 Captain Robert S. MacFarlan: July 1932-July 1934 Captain James V.V. Magrane: July 1934-September 1935 Captain Henry B. Maltby: September 1935-December 1937 Captain Hugh R. Marrack: December 1937-July 1943 113

Rear-Admiral Colin S. Thomson: July 1943-October 1945 Commodore Jack T. Borrett: October 1945-August 1948 Captain Hubert V.P. McClintock: August 1948-September 1950 Captain Villiers N. Surtees: September 1950-September 1953 Captain Sydney J.S. Boord: September 1953-November 1955 Captain Francis R. Main: November 1955-October 1957 Captain Paul M.B. Chavasse: October 1957-March 1960

Admiral Superintendant/Port Admiral, H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth (until 1923 and from 1939 until 1983):

Rear-Admiral Sir Henry H. Bruce: June 1915-April 1920 Vice-Admiral Sir John F.E. Green: April 1920-June 1923 Rear-Admiral Colin Cantlie: September 1939-April 1944 Rear-Admiral Henry C. Bovell: April 1944-April 1947 Vice-Admiral Sir Angus E.M.B. Cunninghame Graham: April 1947-August 1951 Rear-Admiral John H.F. Crombie: August 1951-November 1953 Rear-Admiral Peter Skelton: November 1953-September 1956 Rear-Admiral Peter D.H.R. Pelly: September 1956-November 1957 Rear-Admiral Walter Evershed: November 1957-September 1960 Rear-Admiral Ian G. Aylen: September 1960-September 1963 Rear-Admiral John G. Watson: September 1963-September 1966 Rear-Admiral William T.C. Ridley: September 1966-February 1972 Rear-Admiral Peter White: February 1972-April 1974 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Monk: April 1974-January 1976 Rear-Admiral William T. Pillar: January 1976-November 1977 Rear-Admiral John R.D. Nunn: November 1977-January 1980 Rear-Admiral James E.C. Kennon: January 1980-August 1981 Rear-Admiral John C. Warsop: August 1981-August 1983 Vice-Admiral Robert R. Squires: August-December 1983

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Captain of Dockyard, Rosyth :

Captain William F. Slayter: January 1915-October 1917 Rear-Admiral Charles F. Henderson: October 1917-April 1919 Captain Harry M. K. Betty: April 1919-April 1921 Captain William M. Kerr: April 1921-October 1923 Captain Archibald Cochrane: October 1923-? Captain Philip H. E. Welby-Everard: November 1953-November 1954 Captain Peter N. Buckley: November 1954-February 1957 Captain William W. Stewart-Fitzroy: February 1957-February 1959 Captain Arfor R.E. Bishop: February 1959-February 1961 Captain A. John R. White: February 1961-February 1963 Captain Peter B. Marriott: February 1963-October 1964 Captain George H. Evans: October 1964-May 1966 Captain James S. Launders: May 1966-September 1967 Captain Ernest J.D. Turner: September 1967-June 1968 Captain Michael R. Collins: June 1968-July 1970 Captain Thomas G. Briggs: July 1970-February 1973 Captain David J. Bent: February 1973-September 1974 Captain Peter K.C. Harris: September 1974-April 1976 Captain Frederick N. Buckler: April 1976-May 1978 Captain Robert O. Tordoff: May 1978-January 1981 Captain Harry Mucklow: January 1981-October 1982 Captain William H.H. McLeod: October 1982-October 1985 Captain Anthony H.F. Wilks: October 1985-March 1988

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Captain of Dockyard, Portland(Senior Naval Officer until 1919 and from 1939 until 1945; until 1958):

Rear-Admiral Charles E. Anson: October 1908-June 1911 Captain Owen F. Gillett: June 1911-September 1913 Rear-Admiral Gerald C. A. Marescaux: September 1913-April 1914 Commodore Joseph R. Bridson: April 1914-February 1915 Rear-Admiral Frank E.C. Ryan: February 1915-September 1916 Rear-Admiral Richard M. Harbord: September 1916-November 1917 Rear-Admiral Vivian H.G. Bernard: November 1917-November 1919 Captain James R.P. Hawksley: April 1920-April 1922 Captain Arthur C.S. Hughes D’Aeth: April 1922-March 1923 Captain Humphrey H. Smith: March 1923-May 1925 Captain Charles T. Hardy: May 1925-July 1926 Captain Arthur G. Craufurd: July 1926-January 1928 Captain Leonard L. P. Willan: January 1928-April 1929 Captain Ernest W. Leir: April 1929-April 1931 Captain Hugh S. Shipway: April 1931-July 1932 Captain Arthur M. Lecky: July 1932-May 1933 Captain John H. K. Clegg: May 1933-May 1935 Captain Edward B. Cloete: May 1935-July 1936 Captain James Powell: July 1936-August 1938 Captain Colin S. Thomson: August 1938-September 1940 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Edmund R. Drummond: August 1939-February 1942 Vice-Admiral G.T. Carlisle P. Swabey: February 1942-October 1944 Rear-Admiral Richard J.R. Scott: October 1944-August 1945 Captain Mervyn S. Thomas: August 1945-August 1947 Captain Roderick L.M. Edwards: August 1947-October 1949 Captain Casper S.B. Swinley: October 1949-June 1951 Captain Sydney J.S. Boord: June 1951-June 1953 Captain Geoffrey M. Sladen: June 1953-May 1955 Captain Ronald G. Mills: May 1955-July 1957 Captain Arthur F.P. Lewis: July 1957-December 1958

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Captain of Dockyard, Pembroke (until 1926):

Captain George Ramsay: July 1857-September 1862 Captain William Loring: September 1862-March 1866 Captain Robert Hall: March 1866-March 1871 Captain William Armytage: February 1871-January 1872 Captain Richard W. Courtenay: January 1872-March 1875 Captain Richard Vesey Hamilton: March 1875-October 1877 Captain George H. Parkin: October 1877-October 1882 Captain Alfred J. Chatfield: October 1882-January 1886 Captain Edward Kelly: January 1886-June 1887 Captain G. Digby Morant: June 1887-January 1889 Captain Samuel Long: January 1889-August 1891 Captain Walter Stewart: August 1891-January 1893 Captain Charles C.Penrose Fitzgerald: January 1893-March 1895 Captain William H. Hall: March 1895 Captain Charles J. Balfour: March 1895-October 1896 Captain Burges Watson: October 1896-October 1899 Captain Charles J. Barlow: October 1899-October 1902 Captain Gerald W. Russell: October 1902-October 1904 Captain John Denison: October 1904-October 1906 Rear-Admiral Henry C. Kingsford: October 1906-December 1908 Rear-Admiral Godfrey H.B. Mundy: December 1908-December 1911 Rear-Admiral Alfred E.A. Grant: December 1911-September 1915 Captain Frederick D. Gilpin Brown: September 1915-April 1918 Captain John G. Armstrong: April 1918-February 1920 Captain David Murray Anderson: February 1920-April 1922 Captain the Hon. Arthur B. S. Dutton: April 1922-July 1924 Captain Leonard A.B. Donaldson: July 1924-? 1926

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Captain, Naval Depot/Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth(Commander, Naval Base, Portsmouth from 196 :

Captain Francis C.B. Bridgeman: October 1897-May 1898 Rear-Admiral James L. Hammet: May 1898-April 1900 Captain William des V. Hamilton: April 1900-January 1903 Captain Henry D. Barry: January-November 1903 Commodore Spencer H.M. Login: November 1903-February 1906 Commodore Walter G.Stopford: February-December 1906 Commodore Arthur A.C. Galloway: December 1906-January 1908 Commodore Edward G.Shortland: January 1908-July 1909 Commodore Christopher G.F.M. Cradock: July 1909-October 1910 Commodore Alexander L. Duff: October 1910-October 1911 Commodore John B. Eustace: October 1911-September 1913 Commodore Charles L. Vaughan-Lee: September 1913-December 1914 Rear-Admiral John B. Eustace: December 1914-June 1916 Commodore Henry B. Pelly: June 1916-November 1918 Commodore Arthur Gordon Smith: November 1918-October 1920 Commodore John W.L.McClintock: October 1920-August 1922 Commodore Cyril S. Townsend: August 1922-August 1924 Commodore Oliver E.Leggett: August 1924-July 1926 Commodore Gilbert O.Stephenson: July 1926-July 1928 Commodore Frank F. Rose: July 1928-November 1929 Commodore the Hon. Alexander R. M. Ramsay: November 1929-November 1931 Commodore Hubert E.Dannreuther: November 1931-October 1932 Commodore James F. Somerville: October 1932-May 1934 Commodore Geoffrey Layton: May 1934-February 1936 Commodore Lancelot E. Holland: February 1936-August 1937 Rear-Admiral W.E. Campbell Tait: August 1937-April 1940 Commodore Harold T. C. Walker: April 1940-July 1941 Commodore Ernest R. Archer: July 1941-March 1943 Commodore Humphrey B. Jacomb: March 1943-May 1945 Commodore Geoffrey A. B. Hawkins: May 1945-January 1947 Commodore Angus D. Nicholl: January 1947-May 1948 Commodore Dering P. Evans: May 1948-March 1950 Commodore Robert S. Warne: March 1950-June 1951 Rear-Admiral Malcolm W. St. L. Searle: June 1951-December 1952 Commodore Sir Robert W. Stirling-Hamilton, Bt.: December1952-January 1954 Commodore Charles L.G. Evans: January 1954-January 1956 Commodore John Y. Thompson: January 1956-October 1957 118

Commodore A.A. Fitzroy Talbot: October 1957-September 1959 Commodore Viscount Kelburn: September 1959-May 1961 Commodore Douglas H.R. Bromley: May 1961-June 1963 Commodore Philip G. Sharp: June 1963-April 1965 Commodore Geoffrey A. Henderson: April 1965-November 1966 Commodore Edward H. Lee: November 1966-October 1968 Commodore Edward W. Ellis: October 1968-June 1971 Commodore Cecil J.A. Johnson: June 1971-October 1972 Commodore John S.C. Lea: October 1972-April 1975 Commodore Gerard Hayne: April 1975-April 1977 Commodore Peter I.F. Beeson: April 1977-October 1978 Commodore William E.C. Perkins: October 1978-March 1981 Commodore Michael F. Simpson: March 1981-1983 Commodore David F. Watts: 1983-1984 Commodore Christopher J. Howard: 1984-1987 Commodore John Hall: 1987-1988 Commodore John G. Tolhurst: 1988-November 1989 Commodore David C. Hebron: 1989-April 1992 Commodore Roger J. Lowndes: April 1992-April 1994 Commodore Andrew E. Slater: April 1994-October 1996 Commodore Iain R. Henderson: October 1996-September 1998 Commodore Stephen W. Graham: September 1998-September 2000 Commodore R. Paul Boissier: September 2000-July 2002 Commodore Amjad J. Hussain: July 2002-November 2005 Commodore David G. Steel: November 2005-November 2008 Commodore Robert J. Thompson: November 2008-September 2011 Commodore Anthony D. Radakin: September 2011-October 2012 Commodore Jeremy C. Rigby: October 2012-January 2018 Commodore James D. Higham: January 2018-February 2019 Commodore Jeremy J. Bailey: March 2019-

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Captain, Naval Depot/Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport(Commander, Naval Base, Plymouth from 196 ):

Captain Harry T. Grenfell: October 1898-March 1900 Captain Sir Richard Poore, Bt.: March 1900-December 1902 Rear-Admiral Harry S.F. Niblett: December 1902-February 1905 Commodore William B. Fisher: February 1905-January 1907 Commodore Frederic E.E. Brock: January 1907-April 1908 Commodore Arthur Y. Moggridge: April 1908-August 1909 Commodore Rosslyn E. Wemyss: August 1909-September 1910 Commodore Lionel G. Tufnell: September 1910-January 1911 Commodore Rosslyn E. Wemyss: January-April 1911 Commodore John de M. Hutchison: April 1911-June 1913 Commodore Arthur D. Ricardo: June 1913-April 1914 Commodore T. Dawson L. Sheppard: April-December 1914 Rear-Admiral John de M. Hutchison: December 1914-January 1917 Commodore Charles F. Corbett: January 1917-February 1919 Commodore Edward Reeves: February 1919-July 1921 Commodore William H.D.Boyle: July 1921-October 1923 Commodore Charles W.R.Royds: October 1923-October 1925 Commodore Wilfred Tomkinson: October 1925-October1926 Commodore Charles W. Round-Turner: October 1926-October 1928 Commodore Arthur E.F.Bedford: October 1928-January 1930 Commodore Noel F. Laurence: January 1930-January 1932 Commodore James M. Pipon: January 1932-January 1934 Commodore Richard H. O. Lane-Poole: January 1934- February 1936 Rear-Admiral Richard Bell Davies: February 1936-April 1938 Rear-Admiral Alban T. B. Curteis: April 1938-May 1940 Commodore Victor A. C. Crutchley: May 1940-March 1942 Commodore Lionel C. P. Tudway: March 1942-August 1944 Commodore Robert L. B. Cunliffe: August 1944-January 1946 Commodore Douglas Young-Jamieson: January 1946-January 1947 Commodore Sydney M. Raw: January 1947-June 1949 Commodore P. Sydney Smith: June 1949-January 1951 Commodore Benjamin Bryant: January 1951-January 1953 Commodore John E. H. McBeath: January 1953-December 1954 Commodore Royston H. Wright: January 1955-January 1956 Commodore Charles E. Keys: February 1956-January 1958 Commodore Talbot L. Eddison: January 1958-September 1959 Commodore Isaac W.T. Beloe: September 1959-December 1960 120

Commodore John O.C. Hayes: December 1960-June 1962 Commodore Thomas E.Barlow: June 1962-January 1964 Commodore George C. Leslie: January 1964-September 1965 Commodore Percival E.I. Bailey: September 1965-November 1968 Commodore Jack M. Henry: November 1968-June 1971 Commodore Stephen F. Berthon: June 1971-October 1973 Commodore Robin W. Garson: October 1973-May 1975 Commodore John R. Grindle: May 1975-October 1977 Commodore John H. Carlill: October 1977-February 1980 Commodore William A. Higgins: February 1980-1982

Commodore Richard J. Husk: 1984-April 1986 Commodore Nigel I.C. Kettlewell: April 1986-February 1988 Commodore James Carine: February 1988-March 1989 Commodore Christopher J.S. Craig: March 1989-March 1990 Commodore D.G. Wilson: September 1990-March 1992 Commodore Michael R. Thomas: March 1992-October 1993 Commodore K.A. Johnson: October 1993-1996 Commodore Jonathan A. Burch: 1996-February 1998 Commodore Jonathon Reeve: February 1998-March 2000 Commodore Richard F. Cheadle: March 2000-September 2002 Commodore Andrew D.H. Mathews: September 2002-April 2005 Commodore Simon R. Lister: April 2005-April 2008 Commodore Ian M. Jess: April 2008-August 2010 Commodore Steven R. Dearden: August 2010-July 2012 Commodore Graham T.Little: July 2012-January 2015 Commodore Ian Shipperley: January 2015-July 2018 Commodore Peter Coulson: July 2018-

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Captain, Naval Depot/Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham (until 1961):

Captain Ernest Rice: July 1891-July 1893 Captain Swinton C. Holland: July 1893-July 1896 Captain Robert F. Hammick: July 1896-October 1898 Captain Angus Macleod: October 1898-May 1901 Captain Reginald C. Prothero: May 1901-October 1902 Captain Lewis E. Wintz: October 1902-July 1904 Commodore Frederick G.Stopford: July 1904-May 1907 Commodore Edward E. Bradford: May 1907-December 1908 Commodore Ernest C.T. Troubridge: December 1908-February 1910 Commodore Cecil F. Thursby: February 1910-August 1911 Commodore Seymour E. Erskine: August 1911-April 1913 Commodore Ernest F. A. Gaunt: April 1913-August 1915 Rear-Admiral Seymour E.Erskine: August 1915-July 1918 Commodore Harry L. de E. Skipwith: July 1918-August 1920 Commodore Gerald W.Vivian: August 1920-June 1921 Commodore Louis C.S.Woollcombe: June 1921-May 1922 Commodore Alexander V.Campbell: May 1922-November 1923 Commodore Eric J.A.Fullerton: November 1923-December 1925 Commodore Geoffrey Hopwood: December 1925-December 1927 Commodore Hugh S. Shipway: December 1927-November 1929 Commodore Arthur L. Snagge: November 1929-July 1931 Commodore Andrew B. Cunningham: July 1931-December 1932 Commodore Robert C. Davenport: January 1933-July 1935 Commodore John C. Tovey: January 1935-July 1937 Commodore Stuart S. Bonham-Carter: July 1937-March 1939 Commodore Robert L. Burnett: March 1939-November 1940 Commodore R. S. Gresham Nicholson: November 1940-August 1943 Commodore Angus M. B. Cunninghame Graham: August 1943-January 1945 Commodore Marcel H.A. Kelsey: January 1945-February 1946 Rear-Admiral Basil C. B. Brooke: February 1946-February 1948 Commodore John A.S. Eccles: February 1948-October 1949 Commodore Peter G.L. Cazalet: October 1949-October 1950 Commodore Gerald V. Gladstone: October 1950-May 1952 Commdore Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith: May 1952-November 1953 Commodore Peter L. Collard: November 1953-November 1955 Commodore Hugh C.B. Coleridge: November 1955-May 1957 Commodore John F.D. Bush: May 1957-March 1959 Commodore Lionel W.L. Argles: March 1959-March 1961 122

Commodore, Clyde Submarine Base(from 1967):

Commodore Derrick G. Kent: August 1967-May 1969 Commodore Peter G. La Niece: May 1969-February 1971 Commodore Peter E.C. Berger: February 1971-August 1973 Commodore Anthony J. Cooke: August 1973-October 1975 Commodore Alan J. Leahy: October 1975-May 1978 Commodore Colin N. MacEacharn: May 1978-October 1980 Commodore George M.F. Vallings: October 1980-October 1982 Commodore David H. Morse: October 1982-October 1984 Commodore David Pentreath: October 1984-June 1986 Commodore Patrick B. Rowe: June 1986-December 1988 Commodore Robert N. Woodard: December 1988-June 1990 Commodore David A.J. Blackburn: June 1990-1992 Commodore Stuart M. Tickner: 1992 Commodore John A. Trewby: March 1992-February 1994 Commodore B. Brian Perowne: February 1994-1996 Commodore Frederick G. Thompson: 1996-1998 Commodore Richard J. Lord: 1998–January 2001 Commodore K. John Borley: January 2001–June 2004 Commodore Carolyn J. Stait: June 2004-October 2007 Commodore Christopher J. Hockley: October 2007-January 2011 Commodore Michael P. Wareham: January 2011-September 2013 Commodore Keith A. Beckett: September 2013-October 2014 Commodore A.Mark Adams: October 2014-February 2016 Commodore Mark E. Gayfer: February 2016-June 2018 Commodore Donald J.M. Doull: June 2018-

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Captain, Royal Naval Air Station, Portland(“HMS Osprey”)( from 1959 until 1999; Anti- Submarine Establishment from 1930 until 196 ):

Captain John G. Crace: April 1930-April 1932 Captain Douglas A. Budgen: April 1932-April 1934 Captain Harold E. Morse: April 1934-April 1936 Captain W. Edward Parry: April 1936-January 1938 Captain Alexander C.G. Madden: January 1938-December 1939 Captain Newton J.W. William-Powlett: December 1939-November 1940 Captain Geoffrey M.K. Keble-White: November 1940-January 1943 Captain Richard G. Onslow: January-November 1943 Captain Robert H. Bevan: December 1943-July 1944 Captain Alfred S. Russell: July 1944-May 1945 Captain Robert J. Shaw: May 1945-May 1947 Captain William E. Banks: May 1947-May 1949 Captain Manley L. Power: May 1949-July 1950 Captain Archibald G. Forman: July 1950-June 1952 Captain John B. Frewen: June 1952-April 1954 Captain George I.M. Balfour: April 1954-September 1956 Captain Robert W. Mayo: September 1956-September 1958 Captain George D. Pound: September 1958-May 1961 Captain Gordon T.S. Gray: May 1961-December 1962 Captain Cedric K. Roberts: December 1962-July 1964 Captain Angus Turnbull: July 1964-November 1966 Captain Kenneth Lee-White: November 1966-September 1968 Captain Edgar G. Brown: September 1968-June 1970 Captain Donald B. Morison: June 1970-April 1972 Captain John R.C. Johnston: April 1972-May 1974 Captain Bruce M. Tobey: May 1974-October 1975 Captain David T. McKeown: October 1975-May 1977 Captain Christopher J. Isacke: May 1977-August 1979 Captain Robert Mcqueen: August 1979-March 1982 Captain Charles R.V. Doe: March 1982-October 1983 Captain Anthony N. Wigley: October 1983-December 1984 Captain Robert N. Woodard: December 1984-1986 Captain Christopher J.S. Craig: 1986-March 1989 Captain Robert N.E. Payne: March 1989-February 1991 Captain Alastair B. Ross: February 1991-July 1993 Captain Robert M. Turner: July 1993-1994 Captain John B. Harvey: 1994-199 124

Captain, Royal Naval Air Station, Yeovilton(“HMS Heron”):

Captain Harry S. Murray-Smith: March 1940-May 1942 Captain Mervyn S. Thomas: May 1942-August 1943 Captain E.M. Conolly Abel Smith: August 1943-May 1944 Captain Charles L. Keighley Peach: May 1944-August 1945 Captain John B. Heath: August 1945-February 1947 Captain W. Kaye Edden: February 1947-May 1949 Captain Walter A. Adair: May 1949-January 1951 Captain R.T. Paul: January 1951-May 1952 Captain Eric V. St.G. Morgan: May 1952-September 1953 Captain Alan F. Black: September 1953-July 1955 Captain Henry J.F. Lane: July 1955-January 1958 Captain Desmond B.Law: January 1958-January 1960 Captain William C. Simpson: January 1960-January 1962 Captain Rodney H.P. Carver: January 1962-February 1964 Captain Terence G.V. Percy: February 1964-July 1966 Captain George C. Baldwin: July 1966-May 1968 Captain Cyril J. Cunningham: May 1968-May 1970 Captain Alfred R. Rawbone: May 1970-February 1972 Captain Keith A. Leppard: February 1972-February 1974 Captain Joseph J. Phillips: February 1974-November 1975 Captain Harold J. Abraham: November 1975-October 1977 Captain Brian J. Williams: October 1977-August 1980 Captain Michael J.F. Rawlinson: August 1980-February 1982 Captain Peter J. Williams: February 1982-January 1984 Captain Robert J. Northard: January 1984-February 1986 Captain Rodney P. Warwick: February 1986-February 1988 Captain Colin L. MacGregor: February 1988-1989 Captain Robin F. Shercliffe: 1989-January 1992 Captain Ian D. MacKenzie: January 1992-August 1993 Captain Iain R. Henderson: August 1993-1996 Commodore Scott Lidbetter: 1996-November 1998 Commodore Richard J. Clapp: November 1998-May 2001 Commodore William M. Covington: May 2001-July 2003 Commodore Alan R.C. Bennett: July 2003-November 2005 Commodore Christopher L. Palmer: November 2005-July 2009 Brigadier Mark J.D. Noble: July 2009-March 2011 Commodore Paul A. Chivers: March 2011-November 2012 Commodore R.S. (Jock) Alexander: November 2012-September 2015 125

Commodore Jonathan P. Pentreath: September 2015-April 2017 Commodore Nicolas H.C. Tindal: April 2017-July 2020 Commodore Niall R. Griffin: July 2020-

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Captain, Royal Naval Air Station, Culdrose(“HMS Seahawk”)( from 1947):

Captain Kenneth S. Colquhoun: May 1948-July 1950 Captain Ian R. Sarel: July 1950-July 1952 Captain Henry C.N. Rolfe: July 1952-June 1954 Captain Wolf W.R. Bentinck: June 1954-June 1955 Captain Desmond Vincent-Jones: June 1955-October 1957 Captain Hugh S. Barber: October 1957-September 1959 Captain Charles L.F. Webb: September 1959-July 1961 Captain Josef C. Bartosik: July 1961-May 1963 Captain Peter S. Beale: May 1963-July 1964 Captain Cedric K. Roberts: July 1964-June 1965 Captain Ian G.W. Robertson: June 1965-July 1967 Captain Bernard H. Notley: July 1967-July 1969 Captain Denis H. Frazer: July 1969-September 1971 Captain John B. Robathan: September 1971-October 1973 Captain Cecil E. Price: October 1973-October 1975 Captain Stanley Leonard: October 1975-January 1978 Captain Wilbert A. Tofts: January 1978-April 1980 Captain Roger C. Dimmock: April 1980-May 1982 Captain Michael H.G. Layard: May 1982-January 1984 Captain Walter J. Flindell: January 1984-October 1985 Captain Noel C.H. James: October 1985-1987 Captain Paul J. Bootherstone: 1987-July 1989 Captain Terence S. Taylor: July 1989-January 1992 Captain Christopher L.L. Quarrie: January 1992-May 1993 Captain Peter A. Fish: May 1993-199

Commodore Christopher W. Waite: June 2000-2003 Captain Michael Knowles: 2003-January 2006 Captain Jeremy H. Stanford: January-October 2006 Captain Philip Thicknesse: October 2006-October 2008 Captain Graeme Mackay: October 2008-June 2010 Captain Toby J.L. Williamson: June 2010-November 2012 Captain William N. Entwisle: December 2012-April 2013 Captain Mark D. Garratt: April 2013-December 2014 Captain Adrian P. Orchard: December 2014-August 2016 Captain Daniel P.T. Stembridge: August 2016-

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Captain, Royal Naval Air Station, Brawdy(“HMS Goldcrest”) (from 1952 until 1971):

Captain Richard E.N. Kearney: August 1952-July 1954 Captain Donald C.E.F. Gibson: July 1954-July 1956 Captain Frederick Stovin-Bradford: July 1956-September 1958 Captain H. Richard B. Janvrin: September 1958-July 1959 Captain Edmund S. Carver: July 1959-February 1961 Captain William I. Campbell: January 1963-February 1965 Captain Peter M. Austin: February 1965-March 1967 Captain Arthur B.B. Clark: March 1967-May 1969 Captain Royston L. Eveleigh: May 1969-1970

Captain, Royal Naval Air Station, Lossiemouth(“HMS Fulmar” )(from 1948 until 1972):

Captain Casper John: January-August 1948 Captain Douglas McI. Russell: August 1948-August 1950 Captain Henry J.F. Lane: August 1950-December 1952 Captain John A. Ievers: December 1952-July 1954 Captain Philip D. Gick: July 1954-December 1956 Captain F. Michael A. Torrens-Spence: December 1956-March 1959 Captain Michael F. Fell: March 1959-March 1961 Captain George C. Baldwin: March 1961-December 1962 Captain David W. Kirke: December 1962-October 1965 Captain Douglas G. Parker: October 1965-September 1967 Captain Eric M. Brown: September 1967-February 1970 Captain Joseph D. Honywill: February-March 1970 Captain W. Duncan Lang: March 1970-1972

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(a) FLEETS AND OVERSEAS STATIONS

INDEX:

Advisers, Naval- Australia: page 193 Canada: page 192 India: page 192 Africa Station/Cape of Good Hope/South Atlantic, C.-in-C.: page 157 America and West Indies Station, C.-in-C./Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic: page 155 Atlantic Fleet (1905-1912)- C.-in-C.: page 142 Second-in-Command: page 142 Attaches, Naval- Argentina: page 191 France: page 184 Germany/West Germany: page 186 Greece: page 190 Italy: page 187 Japan: page 185 Netherlands: page 189 Russia: page 188 U.S.A.: page 182 Australia Station, C.-in-C.: page 160 Australia, Commonwealth Naval Board, First Naval Member: page 179 Australian Fleet, Royal, Commanding Officer: page 180 Battlecruiser Fleet, Chief of Staff: page 139 Cape of Good Hope (see Africa Station) Channel Squadron/Channel Fleet- C.-in-C.: page 140 Second-in-Command: page 141 Rear-Admiral: page 142 China Station/Eastern Fleet/Pacific Fleet/Far East Fleet- C.-in-C.: page 151 Second-in-Command, China Station: page 152 Chief of Staff, China Station: page 153 Chief of Staff, Eastern Fleet/Far East Fleet: page 153 Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations and Plans: page 154 129

Captain of the Fleet: page 154 East Indies Station, C.-in-C.: page 159 Eastern Fleet, C.-in-C. (see China Station) Second-in-Command: page 152 Far East Fleet, C.-in-C./Commander (see China Station) Second-in-Command (see Flag Officer, 5 th Cruiser Squadron- page 212) Fleet, The (see Home Fleet) Germany, Flag Officer: page 162 Gibraltar, Flag Officer/Senior Naval Officer.Commander, British Forces: page 163 Chief Staff Officer: page 165 Grand Fleet (see Home Fleet) Home Fleet/Grand Fleet/Atlantic Fleet (1919-1931)/Western Fleet/ The Fleet- C.-in-C./Commander: page 131 Second-in-Command/Commander, Second Division: page 133 Second and Third Fleets, C-in-C.: page 139 Deputy Commander: page 133 Chief of Staff: page 134 Chief of Staff/Commander, Operations (see also Flag Officer, Submarines-page 88): page 136 Chief of Staff, Warfare/Capability: page 135 Devonport Division, Rear-Admiral: page 137 Nore Division, Rear-Admiral: page 137 Portsmouth Division/Reserve Division, Rear-Admiral: page 137 Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations: page 135 Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans: page 136 Assistant Chief of Staff, Warfare: page 136 Captain of the Fleet: page 138 Hong Kong, Commodore: page 177 Indian Navy, Royal, Flag Officer Commanding: page 175 Jamaica/West Indies, Commodore: page 172 Levant, C.in-C/Flag Officer, Middle East/Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf: page 171 Malaya, Flag Officer (see Singapore) Malta, Flag Officer/Admiral Superintendent, H.M. Dockyard: page 167 Chief Staff Officer: page 169 Captain of the Dockyard: page 170

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Mediterranean, Allied Naval Forces/Allied Maritime Command, Southern Europe, Chief of Staff: page 148 Mediterranean Fleet- C.-in-C.: page 145 Second-in-Command: page 147 Rear-Admiral: page 148 Chief of Staff: page 148 Captain of the Fleet: page 150 Middle East, Flag Officer (see Levant) New Zealand Station, Commander: page 180 Northern Europe, Allied Naval Forces, Commander: page 161 Pacific Fleet (see China Station) Pacific Station, C.-in-C.: page 161 Persian Gulf, Senior Naval Officer: page 175 Reserve Fleet, Admiral Commanding: page 143 Devonport Division, Rear-Admiral: page 144 Nore Division, Rear-Admiral: page 144 Portland Division, Rear-Admiral: page 144 Portsmouth Division, Rear-Admiral: page 143 Rosyth Division, Rear-Admiral: page 144 Simonstown, Captain-in-Charge: page 174 Singapore, Captain-in-Charge/Flag Officer, Malaya: page 179 South American Division/South-East Coast of America, Commodore: page 173 South Atlantic (see Africa Station) U.S.A., Admiral, British Joint Services Mission: page 181 West Africa, Flag Officer: page 173 West Indies (see Jamaica) Western Fleet (see Home Fleet) Western Mediterranean, Flag Officer: page 166 Yangtse, Senior Naval Officer: page 176

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Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1919; Atlantic Fleet from 1919 to 1931; Western Fleet from 1967 until 1971; The Fleet from 1971; and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff from 2012 until 2016):

Vice-Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel: October 1902-May 1903 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur K. Wilson: May 1903-December 1904 Vice-Admiral Sir Francis C. B. Bridgeman: March 1907-March 1909 Admiral Sir William H. May: March 1909-March 1911 Admiral Sir Francis C.B. Bridgeman: March-December 1911 Admiral Sir George A. Callaghan: December 1911-August 1914 Admiral Sir John R.Jellicoe: August 1914-December 1916 Admiral of the Fleet Sir David R. Beatty: December 1916-April 1919 Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: April 1919-August 1922 Admiral Sir John De Robeck: August 1922-August 1924 Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver: August 1924-August 1927 Admiral the Hon. Sir Hubert G. Brand: August 1927-April 1929 Admiral Sir A. Ernle M. Chatfield: April 1929-May 1930 Admiral Sir Michael H. Hodges: May 1930-October 1931 Admiral Sir John D. Kelly: October 1931-September 1933 Admiral the Earl of Cork and Orrery: September 1933-August1935 Admiral Sir Roger R. C. Backhouse: August 1935-April 1938 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles M. Forbes: April 1938-December 1940 Admiral Sir John C. Tovey: December 1940-May 1943 Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser: May 1943-June 1944 Admiral Sir Henry M. Moore: June 1944-November 1945 Admiral Sir E.Neville Syfret: November 1945-January 1948 Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: January 1948-January 1950 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip L. Vian: January 1950-June 1952 Admiral Sir George E. Creasy: January 1952-January 1954 Admiral Sir Michael M. Denny: January 1954-January 1956 Admiral Sir John A.S. Eccles: January 1956-January 1958 Admiral Sir William W. Davis: January 1958-July 1960 Admiral Sir Wilfrid J.W. Woods: July 1960-January 1963 Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: January 1963-July 1965 Admiral Sir John B. Frewen: July 1965-October 1967 Admiral Sir John F.D. Bush: October 1967-February 1970 Admiral Sir William D. O’Brien: February 1970-September 1971 Admiral Sir Edward B. Ashmore: September 1971-December 1973 Admiral Sir Terence T. Lewin: December 1973-October 1975 Admiral Sir John D. Treacher: October 1975-March 1977 132

Admiral Sir Henry C. Leach: March 1977-May 1979 Admiral Sir James H.F. Eberle: May 1979-April 1981 Admiral Sir John D.E. Fieldhouse: April 1981-October 1982 Admiral Sir William D.M. Staveley: October 1982-June 1985 Admiral Sir Nicholas J.S. Hunt: June 1985-May 1987 Admiral Sir J. Julian R. Oswald: May 1987-April 1989 Admiral Sir D. Benjamin Bathurst: April 1989-January 1991 Admiral Sir Jock C.K. Slater: January 1991-December 1992 Admiral Sir Hugo M. White: December 1992-1995 Admiral Sir Peter C. Abbott: October 1995-September 1997 Admiral Sir Michael C. Boyce: September 1997-September 1998 Admiral Sir Nigel R. Essenhigh: September 1998-November 2000 Admiral Sir Alan W.J. West: November 2000-September 2002 Admiral Sir Jonathan Band: September 2002-November 2005 Admiral Sir James M. Burnell-Nugent: November 2005-November 2007 Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope: November 2007-June 2009 Admiral Sir Trevor A. Soar: June 2009-January 2012 Admiral Sir George M. Zambellas: January-November 2012 Vice-Admiral Sir Philip A. Jones: November 2012-February 2016 Vice-Admiral Benjamin J. Key: February 2016-March 2019 Vice-Admiral Jeremy P. Kyd: March 2019-

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Second-in-Command,/ Commander, Second Division, Home Fleet/Grand Fleet/Atlantic Fleet :

Rear-Admiral George L. Atkinson-Willes: October 1902-May 1903 Rear-Admiral Edmund S. Poe: May 1903-June 1904 Rear-Admiral Charles J. Barlow: June-December 1904 Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, Bt.: March 1909-August 1910 Vice-Admiral Sir George A. Callaghan: August 1910-December 1911 Vice-Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe: December 1911-December 1912 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Stanley C. J.Colville: June 1912-June 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly: June-December 1914 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: December 1914-December 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden: December 1916-April 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney R. Fremantle: May 1919-May 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir William C.M. Nicholson: May 1921-October 1922 Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: October 1922-October 1924 Vice-Admiral Sir Alban T.B. Curteis: 1941-June 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser: June 1942-June 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry M. Moore: June 1943-June 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick H.G. Dalrymple-Hamilton:June 1944-April 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: April-July 1945 Rear-Admiral Angus E.M.B. Cunninghame Graham:July 1945-October 1946

Deputy Commander, The Fleet (from 1990 until 2012):

Vice-Admiral Roy T. Newman: February 1990-June 1992 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey W.R. Biggs: June 1992-June 1994 Vice-Admiral Sir Jonathan J.R. Tod: June 1994-June 1997 Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy J. Blackham: June 1997-January 1999 Vice-Admiral Sir Fabian M. Malbon: January 1999-May 2001 Vice-Admiral Sir Jonathan Band: May 2001-July 2002 Vice-Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope: July 2002-June 2004 Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy P. McClement: June 2004-October 2006 Vice-Admiral R. Paul Boissier: October 2006-July 2009 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard J. Ibbotson: July 2009-January 2011 Vice-Admiral George M. Zambellas: January-December 2011 Vice-Admiral Philip A. Jones: December 2011-November 2012

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Chief of Staff, Home Fleet :

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Alexander E. Bethell: January 1908-March 1909 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden: August 1914-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Sir Osmond de B.Brock: December 1916-April 1919 Rear-Admiral Michael H.Hodges: April 1919-May 1920 Rear-Admiral Cyril T.M.Fuller: May 1920-August 1922 Rear-Admiral William W. Fisher: August 1922-August 1924 Rear-Admiral Arthur J. Davies: August 1924-October 1927 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Matthew R.Best: October-December 1927 Commodore Geoffrey Blake: December 1927-April 1929 Rear-Admiral William M. James: April 1929-May 1930 Rear-Admiral Ragnar M. Colvin: May 1930-December 1932 Rear-Admiral Dudley B. N. North: December 1932-August 1933 Rear-Admiral Thomas F. P. Calvert: August 1933-August 1935 Rear-Admiral Bertram H. Ramsay: August-December 1936 Rear-Admiral Henry R. Moore: January 1936-April 1938 Rear-Admiral Edward L. S. King: April 1938-June 1940 Vice-Admiral Lancelot E. Holland: June-November 1940 Rear-Admiral E. J. Patrick Brind: December 1940-April 1942 Commodore Michael M. Denny: April 1942-November 1943 Commodore William R. Slayter: November 1943-June 1945 Commodore Dennis M. Lees: June 1945-January 1946 Commodore C.T. Mark Pizey: January-November 1946 Commodore Eric W. Longley-Cook: November 1946-February 1948 Commodore William W. Davis: February 1948-January 1950 Rear-Admiral Cecil C. Hughes-Hallett: January 1950-December 1951 Rear-Admiral George B. H. Fawkes: December 1951-December 1953 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith: December 1953-December 1955 Commodore Walter A. Adair: December 1955-May 1956 Rear-Admiral Thomas V. Briggs: May 1956-January 1958 Rear-Admiral Hector C.D. MacLean: January 1958-August 1959 Rear-Admiral John B. Frewen: August 1959-April 1961 Rear-Admiral William J. Munn: April 1961-May 1963 Rear-Admiral David G. Clutterbuck: May 1963-December 1965 Rear-Admiral Edmund N. Poland: December 1965-December 1967 Rear-Admiral Peter W.B. Ashmore: December 1967-December 1969 Rear-Admiral Ian W. Jamieson: December 1969-October 1971 Vice-Admiral J. Ernle Pope: October 1971-May 1974 Rear-Admiral John O. Roberts: May 1974-April 1976 135

Vice-Admiral Peter E.C. Berger: April 1976-October 1978 Vice-Admiral William D.M. Staveley: October 1978-June 1980 Vice-Admiral Sir David J. Hallifax: June 1980-May 1982 Vice-Admiral Sir Edward R. Anson: May 1982-June 1984 Vice-Admiral Sir John M. Webster: June 1984-November 1986 Rear-Admiral Robin I.T. Hogg: November 1986-December 1987 Rear-Admiral Peter G.V. Dingemans: December 1987-February 1990

Chief of Staff(Warfare), The Fleet(Chief of Staff(Capability) from 2006):

Rear-Admiral Alexander K. Backus: February 2002-June 2003 Rear-Admiral Timothy P. McClement: June 2003-June 2004 Rear-Admiral David G. Snelson: June 2004-2006 Major-General James B. Dutton: April-December 2006 Rear-Admiral Philip L. Wilcocks: January 2007-November 2008 Major-General Garry S. Robison: November 2008-February 2011 Rear-Admiral Peter D. Hudson: February 2011-January 2013 Rear-Admiral Duncan L. Potts: January 2013-September 2014 Rear-Admiral James A. Morse: September 2014-May 2016 Rear-Admiral Paul M. Bennett: May 2016-November 2017 Major-General Robert A. Magowan: November 2017-November 2018 Rear-Admiral Hugh D. Beard: November 2018-

Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations (Maritime Capability from 2012):

Captain James F.R. Weir: February 1967-February 1969 Captain Anthony K. Dodds: February 1969-May 1971 Captain Alastair F.C. Wemyss: May 1971-November 1972 Captain John L. Ommanney: November 1972-February 1975 Captain Peter Cobb: February 1975-January 1977 Captain James B. Wallace: January 1977-March 1978 Captain Vincent M. Howard: March 1978-April 1980 Captain John B.L. Watson: April 1980-1982 Captain James F.T.G. Salt: 1983-1985

Commodore Nicholas R. Lambert: 2009-August 2010

Commodore James D. Morley: October 2014-April 2017 Brigadier James A.J. Morris: April 2017-January 2019 Commodore Michael B. Knott: January 2019- 136

Commander, Operations (prior to 2015 post combined with Rear-Admiral, Submarines):

Rear-Admiral Matthew J. Parr: May 2013-October 2015 Rear-Admiral Robert K. Tarrant: October 2015-October 2017 Rear-Admiral Paul V. Halton: October 2017-November 2019 Rear-Admiral Simon P. Asquith: November 2019-

Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans :

Captain Stanley Leonard: June 1970-January 1972 Captain James W. Kelly: January 1972-December 1973 Captain Ian J. Brown: December 1973-March 1977 Captain Ian W. Powe: March 1977-March 1979 Captain Alan A. Hensher: March 1979-February 1981 Captain Raymond H. Fox: February 1981-September 1983 Captain William J. Davis: September 1983-1985 Commodore Simon B. Charlier: November 2006-February 2008 Commodore Adrian S. Bell: February 2008-February 2009 Commodore Mark R. Darlington: February 2009-April 2011 Commodore Malcolm C. Cree: July 2011-October 2013 Commodore David Dutton: November 2013-April 2016 Brigadier David L. Kassapian: April 2016-November 2017 Commodore Philip J. Hally: November 2017-May 2019 Commodore Robert C. Vitali: May-August 2019 Brigadier Richard J. Read: August 2019-

Assistant Chief of Staff, Warfare :

Captain Patrick J. Symons: November 1973-March 1976 Captain Brian G. Young: March 1976-August 1978 Captain Colin A.F. Buchanan: August 1978-February 1981 Captain Jeremy B.D. Read: February 1981-October 1982 Captain David Hart Dyke: October 1982-1985 Commodore Jonathan M. Handley: February-December 2009

Commodore Christopher M. Richards: August 2010-September 2013 Commodore Guy A. Robinson: September 2013-February 2015 Commodore Philip D. Warwick: March 2015-July 2017 Commodore Michael J. Wainhouse: July 2017-November 2019 Commodore Robert C. Vitali: November 2019- 137

Rear-Admiral, Reserve Division/Home Fleet, Portsmouth Division :

Rear-Admiral Robert L. Groome: January-November 1905 Rear-Admiral Charles H. Cross: November 1905-November 1906 Rear-Admiral Spencer H.M. Login: November 1906-November 1907 Rear-Admiral Arthur M. Farquhar: November 1907-November 1908 Rear-Admiral Paul W. Bush: November 1908-November 1909 Rear-Admiral Frederic E.E. Brock: November 1909-November 1910 Rear-Admiral Arthur H. Limpus: November 1910-November 1911 Rear-Admiral Arthur Y. Moggridge: November 1911-November 1912 Rear-Admiral Reginald G.O. Tupper: November 1912-November 1913 Rear-Admiral Bernard Currey: November 1913-August 1914

Devonport Division :

Rear-Admiral Charles G. Robinson: January 1905-January 1906 Rear-Admiral Edward H. Gamble: January 1906-January 1907 Rear-Admiral Harry S. F. Niblett: January 1907-January 1908 Rear-Admiral John Denison: January 1908-January 1909 Rear-Admiral Cecil Burney: January 1909-January 1910 Rear-Admiral Arthur A.C. Galloway: January 1910-January 1911 Rear-Admiral Richard B. Farquhar: January 1911-January 1912 Rear-Admiral Henry Loftus Tottenham: January 1912-January 1913 Rear-Admiral Arthur H. Christian: January 1913-May 1914 Rear-Admiral Archibald P. Stoddart: May-August 1914

Nore Division :

Rear-Admiral Walter H.B. Graham: January 1905-January 1906 Rear-Admiral Charles H. Adair: January 1906-January 1907 Rear-Admiral Frank Finnis: January 1907-January 1908 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Stanley J.C. Colville: January 1908-January 1909 Rear-Admiral Charles J. Briggs: January-March 1909 Rear-Admiral Charles Dundas of Dundas: November 1911-December 1913 Rear-Admiral Stuart Nicholson: December 1913-August 1914

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Captain of the Fleet, Home Fleet :

Captain Charles E. Madden: August 1907-December 1908 Commodore the Hon. Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: December 1909-March 1911 Commodore William O. Boothby: March 1911-May 1913 Commodore Allan F.Everett: May 1913-June 1915 Commodore Lionel Halsey: June 1915-December 1916 Captain the Hon. Hubert G. Brand: December 1916-April 1919 Captain Henry W.Parker: April 1919-August 1921 Captain Eric J.A.Fullerton: August 1921-August 1923 Captain Francis A.Marten: August 1923-August 1925 Captain Thomas N. James: August 1925-August 1927 Captain Robert A. Hornell: August-October 1927 Captain Sidney J. Meyrick: October 1927-December 1928 Captain Robert C.Davenport: December 1928-April 1930 Captain Alfred E. Evans: April 1930-August 1933 Captain Ronald W.Oldham: August 1933-August 1935 Captain Alban T. B. Curteis: August 1935-April 1938 Captain Douglas B. Fisher: April 1938-March 1940 Captain Harold R. G. Kinahan: March 1940-January 1942 Captain E. Desmond B. McCarthy: January 1942-April 1943 Captain Alex C. Chapman: June 1943-July 1944 Captain Peveril B.R.William-Powlett: July 1944-May 1945 Captain Charles A.E. Stanfield: ? 1946-March 1948 Captain Charles F.W. Norris: March 1948-April 1950 Captain Hilary W. Biggs: April 1950-April 1952 Captain Wilfred G. Brittain: April 1952-March 1954 Captain Bertram W. Taylor: March 1954-March 1957 Captain Viscount Kelburn: March 1957-April 1959 Captain Bryan C. Durant: April 1959-November 1960 Captain Philip G. Sharp: November 1960-June 1962 Captain John S. Stevens: June 1962-May 1963 Captain Edward L. Cook: May 1963-September 1965 Captain J. Anthony R. Troup: September 1965-July 1966 Captain Frederick W. Hayden: July 1966-July 1968 Captain Richard E. Roe: July 1968-January 1970 Captain Roderick D. Macdonald: January 1970-February 1972 Captain Michael W.G. Fawcett: February-September 1972 Captain Hugh P. Janion: September 1972-November 1973 Captain Thomas H.E. Baird: November 1973-March 1976 139

Captain Stephen A. Stuart: March 1976-August 1978 Captain Robert W.F. Gerken: August 1978-May 1981 Captain Thomas G.A. Ram: May 1981-October 1983 Captain Peter F. Grenier: October 1983-October 1985 Captain David S. Dobson: October 1985-1988

Captain Paul K. Haddacks: April 1991-1994

Chief of Staff, Battlecruiser Fleet :

Captain Rudolf W. Bentinck: February 1915-June 1916 Captain the Hon. Hubert G. Brand: June-December 1916 Captain Edward H. Heaton-Ellis: December 1916-August 1917 Captain Hugh F. P. Sinclair: August 1917-December 1918 Captain William H.D. Boyle: December 1918-March 1919

Commander, 2 nd and 3 rd Fleets, Home Fleets :

Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton: December 1911-December 1913 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: December 1913-August 1914

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Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet(Channel Squadron until 1903; and from 1914 to 1915)

Vice-Admiral Sir Charles H. Fremantle: July 1858-October 1860 Rear-Admiral Robert F. Stopford: October 1860-January 1861 Rear-Admiral Robert Smart: January 1861-April 1863 Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres: April 1863-June 1866 Rear-Admiral Hastings R.H. Yelverton: June 1866-May 1867 Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden: May 1867-December 1868 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas M.C. Symonds: December 1868-July 1870 Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings R. H. Yelverton: July-October 1870 Vice-Admiral George G. Wellesley: October 1870-September 1871 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey T. Phipps Hornby: September 1871-October 1874 Vice-Admiral Sir F. Beauchamp S. Seymour: October 1874-November 1877 Vice-Admiral Lord John Hay: November 1877-December 1879 Vice-Admiral Arthur W.A. Hood: December 1879-December 1881 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Henry C. Glyn: December 1881-April 1882 (temporary) Vice-Admiral Sir William M. Dowell: April 1882-December 1883 Vice-Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh: December 1883-December 1884 Admiral Algernon F.R. de Horsey: December 1884-May 1885 Vice-Admiral Charles Fellowes: May 1885-March 1886 Vice-Admiral Sir William N.W.Hewett: March 1886-April 1888 Vice-Admiral Sir John K.E. Baird: April 1888-May 1890 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: May 1890-May 1892 Vice-Admiral Henry Fairfax: May 1892-May 1895 Vice-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: May 1895-June 1897 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F. Stephenson: June 1897-December 1898 Vice-Admiral Sir Harry H. Rawson: December 1898-April 1901 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur K. Wilson: April 1901-April 1903 Vice-Admiral Lord Charles W. De La P. Beresford: April 1903-December 1904 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur K. Wilson: December 1904-March 1907 Admiral Lord Charles W. De La P. Beresford: March 1907-March 1909 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: August-December 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly: December 1914-January 1915 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E. Bethell: January-June 1915

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Second-in-Command, Channel Squadron/Fleet :

Rear-Admiral Alfred P. Ryder: May 1868-October 1869 Rear-Admiral Henry Chads: October 1869-October 1870 Rear-Admiral Arthur P. Eardley-Wilmot: October 1870-September 1871 Rear-Admiral Frederick A. Campbell: September 1871-May 1872 Rear-Admiral Reginald J.J.G. Macdonald: May 1872-June 1873 Rear-Admiral George Hancock: October 1873-January 1875 Rear-Admiral Lord John Hay: January 1875-January 1876 Rear-Admiral Augustus Phillimore: January 1876-May 1877 Rear-Admiral William M. Dowell: May 1877-June 1878 Rear-Admiral Henry Boys: June 1878-June 1879 Rear-Admiral Charles L.D. Waddilove: June 1879-June 1880 Rear-Admiral Leveson E.H. Somerset: June 1880-June 1881 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Henry C. Glyn: June 1881-October 1882 Rear-Admiral Sir Francis W. Sullivan: October 1882-April 1883 Rear-Admiral John C. Wilson: April 1883-August 1884 Rear-Admiral William H. Whyte: August 1884-July 1885 Rear-Admiral Algernon C.F. Heneage: July 1885-August 1886 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Edmund R. Fremantle: August 1886-August 1887 Rear-Admiral Charles J. Rowley: August 1887-September 1888 Rear-Admiral St.George C. D’Arcy-Irvine: September 1888-September 1889 Rear-Admiral Richard E. Tracey: September 1889-September 1890 Rear-Admiral Loftus F. Jones: September 1890-September 1891 Rear-Admiral Edward S. Adeane: September 1891-September 1892 Rear-Admiral Edward H. Seymour: September 1892-April 1894 Rear-Admiral Alfred T. Dale: April 1894-May 1895 Rear-Admiral Arthur H. Alington: May 1895-May 1896 Rear-Admiral Armand T.Powlett: May 1896-May 1897 Rear-Admiral John Fellowes: May 1897-June 1898 Rear-Admiral John Brackenbury: June 1898-June 1899 Rear-Admiral Arthur D. Fanshawe: June 1899-June 1900 Rear-Admiral Albert B. Jenkings: June 1900-June 1901 Rear-Admiral Sir William A. Dyke Acland, Bt.: June 1901-June 1902 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe: June 1902-June 1903 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Hedworth Lambton: June 1903-June 1904 Rear-Admiral Francis C. B. Bridgeman: June-December 1904 Rear-Admiral Charles J. Barlow: December 1904-May 1905 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur W. Moore: May-December 1905 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Assheton G. Curzon-Howe: December 1905-February 1907 142

Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald N. Custance: February 1907-June 1908 Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, Bt.: June 1908-March 1909

Rear-Admiral, Channel Fleet :

Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Bt.: February-November 1905 Rear-Admiral Robert L. Groome: November 1905-November 1906 Rear-Admiral George A. Callaghan: November 1906-April 1907 Rear-Admiral Robert S. Lowry: April-October 1907 Rear-Admiral Francis J. Foley: October 1907-October 1908 Rear-Admiral James Startin: October 1908-March 1909

Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet(from 1905 until 1912):

Vice-Admiral Lord Charles W. De La P. Beresford: December 1904-March 1905 Vice-Admiral Sir William H. May: March 1905-February 1907 Vice-Admiral Sir Assheton G. Curzon-Howe: February 1907-June 1908 Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: June 1908-December 1910 Vice-Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe: December 1910-December 1911 Vice-Admiral Cecil Burney: December 1911-April 1912

Second-in-Command, Atlantic Fleet :

Rear-Admiral Francis C.B.Bridgeman: December 1904-August 1905 Rear-Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, Bt.: August 1905-August 1906 Rear-Admiral George le C. Egerton: August 1906-August 1907 Rear-Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe: August 1907-August 1908 Rear-Admiral William B. Fisher: August 1908-August 1909 Rear-Admiral Sir Colin R. Keppel: August 1909-August 1910 Rear-Admiral Sackville H. Carden: August 1910-August 1911 Rear-Admiral Christopher G. F. M. Cradock: August 1911-April 1912

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Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet(until 1959):

Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F.Oliver: November 1919-September 1920 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard F. Phillimore: September 1920-May 1922 Rear-Admiral Edmond Hyde Parker: May-October 1922 Vice-Admiral Sir Douglas R. L. Nicholson: October 1922-October 1923 Vice-Admiral Sir William E. Goodenough: October 1923-March 1924 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Victor A. Stanley: March 1924-March 1926 Vice-Admiral Sir Rudolf W. Bentinck: March-October 1926 Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh D. R. Watson: October 1926-December 1928 Vice-Admiral Sir William H. D. Boyle: December 1928- April 1929 Vice-Admiral Percival H. Hall-Thompson: April 1929-April 1930 Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Larken: April 1930-April 1932 Vice-Admiral William M. Kerr: April 1932-April 1934 Vice-Admiral Edward A. Astley-Rushton: April 1934-July 1935 Vice-Admiral Sir Gerald L. C. Dickens: July 1935-July 1937 Vice-Admiral Sir Max K. Horton: July 1937-September 1939 Rear-Admiral Charles F. Harris: January 1944-September 1945 Rear-Admiral Leslie H. Ashmore: September 1945-September 1947 Rear-Admiral Reginald M. Servaes: September 1947-August 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir A. Robin M. Bridge: August 1948-January 1951 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry W.U. McCall: January 1951-July 1953 Vice-Admiral Ian M. R. Campbell: July 1953-April 1954 Vice-Admiral John W.M. Eaton: April 1954-September 1955 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter G. L. Cazalet: September 1955-December 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard G. Onslow: December 1956-January 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir Guy B. Sayer: January 1958-January 1959 Rear-Admiral John Grant: January 1959-December 1960

Rear-Admiral, Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth :

Rear-Admiral Edward F. Bruen: February-April 1919 Rear-Admiral Cole C. Fowler: April 1919-April 1920 Rear-Admiral Clement Greatorex: April 1920-October 1921 Rear-Admiral Edmond Hyde Parker: October 1921-May 1922

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Rear-Admiral, Reserve Fleet, Devonport :

Rear-Admiral Maurice Woollcombe: April 1919-April 1920 Rear-Admiral Philip H. Colomb: April 1920-April 1921 Rear-Admiral Charles D. Johnson: April 1921-May 1922

Rear-Admiral, Reserve Fleet,The Nore :

Rear-Admiral Henry L. Mawbey: March 1919-March 1920 Rear-Admiral Vivian H.G. Bernard: March 1920-March 1921 Rear-Admiral William J.S. Alderson: March 1921-May 1922

Rear-Admiral, Reserve Fleet, Rosyth :

Rear-Admiral Charles F. Corbett: May 1919-May 1920 Rear-Admiral Crawford Maclachlan: May 1920-May 1921 Rear-Admiral Charles B. Miller: May 1921-May 1922

Rear-Admiral, Reserve Fleet, Portland :

Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas R.L. Nicholson: November 1919-March 1920

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Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet (until 1967):

Vice-Admiral Sir William F. Martin: April 1860-April 1863 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Smart: April 1863-April 1866 Vice-Admiral Lord Clarence E. Paget: April 1866-April 1869 Admiral Sir Alexander Milne: April 1869-October 1870 Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings R. H. Yelverton: October 1870-January 1874 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir James R. Drummond: January 1874-January 1877 Admiral Sir Geoffrey T. Phipps Hornby: January 1877-February 1880 Admiral Lord Alcester: February 1880-February 1883 Admiral Lord John Hay: February 1883-February 1886 Admiral Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh: February 1886-March 1889 Admiral Sir Anthony H. Hoskins: March 1889-August 1891 Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon: August 1891-June 1893 Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: June 1893-November 1896 Admiral Sir John O. Hopkins: November 1896-July 1899 Admiral Sir John A. Fisher: July 1899-June 1902 Admiral Sir Compton E. Domvile: June 1902-June 1905 Admiral Lord Charles W.De la P. Beresford: June 1905-February 1907 Admiral Sir Charles C.Drury: March 1907-November 1908 Admiral the Hon. Sir Assheton G.Curzon-Howe: November 1908-April 1910 Admiral Sir Edmund S. Poe: April 1910-June 1912 Admiral Sir Arcbibald Berkeley Milne, Bt.: June 1912-August 1914 Admiral the Hon. Sir Somerset A.Gough-Calthorpe: August 1917-May 1919 Admiral Sir John De Robeck, Bt.: July 1919-May 1922 Admiral Sir Osmond de B.Brock: May 1922-June 1925 Admiral Sir Roger J.B.Keyes, Bt.: June 1925-June 1928 Admiral Sir Frederick L.Field: June 1928-May 1930 Admiral Sir A.Ernle M. Chatfield: May 1930-October 1932 Admiral Sir William W.Fisher: October1932-March 1936 Admiral Sir A.Dudley P.R.Pound: March 1936-May 1939 Admiral Sir Andrew B.Cunningham: June 1939-March 1942 Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood: April 1942-February 1943 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham: February-October 1943 Admiral Sir John H.D. Cunningham: October 1943-February1946 Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis: April 1946-May 1948 Admiral Sir Arthur J. Power: May 1948-May 1950 Admiral Sir John H. Edelsten: May 1950-May 1952 Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma: May 1952-December 1954 Admiral Sir Guy Grantham: December 1954-January 1957 146

Admiral Sir Ralph A.B. Edwards: January-November 1957 Admiral Sir Charles E. Lambe: November 1957-February 1959 Admiral Sir Alexander N.C. Bingley: February 1959-June 1961 Admiral Sir Deric D.E. Holland-Martin: June 1961-February 1964 Admiral Sir John G. Hamilton: February 1964-June 1967

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Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet :

Rear-Admiral Sydney C. Dacres: December 1861-April 1863 Rear-Admiral Hastings R.H. Yelverton: April 1863-April 1865 Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper-Key: May 1870-August 1872 Vice-Admiral Edward A. Inglefield: August 1872-December 1876 Rear-Admiral Edward B. Rice: May 1876-July 1877 Rear-Admiral Sir John E. Commerell: July 1877-1878 Rear-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: April 1890-April 1892 Rear-Admiral Albert Hastings Markham: April 1892-April 1894 Rear-Admiral Compton E. Domvile: April 1894-May 1896 Rear-Admiral Robert H. Harris: May 1896-February 1898 Rear-Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel: February 1898-February 1900 Rear-Admiral Lord Charles W. De la P. Beresford: February 1900-January 1902 Rear-Admiral Burges Watson: January-September 1902 Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald N. Custance: November 1902-November 1904 Vice-Admiral Sir Harry T. Grenfell: November 1904-February 1906 Rear-Admiral Francis C. B. Bridgeman: March 1906-February 1907 Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: February 1907-November 1908 Rear-Admiral Sir George A. Callaghan: November 1908-October 1910 Rear-Admiral T. Martyn Jerram: October 1910-May 1912 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: June-October 1913 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour: January 1919-September 1920 Rear-Admiral Richard Webb: September 1920-September 1922 Rear-Admiral John D.Kelly: September 1922-August 1923 Rear-Admiral Hugh D. R. Watson: August 1923-April 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael H. Hodges: April 1925-May 1927 Vice-Admiral Sir John D. Kelly: May 1927-April 1929 Vice-Admiral W. A. Howard Kelly: April 1929-October 1930 Vice-Admiral Sir Wiliam W.Fisher: October 1930-April 1932 Vice-Admiral Sir Roger R.C. Backhouse: April 1932-May 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles M. Forbes: May 1934-August 1936 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake: August 1936-July 1937 Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham: July 1937-August 1938 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Layton: August 1938-November 1939 Vice-Admiral John C. Tovey: July-October 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: November 1940-July 1942 (see Flag Officer (Air), Mediterranean Fleet: page 205): 1947-1958

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Rear-Admiral, Mediterranean Fleet :

Rear-Admiral William des V. Hamilton: November 1903-November 1904 Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Bt.: November 1904-February 1905

Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Fleet :

Captain Francis C. B. Bridgeman: October 1893-December 1894 Captain William H. May: January 1895-November 1896 Captain William des V. Hamilton: November 1896-July 1899 Captain George F. King-Hall: March 1900-May 1902 Captain the Hon. Stanley J.C. Colville: May 1902-May 1905 Captain F.C. Doveton Sturdee: May 1905-March 1907 Captain Ernest C. T. Troubridge: March 1907-October 1908 Captain John S. Luard: October 1908-March 1909 Captain John de M. Hutchison: March 1909-April 1910 Captain Bernard Currey: April 1910-March 1911 Captain Stuart Nicholson: March 1911-June 1912 Commodore Richard F. Phillimore: June 1912-August 1914 Commodore Rudolf M. Burmester: August 1917-August 1919 Rear-Admiral William W.Fisher: August 1919-May 1922 Commodore Barry E.Domvile: May 1922-May 1925 Rear-Admiral A.Dudley P.R.Pound: May 1925-December 1927 Rear-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson: December 1927-May 1928 Rear-Admiral John K. im Thurn: May 1928-May 1930 Rear-Admiral William M. James: May 1930-April 1931 Rear-Admiral Sidney R. Bailey: April 1931-October 1932 Rear-Admiral Arthur E.F.Bedford: October 1932-June 1934 Rear-Admiral Robert H. T. Raikes: June 1934-October 1935 Admiral Sir A.Dudley P.R. Pound: October 1935-May 1936 Rear-Admiral G. Frederick B. Edward-Collins: May 1936-April 1938 Rear-Admiral Bruce A. Fraser: April 1938-February 1939 Rear-Admiral Algernon U. Willis: February 1939-March 1941 Rear-Admiral John H. Edelsten: March 1941-December 1942 Commodore John G. L. Dundas: December 1942-February1943 Commodore Royer M. Dick: February-November 1943 Rear-Admiral John G. L. Dundas: November 1943-August 1944 Rear-Admiral Herbert A. Packer: August 1944-March 1946 Rear-Admiral Guy Grantham: March 1946-March 1948 149

Rear-Admiral H. Geoffrey Norman: March 1948-April 1950 Commodore Thomas M. Brownrigg: April 1950-May 1952 Rear-Admiral Manley L. Power: May 1952-November 1953 Commodore Wilfrid J.W. Woods: November 1953-September 1955 Commodore Desmond P. Dreyer: September 1955-July 1957 Rear-Admiral Christopher D. Bonham-Carter: July 1957-May 1959 Rear-Admiral Joseph C.C. Henley: May 1959-October 1961 Commodore Patrick U. Bayly: October 1961-1963 Commodore Herbert J. Lee: March 1963-July 1965 Commodore David B. N. Mellis: July 1965-1967

Chief of Staff, Allied Naval Forces, Mediterranean(Chief of Staff, Allied Maritime Command, Southern Europe from 2004 until 2013):

Vice-Admiral Sir Peter G.L. Cazalet: February 1953-July 1955 Vice-Admiral Sir Ballin I. Robertshaw: July 1955-January 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir St. John R. J. Tyrwhitt, Bt.: January 1958-October 1959 Vice-Admiral Sir Hector C.D. MacLean: October 1959-June 1962 Vice-Admiral Sir Antony B. Cole: June 1962-June 1965 Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell: June 1965-October 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick U. Bayly: October 1967-March 1970 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter W.B. Ashmore: March 1970-July 1972 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael F. Fell: July 1972-July 1974 Vice-Admiral Sir J. Ernle Pope: July 1974-July 1976 Vice-Admiral Sir Roderick D. Macdonald: July 1976-February 1979 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter W. Buchanan: February 1979-January 1982 Vice-Admiral Sir John F. Cadell: January 1982-March 1985 Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick J. Symons: March 1985-June 1988 Vice-Admiral Sir Norman R.D. King: June 1988-February 1991 Vice-Admiral Sir David S. Dobson: February 1991-January 1994 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael A.C. Moore: January 1994-September 1997 Vice-Admiral David A.J. Blackburn: September 1997-October 1999 Rear-Admiral R. John Lippiett: October 1999-January 2002 Rear-Admiral Robert P. Stevens: January 2002-July 2005 Rear-Admiral Richard D. Leaman: July 2005-June 2007 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Rix: June 2007-July 2009 Rear-Admiral Bruce N.B. Williams: July 2009-February 2011 Rear-Admiral Jonathan S. Westbrook: February 2011-March 2013

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Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean Fleet :

Captain Alexander V.Campbell: September 1919-July 1921 Captain Frank Larken: July 1921-June 1922 Captain Charles J.C.Little: June 1922-August 1924 Captain Theodore J. Hallett: August 1924-September 1926 Captain Arthur E.F.Bedford: September 1926-August 1928 Captain Stephen D.Tillard: August 1928-August 1930 Captain Lachlan D. I. MacKinnon: August 1930-August 1932 Captain St.Aubyn B.Wake: August 1932-July 1933 Captain William J. Whitworth: July 1933-December 1935 Captain Richard J. R. Scott: December 1935-March 1938 Captain Charles E.Hotham: March 1938-February 1940 Captain Richard Shelley: February 1940-June 1942 Captain Philip K. Enright: August 1942-January 1943 Captain Eric W. Longley-Cook: January-December 1943 Captain George F. Stevens-Guille: December 1943-May 1945 Captain Gilbert R. Waymouth: May 1945-December 1946 Captain Gerald V. Gladstone: December 1946-March 1949 Captain John G.T. Inglis: March 1949-April 1950 Captain Ben J. Fisher: April 1950-May 1953 Captain Michael Everard: May 1953-March 1955 Captain Arthur F.P. Lewis: March 1955-April 1957 Captain Albert H.F. Hunt: April 1957-July 1959 Captain Peter N. Buckley: July 1959-March 1962 Captain Robin A. Begg: March 1962-February 1964 Captain John D. Trythall: February 1964-January 1965 Captain Tempest Hay: January 1965-1967

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Commander-in-Chief, China Station (until 1941; East Indies and China until 1865; Eastern Fleet from 1941 until 1944; Pacific Fleet from 1944 until 1946; Far Eastern Fleet from 1946 until 1971) :

Rear-Admiral Sir James Hope: January 1859-February 1862 Rear-Admiral Augustus L. Kuper: February 1862-February 1864 Rear-Admiral George St.V. King: February 1864-January 1867 Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel: January 1867-July 1869 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett: July 1869-August 1871 Rear-Admiral Sir Charles F. A. Shadwell: August 1871-August 1874 Admiral Alfred P. Ryder: August 1874-August 1877 Admiral Charles F. Hillyar: August 1877-September 1878 Admiral Robert Coote: September 1878-January 1881 Vice-Adamiral George O. Willes: January 1881-January 1884 Admiral Sir William M. Dowell: January 1884-September 1885 Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton: September 1885-December 1887 Vice-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon: December 1887-November 1890 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards: November 1890-February 1892 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund R. Fremantle: February 1892-May 1895 Admiral Sir Alexander Buller: May 1895-February 1898 Admiral Sir Edward H.Seymour: February 1898-June 1901 Admiral Sir Cyprian A.G.Bridge: June 1901-March 1904 Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel: March 1904-March 1906 Admiral Sir Arthur W. Moore: March 1906-March 1908 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Hedworth Lambton: March 1908-March 1910 Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred L.Winsloe: March 1910-March 1913 Vice-Admiral Sir T.H.Martyn Jerram: March 1913-November 1915 Vice-Admiral Sir W.Lowther Grant: November 1915-June 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick C.T. Tudor: June 1917-November 1919 Admiral Sir Alexander L. Duff: November 1919-November 1922 Admiral Sir Arthur C. Leveson: November 1922-September 1924 Vice-Admiral Sir Allan F. Everett: September 1924-June 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: June 1925-January 1927 Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bt.: January 1927-February 1929 Admiral Sir Arthur K. Waistell: February 1929-December 1930 Admiral Sir W. A. Howard Kelly: December 1930-March 1933 Admiral Sir Frederic C. Dreyer: March 1933-January 1936 Admiral Sir Charles J. C. Little: January 1936-February 1938 Admiral Sir Percy L.H. Noble: February 1938-September 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton: September 1940-December 1941 152

Admiral Sir Tom S.V. Phillips: December 1941 Admiral Sir James F. Somerville: February 1942-August 1944 Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser: August 1944-June 1946 Admiral Sir Denis W. Boyd: June 1946-January 1949 Admiral Sir E.J. Patrick Brind: January 1949-February 1951 Admiral the Hon. Sir Guy H.E.Russell: February 1951-March 1953 Admiral Sir Charles E. Lambe: March 1953-April 1955 Admiral Sir Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff: April 1955-October 1957 Admiral Sir Gerald V. Gladstone: October 1957-April 1960 Admiral Sir J. David Luce: April 1960-November 1962 Vice-Admiral Sir Desmond P. Dreyer: November 1962-January 1965 Vice-Admiral Sir Frank R. Twiss: January 1965-June 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir William D. O’Brien: June 1967-September 1969 Vice-Admiral L. Derek Empson: September 1969-April 1971 Rear-Admiral J. Anthony R. Troup: April-November 1971

Second-in-Command, China Station (until 1905):

Rear-Admiral Charles L.Oxley: May 1896-December 1897 Rear-Admiral Charles C. Penrose-Fitzgerald: December 1897-December 1899 Rear-Admiral Sir James A.T. Bruce: December 1899-November 1901 Rear-Admiral Harry T. Grenfell: November 1901-August 1903 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe: August 1903-August 1905

Second-in-Command, Eastern Fleet/Pacific Fleet:

Vice-Admiral Algernon U. Willis: February 1942-February 1943 Rear-Admiral William G. Tennant: February-October 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur J. Power: December 1943-November 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir H. Bernard H. Rawlings: November 1944-August 1945

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Chief of Staff, China Station (until 1941):

Captain Reginald G.H.Henderson: July 1919-June 1921 Captain William M. James: June 1921-September 1922 Commodore Argentine H. Alington: September 1922-October 1924 Captain Walter J.C. Lake: October 1924-October 1926 Commodore Lawrence W. Braithwaite: October 1926-January 1928 Captain James Wolfe Murray: January 1928-June 1929 Captain Arthur L. Snagge: June-July 1929 Captain Bertram H.Ramsay: September 1929-February 1931 Commodore Geoffrey Layton: February 1931-January 1933 Commodore George P. Thomson: January 1933-September 1934 Commodore Frederic N. Attwood: September 1934-November 1936 Commodore Arthur F.E.Palliser: November 1936-August 1938 Commodore Rhoderick R. McGrigor: August 1938-August 1940 Commodore Fitzroy E.P. Hutton: August 1940-December 1941

Chief of Staff, Eastern Fleet/Far East Station :

Rear-Admiral Arthur F. E. Palliser: December 1941-January 1942 Commodore Ralph A. B.Edwards: March 1942-August 144 Commodore Edward M. Evans-Lombe: August 1944-March 1946 Commodore Stephen H. Carlill: March 1946-August 1948 Commodore Geoffrey F. Burghard: August 1948-September 1950 Captain Ralph L. Fisher: September 1950-October 1952 Commodore Laurence G. Durlacher: October 1952-September 1954 Commodore George A. F. Norfolk: September 1954-October 1956 Commodore Christopher H. Hutchinson: October 1956-March 1959 Rear-Admiral Ronald E. Portlock: March 1959-April 1961 Rear-Admiral Bryan C. Durant: April 1961-July 1963 Rear-Admiral Francis B. P. Brayne-Nicholls: July 1963-July 1965 Rear-Admiral Dennis H. Mason: July 1965-December 1967 Rear-Admiral Ian D. McLaughlan: December 1967-February 1970 Rear-Admiral John A. Templeton-Cotill: February 1970-March 1971

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Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations and Plans :

Captain J. David Luce: December 1945-1946

Captain Edward M. Usherwood: October 1959-February 1960 Captain Thomas H.P. Wilson: February 1960-May 1962 Captain Henry C. Leach: May 1962-June 1964 Captain Raymond P. Dannreuther: June 1964-July 1966 Captain Anthony S. Morton: July 1966-August 1968 Captain Andrew J. Miller: August 1968-October 1970 Captain Derek R. Reffell: October 1970-1971

Captain of the Fleet, Far East Station:

Captain Leonard H. Bell: February 1942-? 1944 Captain Edmund G. Abbott: October 1944-January 1945 Captain Eric W. Longley-Cook: January-July 1945 Captain Hugh St. L. Nicholson: October 1945-January 1947 Captain Charles W. Greening: January 1947-July 1949 Captain Ughtred H.R. James: July 1949-November 1952 Captain Rowland F. Leonard: November 1952-September 1953 Captain John V. Wilkinson: September 1953-May 1955 Captain John F.B. Brown: May 1955-July 1957 Captain Anthony Davies: July 1957-June 1959 Captain Morrice A. McMullen: June 1959-August 1961 Captain Terrence D. Herrick: August 1961-June 1963 Captain George C. Crowley: June 1963-1964 Captain Edward F. Gueritz: January 1965-September 1966 Captain Jack Bitmead: September 1966-May 1968 Captain David V. Morgan: May 1968-1970

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Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station(until 1907 and from 1914; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic from 1952 until 2002):

Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne: January 1860-January 1864 Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope: January 1864-January 1867 Vice-Admiral Sir George R. Mundy: January 1867-June 1869 Vice-Admiral George G. Wellesley: June 1869-September 1870 Vice-Admiral Edward G. Fanshawe: September 1870-September 1873 Admiral George G. Wellesley: September 1873-December 1875 Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key: December 1875-April 1878 Admiral Edward A. Inglefield: April 1878-November 1879 Vice-Admiral F. Leopold McClintock: November 1879-November 1882 Vice-Admiral Sir John E. Commerell: November 1882-August 1885 Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam: August 1885-September 1886 Admiral Algernon McL. Lyons: September 1886-December 1888 Vice-Admiral Sir George W.Watson: December 1888-December 1891 Vice-Admiral Sir John O.Hopkins: December 1891-April 1895 Admiral Sir James E.Erskine: April 1895-September 1897 Vice-Admiral Sir John A. Fisher: September 1897-May 1899 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick G.D. Bedford: May 1899-July 1902 Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald L. Douglas: July 1902-October 1904 Admiral Sir Day H. Bosanquet: October 1904-February 1907 Rear-Admiral Robert S.Phipps Hornby: September 1914-March 1915 Vice-Admiral Sir George E.Patey: March 1915-September 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Montague E.Browning: September 1916-February 1918 Vice-Admiral Sir W. Lowther Grant: February 1918-February 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Morgan Singer: February-December 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Trevylyan D.W.Napier: December 1919-July 1920 Admiral Sir William C. Pakenham: October 1920-January 1923 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: January 1923-May 1924 Admiral Sir James A. Fergusson: May 1924-June 1926 Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan, Bt.: June 1926-July 1928 Vice-Admiral Sir Cyril T. M. Fuller: July 1928-May 1930 Admiral Sir Vernon H. S Haggard: May 1930-April 1932 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald A. R. Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax: April 1932-November 1934 Admiral the Hon. Sir Matthew R. Best: November 1934-May 1937 Admiral Sir Sidney J. Meyrick: May 1937-April 1940 Admiral Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis: April 1940-July 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Alban T.B. Curteis: August 1942-October 1944 156

Vice-Admiral Sir Irvine G. Glennie: October 1944-October 1946 Admiral Sir William G. Tennant: October 1946-April 1949 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard V. Symonds-Tayler: April 1949-October 1951 Vice-Admiral Sir William G. Andrewes: October 1951-October 1953 Vice-Admiral Sir John F. Stevens: October 1953-November 1955 Vice-Admiral Sir John W.M. Eaton: November 1955-December 1957 Vice-Admiral Sir Wilfrid J.W. Woods: December 1957-April 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles L.G. Evans: April 1960-September 1962 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard M. Smeeton: September 1962-January 1964 Vice-Admiral Sir I. William T. Beloe: February 1964-April 1966 Vice-Admiral Sir David G. Clutterbuck: April 1966-August 1968 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter M. Compston: August 1968-September 1970 Vice-Admiral Sir John E.L. Martin: September 1970-January 1973 Vice-Admiral Sir E. Gerard N. Mansfield: January 1973-January 1975 Vice-Admiral Sir James G. Jungius: January 1975-October 1977 Vice-Admiral Sir David A. Loram: October 1977-January 1980 Vice-Admiral Sir Cameron Rusby: January 1980-July 1982 Vice-Admiral Sir David J. Hallifax: July 1982-November 1984 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey T.J.O. Dalton: November 1984-April 1987 Vice-Admiral Sir W. Richard S. Thomas: April 1987-May 1989 Vice-Admiral Sir James L. Weatherall: May 1989-December 1991 Vice-Admiral Sir A. Peter Woodhead: December 1991-November 1993 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter C. Abbott: November 1993-August 1995 Vice-Admiral Sir Ian D.G. Garnett: August 1995-November 1998 Admiral Sir James F. Perowne: November 1998-January 2002 Vice-Admiral Ian A. Forbes: January-October 2002

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Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station (Cape of Good Hope until 1865 and from 1867 until 1919; South Atlantic from 1942 until 1967):

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel: February 1860-February 1861 Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, Bt.: February 1861-January 1865 Commodore William M. Dowell: September 1867-February 1871 Commodore John E. Commerell: February 1871-October 1873 Commodore Sir William N.W. Hewett: October 1873-October 1876 Rear-Admiral Francis W. Sullivan: October 1876-March 1879 Commodore Frederick W. Richards: March 1879-April 1882 Rear-Admiral Nowell Salmon: April 1882-March 1885 Rear-Admiral Sir Walter J. Hunt-Grubbe: March 1885-March 1888 Vice-Admiral Richard Wells: March 1888-September 1890 Vice-Admiral Henry F. Nicholson: September 1890-August 1892 Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick G.D. Bedford: August 1892-May 1895 Rear-Admiral Sir Harry H.Rawson: May 1895-June 1898 Rear-Admiral Sir Robert H. Harris: June 1898-April 1901 Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur W. Moore: April 1901-April 1904 Vice-Admiral Sir John Durnford: April 1904-March 1907 Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund S. Poe: March 1907-August 1908 Vice-Admiral Sir George le C. Egerton: August 1908-January 1911 Vice-Admiral Paul W. Bush: January 1911-January 1913 Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert G.King-Hall: January 1913-June 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Edward F.B.Charlton: June 1916-May 1918 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Edward S. Fitzherbert: May 1918-May 1920 Vice-Admiral Sir William E. Goodenough: May 1920-August 1922 Vice-Admiral Sir Rudolf W. Bentinck: August 1922-February 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Maurice S. Fitzmaurice: February 1925-February 1927 Vice-Admiral David Murray Anderson: February 1927-December 1928 Vice-Admiral Rudolf M. Burmester: February 1929-February 1931 Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh J. Tweedie: February 1931-March 1933 Vice-Admiral Sir Edward R.G.R.Evans: March 1933-September 1935 Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Loftus Tottenham: September 1935-January 1938 Vice-Admiral Sir George H. D’Oyly Lyon: January 1938-August 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert H. Raikes: August 1940-August 1941 Vice-Admiral Algernon U. Willis: August 1941-February 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir W. E. Campbell Tait: February 1942-May 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert L. Burnett: May 1944-July 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir Clement Moody: July 1946-June 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir E.Desmond B. McCarthy: June 1948-August 1950 158

Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert A. Packer: August 1950-September 1952 Vice-Admiral Sir Peveril B.R.W. William-Powlett: September 1952-May 1954 Vice-Admiral Sir Ian M. R. Campbell: May 1954-May 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir W. Geoffrey A. Robson: May 1956-April 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir R. Dymock Watson: April 1958-December 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir Nicholas A. Copeman: December 1960-February 1963 Vice-Admiral Sir A.A. Fitzroy Talbot: February 1963-March 1965 Vice-Admiral Sir John M.D. Gray: March 1965-April 1967

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Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station (until 1958; East Indies and Cape of Good Hope from 1865 until 1867):

Commodore Frederick B. Montresor: January-September 1865 Rear-Admiral Charles F. Hillyar: September 1865-September 1867 Commodore Sir Leopold G. Heath: September 1867-September 1870 Rear-Admiral James H. Cockburn: September 1870-February 1872 Rear-Admiral Arthur Cumming: February 1872-March 1875 Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald J.J.G. Macdonald: March 1875-August 1879 Rear-Admiral William G. Jones: August 1879-April 1882 Vice-Admiral Sir William N.W. Hewett: April 1882-May 1885 Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards: May 1885-February 1888 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund C. Fremantle: February 1888-February 1891 Rear-Admiral Frederick C.B.Robinson: February 1891-January 1892 Rear-Admiral William R.Kennedy: January 1892-March 1895 Rear-Admiral Edmund C. Drummond: March 1895-January 1898 Rear-Admiral Archibald L. Douglas: January 1898-July 1899 Vice-Admiral Sir Day H. Bosanquet: July 1899-July 1902 Rear-Admiral Sir Charles C. Drury: July 1902-July 1903 Vice-Admiral Sir George L. Atkinson-Willes: July 1903-November 1905 Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund S. Poe: November 1905-March 1907 Rear-Admiral Sir George J.S. Warrender, Bt.: March 1907-April 1909 Rear-Admiral Sir Edmond J.W. Slade: April 1909-March 1912 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E.Bethell: March- December 1912 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard H.Peirse: December 1912-January 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn E. Wemyss: January 1916-June 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Ernest F.A. Gaunt: June 1917-November 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh H.D.Tothill: November 1919-November 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker: November 1921-December 1923 Vice-Admiral Herbert W. Richmond: December 1923-November 1925 Vice-Admiral Walter M. Ellerton: November 1925-December 1927 Vice-Admiral Bertram S. Thesiger: December 1927-October 1929 Vice-Admiral Eric J. A. Fullerton: October 1929-April 1932 Vice-Admiral Sir Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: April 1932-December 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Frank F. Rose: December 1934-May 1936 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander R. M. Ramsay: May 1936-July 1938 Vice-Admiral Sir James F. Somerville: July 1938-April 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham: April 1939-April 1941 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot: April 1941-March 1942 Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton: March 1942-November 1944 160

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur J. Power: November 1944-December 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Clement Moody: December 1945-March 1946 Admiral Sir Arthur F.E. Palliser: March 1946-April 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles H.L. Woodhouse: April 1948-April 1950 Admiral Sir Geoffrey N. Oliver: April 1950-August 1952 Admiral Sir William R. Slayter: August 1952-August 1954 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles F.W. Norris: August 1954-July 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir Hilary W. Biggs: July 1956-September 1958

Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station (until 1913):

Commodore William Loring: March 1859-March 1860 Commodore F. Beauchamp P. Seymour: March 1860-July 1862 Commodore William F. Burnett: July 1862-February 1863 Commodore Sir William S. Wiseman, Bt.: April 1863-May 1866 Commodore Rochfort Maguire: May 1866-May 1867 Commodore Rowley Lambert: May 1867-April 1870 Commodore Frederick H. Stirling: April 1870-May 1873 Commodore James G. Goodenough: May 1873-September 1875 Commodore Anthony H. Hoskins: September 1875-September 1878 Rear-Admiral John C.Wilson: September 1878-January 1882 Commodore James E.Erskine: January 1882-January 1885 Rear-Admiral George Tryon: January 1885-February 1887 Rear-Admiral Henry Fairfax: February 1887-September 1889 Rear-Admiral Lord Charles T. Montagu-Douglas- Scott: September 1889-September 1892 Vice-Admiral Nathaniel Bowden-Smith: September 1892-November 1894 Rear-Admiral Cyprian A.G.Bridge: November 1894-January 1898 Rear-Admiral Hugo L. Pearson: January 1898-January 1901 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis A. Beaumont: January 1901-January 1903 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur D. Fanshawe: January 1903-November 1905 Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes: November 1905-February 1908 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Bt.: February 1908-February 1911 Vice-Admiral Sir George F. King-Hall: February 1911-June 1913

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Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station (until 1905):

Rear-Admiral Thomas Maitland: May 1860-October 1862 Vice-Admiral John Kingcombe: November 1862-May 1864 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Joseph Denman: May 1864-November 1866 Vice-Admiral the Hon. George F. Hastings: November 1866-November 1869 Rear-Admiral Arthur Farquhar: November 1869-July 1872 Vice-Admiral Charles F. Hillyar: July 1872-June 1873 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Arthur A.L.P. Cochrane: June 1873-April 1876 Rear-Admiral George Hancock: April-August 1876 Rear-Admiral Algernon F. R. de Horsey: September 1876-July 1879 Rear-Admiral Frederick H.Stirling: July 1879-December 1881 Rear-Admiral Algernon McL. Lyons: December 1881-September 1884 Rear-Admiral John K.E.Baird: September 1884-July 1885 Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt.: July 1885-September 1887 Vice-Admiral Algernon C.F. Heneage: September 1887-February 1890 Rear-Admiral Charles F. Hotham: February 1890-May 1893 Rear-Admiral Henry F. Stephenson: May 1893-June 1896 Rear-Admiral Henry St. L. B. Palliser: June 1896-June 1899 Rear-Admiral Lewis A. Beaumont: June 1899-January 1901 Rear-Admiral Andrew K. Bickford: January 1901-December 1903 Commodore James E.C. Goodrich: December 1903-March 1905

Commander, Allied Naval Forces, Northern Europe :

Vice-Admiral Sir Edward M. Evans-Lombe: April 1953-June 1955 Vice-Admiral Sir Gerald V. Gladstone: June 1955-June 1957 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur R. Pedder: June 1957-1959 Rear-Admiral John Howson: February 1961-1962

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Flag Officer, Germany (until 1961):

Admiral Sir Harold M. Burrough: May 1945-March 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir Harold T.C. Walker: March 1946-June 1947 Rear-Admiral Stephen H.T. Arliss: June 1947-August 1949 Rear-Admiral Archibald Day: August 1949-April 1950 Rear-Admiral Lachlan D. Mackintosh: April-November 1950 Rear-Admiral George W.G. Simpson: November 1950-November 1951 Rear-Admiral Robert St. V. Sherbrooke: November 1951-November 1953 Rear-Admiral Robert S. Warne: November 1953-March 1955 Rear-Admiral Keith McN. Campbell-Walter: March 1955-May 1958 Rear-Admiral Michael S. Townsend: May 1958-1961

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Flag Officer, Gibraltar (Senior Naval Officer until 1902; Commander, British Forces, Gibraltar from 1992):

Captain Atwell P.M. Lake: January 1892-January 1895 Captain James A.T. Bruce: January 1895-January 1898 Captain Charles C. Drury: January 1898-September 1899 Captain William H. Pigott: September 1899-October 1902 Vice-Admiral Sir William A. Dyke Acland, Bt.: October 1902-July 1904 Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, Bt.: July 1904-September 1906 Rear-Admiral Sir James E.C. Goodrich: September 1906-September 1909 Vice-Admiral Frederick S. Pelham: September 1909-October 1912 Vice-Admiral Frederic E.E.Brock: October 1912-October1915 Rear-Admiral Bernard Currey: October 1915-July 1917 Rear-Admiral Sir Heathcoat S.Grant: July 1917-July 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Y.Tyrwhitt, Bt.: July 1919-January 1921 Rear-Admiral Henry B.Pelly: January 1921-January 1923 Rear-Admiral Walter M. Ellerton: January 1923-April 1925 Rear-Admiral Richard G.A.W.Stapleton-Cotton: April 1925-April 1927 Rear-Admiral Cyril S. Townsend: April 1927-April 1929 Rear-Admiral Berwick Curtis: April 1929-April 1931 Rear-Admiral Thomas N. James: April 1931-May 1933 Rear-Admiral Francis M. Austin: May 1933-May 1935 Vice-Admiral Sir James M. Pipon: May 1935-May 1937 Rear-Admiral Alfred E. Evans: May 1937-May 1939 Rear-Admiral Norman A. Wodehouse: May-November 1939 Admiral Sir Dudley B. N. North: November 1939-December 1940 Admiral Sir G. Frederick B. Edward-Collins: December 1940-September 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir Harold M. Burrough: September 1943-January 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Victor A.C. Crutchley: January 1945-December 1946 Vice-Admiral Ernest R. Archer: December 1946-June 1948 Vice-Admiral Patrick W.B. Brooking: June 1948-June 1950 Vice-Admiral Lord Ashbourne: June 1950-May 1952 Rear-Admiral St. John A. Micklethwait: May 1952-October 1953 Rear-Admiral Harry P. Currey: October 1953-May 1956 Rear-Admiral Roy S. Foster-Brown: May 1956-February 1959 Rear-Admiral Philip F. Powlett: February 1959-March 1962 Rear-Admiral Erroll N. Sinclair: March 1962-July 1964 Rear-Admiral Thomas W. Best: July 1964-November 1966 Rear-Admiral Michael F. Fell: November 1966-April 1968 Rear-Admiral Ian W. Jamieson: April 1968-October 1969 164

Rear-Admiral A. Rodney B. Sturdee: October 1969-January 1972 Rear-Admiral Hubert W.E. Hollins: January 1972-May 1974 Rear-Admiral Sefton R. Sandford: May 1974-September 1976 Rear-Admiral Michael L. Stacey: September 1976-January 1979 Rear-Admiral Gwynedd I. Pritchard: January 1979-January 1981 Rear-Admiral D. John Mackenzie: January 1981-January 1983 Rear-Admiral George M.F. Vallings: January 1983-March 1985 Rear-Admiral Peter G.V. Dingemans: March 1985-September 1987 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Nicholas J. Hill-Norton: September 1987-January 1990 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey W.R. Biggs: January 1990-April 1992 Rear-Admiral Jeremy T. Sanders: April 1992-December 1994 Major-General Simon J. Pack: December 1994-April 1997 Commodore Alastair J.S. Taylor: April 1997-June 1999 Commodore Andrew N. Willmett: June 1999-December 2001 Commodore Richard J. Clapp: December 2001-May 2004 Commodore David S.H. White: May 2004-January 2005 Commodore Allan A.S. Adair: January 2005-May 2007 Commodore Matthew J. Parr: May 2007-February 2009 Commodore Adrian S. Bell: February 2009-September 2010 Commodore Thomas M. Karsten: September 2010-November 2012 Commodore John R.H. Clink: November 2012-August 2014 Commodore Ian McGhie: August 2014-July 2016 Commodore Michael J.D. Walliker: July 2016-September 2018 Commodore Timothy M. Henry: September 2018-July 2020 Commodore Steven Dainton: July 2020-

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Chief Staff Officer, Gibraltar :

Captain John Harvey: December 1912-? 1917 Captain Denis B. Crampton: August 1917-February 1919 Captain Walter E. Woodward: February-September 1919 Captain William M. Moir: September 1919-July 1921 Captain Ambrose M. Peck: July 1921-August 1923 Captain Harry R.Godfrey: August 1923-November 1924 Captain Everard J. Hardman-Jones: November 1924-November 1926 Captain F.Burges Watson: November 1926-April 1928 Captain George H. Knowles: April 1928-April 1930 Captain Vernon S. Butler: April 1930-April 1932 Captain Piers K. Kekewich: April 1932-May 1934 Captain Arthur M. Peters: May 1934-May 1936 Captain Thomas B. Fellowes: May 1936-May 1938 Captain Geoffrey R.S. Watkins: May 1938-October 1939 Captain Robert G. Duke: October 1939-June 1941 Captain Geoffrey A. B. Hawkins: June 1941-April 1943 Captain John C. Annesley: April 1943-April 1945 Captain George T. Phillip: April 1945-March 1947 Captain Frederick S. Bell: March-November 1947 Captain David Gilmour: November 1947-December 1948 Captain Francis J. Butler: December 1948-January 1951 Captain St. John Cronyn: January 1951-December 1952 Captain Peter D.H.R. Pelly: December 1952-October 1954 Captain James C. Stopford: October 1954-August 1956 Captain Roland C. Watkin: August 1956-July 1958 Captain George B. Rowe: July 1958-July 1960 Captain Ronald de L. Brooke: July 1960-October 1962 Captain Arthur H. Rowlandson: October 1962-October 1965 Captain Alan G. Smalley: October 1965-September 1967 Captain the Hon. Terence V. Stopford: September 1967-July 1969 Captain Arthur B.B. Clark: July 1969-October 1971 Captain Denis H. Frazer: October 1971-October Captain Derek C. Matthews: October 1973-February 1975 Captain Brian R. Longworth: February 1975-October 1976 Captain Edward M.C. Walker: October 1976-October 1978 Captain Ian F. Grant: October 1978-October 1980 Captain Gerald A.S. Paul: October 1980-November 1982 Captain Harry G. de Courcy-Ireland: November 1982-August 1985 166

Captain Edward M. Hackett: August 1985-January 1987 Captain Michael Bickley: January 1987-December 1988 Captain Richard S. Wraith: December 1988-

Flag Officer, Western Mediterranean :

Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey J.A. Miles: July 1944-1945

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Flag Officer, Malta (Admiral Superintendant, Malta Dockyard until 192 ; until 1963 and from 1967 until 1979):

Rear-Admiral Henry J. Codrington: July 1858-April 1863 Rear-Admiral Horatio T. Austin: April 1863-Novermber 1864 Vice-Admiral Henry Kellett: November 1864-April 1868 Vice-Admiral Edward G. Fanshawe: April 1868-June 1870 Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper Key: June 1870-August 1872 Vice-Admiral Edward A. Inglefield: August 1872-December 1876 Vice-Admiral Edward B. Rice: December 1876-June 1879 Rear-Admiral John D. McCrea: June 1879-March 1882 Vice-Admiral William Graham: March 1882-March 1885 Vice-Admiral the Hon. William J. Ward: March 1885-May 1887 Vice-Admiral R. Gordon Douglas: May 1887-January 1889 Rear-Admiral Alexander Buller: January 1889-February 1892 Rear-Admiral Richard E. Tracey: February 1892-February 1894 Rear-Admiral Richard Duckworth-King: February 1894-February 1897 Rear-Admiral Rodney M. Lloyd: February 1897-March 1900 Rear-Admiral Burges Watson: March 1900-February 1902 Rear-Admiral James L. Hammet: February 1902-February 1905 Vice-Admiral Arthur C. B. Bromley: February 1905-February 1907 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederic W. Fisher: February 1907-January 1910 Rear-Admiral Ernest A. Simons: January 1910-August 1912 Vice-Admiral Sackville H. Carden: August 1912-September 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur H.Limpus: September 1914-October1916 Rear-Admiral George A.Ballard: October 1916-November 1918 Rear-Admiral Brian H.F.Barttelot: November 1918-October 1921 Rear-Admiral John Luce: October 1921-February 1924 Rear-Admiral Charles D. Johnson: February 1924-March 1926 Rear-Admiral Alexander V.Campbell: March 1926-July 1928 Vice-Admiral Francis H. Mitchell: July 1928-July 1931 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Matthew R. Best: July 1931-January 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Wilfred F. French: January 1934-January 1937 Vice-Admiral Sir Wilbraham T.R.Ford: January 1937-January 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham: January-December 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Stuart S. Bonham-Carter: December 1942-May 1943 Vice-Admiral Arthur J. Power: May-October 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir Louis H.K. Hamilton: October 1943-April 1945 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick H.G.Dalrymple- Hamilton: April 1945-June 1946 168

Rear-Admiral Marcel H.A. Kelsey: June 1946-June 1948 Rear-Admiral Charles P. Clarke: June 1948-July 1950 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey A.B. Hawkins: July 1950-September 1952 Rear-Admiral Jocelyn S.C. Salter: September 1952-August 1954 Rear-Admiral Wilfred G. Brittain: August 1954-June 1957 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: June 1957-July 1959 Rear-Admiral Derick H.F. Hetherington: July 1959-July 1961 Rear-Admiral Viscount Kelburn: July 1961-1963 Rear-Admiral Dudley L. Davenport: June 1967-June 1969 Rear-Admiral Derrick G. Kent: June 1969-July 1971 Rear-Admiral John A. Templeton-Cotlll: July 1971-August 1973 Rear-Admiral David A. Loram: August 1973-June 1975 Rear-Admiral Sir O. Nigel A. Cecil: June 1975-1979

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Chief Staff Officer, Malta ;

Captain George B. Powell: March 1913-November 1916 Captain Harry R. Veale: November 1916-March 1919 Captain Thomas D. Gilbert: November 1919-December 1921 Captain R.C. Kemble Lambert: December 1921-January 1923 Captain Hubert S. Monroe: January 1923-January 1925 Captain Dashwood F. Moir: January 1925-December 1926 Captain Edward O.B.S. Osborne: December 1926-December 1928 Captain Clinton F.S. Danby: December 1928-December 1930 Captain James V. Creagh: December 1930-December 1932 Captain Sir Lionel A.D. Sturdee, Bt.: December 1932-December 1934 Captain Eric R.Corson: December 1934-February 1937 Captain John W.Durnford: February 1937-February 1939 Captain Edward C. Denison: February 1939-July 1940 Captain John P. Wright: July 1940-March 1941 Captain Geoffrey W.Wadham: March 1941-October 1942 Captain Casper S.B. Swinley: October 1942-April 1943 Captain Roderick L.M. Edwards: April-November 1943 Captain Thomas A.C. Pakenham: November 1943-January 1946 Captain Casper S.B. Swinley: January-March 1946 Captain Cecil B. Turner: March 1946-September 1948 Captain Thomas L. Bratt: September 1948-September 1950 Captain John A.W. Tothill: September 1950-October 1952 Captain Maurice K. Cavenagh-Mainwaring: October 1952-November 1954 Captain Alan D.H. Jay: November 1954-November 1956 Captain the Earl of Roden: November 1956-November 1957 Captain Anthony C. Tupper: November 1957-November 1959 Captain Archibald J. Milne Home: November 1959-April 1962 Captain Robert W. Mayo: April 1962-September 1963 Captain Edward Palmer: September 1963-May 1965 Captain M. Lindsay C. Crawford: May 1965-June 1968 Captain John S. Le Blanc Smith: June 1968-January 1970 Captain Robert A. Gilchrist: January 1970-October 1971 Captain Roi E. Wilson: October 1971-January 1974 Captain James W. Kelly: January 1974-October 1975 Captain Wilbert A. Tofts: October 1975-December 1977

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Captain of Dockyard, Malta :

Captain Thomas Roberson: May 1894- Captain William J. Symons: May 1898-August 1900 Captain Arthur T. Stuart: August 1900-March 1904 Captain Owen F. Gillett: March 1904-? 1907 Captain James C. Tancred: April 1908-April 1910 Captain Hughes C. Lockyer: April 1910-July 1912 Captain Francis A. L. Andrews: July 1912-? 1919 Captain Horace C. Watson: ? 1919-July 1921 Captain Howard J.L.W.K. Willcox: July 1921-November 1922 Captain Frederick C. Fisher: November 1922-October 1924 Captain Aubrey Lambert: October 1924-October 1926 Captain Malcolm L. Goldsmith: October 1926-October 1928 Captain Richard A.A. Plowden: October 1928-October 1930 Captain John H. Young: October 1930-November 1932 Captain Charles G. Stuart: November 1932-November 1934 Captain Charles A. Browne: November 1934-November 1936 Captain Ronald G. Bowes-Lyon: November 1936-March 1939 Rear-Admiral Kenneth H. L. Mackenzie: March 1939-October 1943 Rear-Admiral Piers K. Kekewich: October 1943-January 1946 Captain Wilfrid St.A. Malleson: October 1943-January 1946 Commodore David Orr-Ewing: January 1946-December 1947 Captain Arthur G.V. Hubback: December 1947-March 1950 Captain Earle H. Thomas: February 1948-March 1950 Captain Richard G. Tosswill: March 1950-March 1952 Captain J. Michael Villiers: March 1952-March 1954 Captain Thomas D. Ross: March 1954-December 1955 Captain Leslie W.A. Bennington: December 1955-April 1958 Captain George G. Wilson: April 1958-1959

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Commander-in-Chief, Levant(Flag Officer, Middle East from 1946 until 1959 and from 1962 until 1967; Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf from 1959 until 1962):

Vice-Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood: February-June 1943 Admiral Sir John H.D. Cunningham: June-October 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis: October-December 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir H. Bernard H. Rawlings: December 1943-October 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir William G. Tennant: October 1944-August 1946 Rear-Admiral Henry W. U. McCall: August 1946-September 1948 Rear-Admiral Albert L. Poland: September 1948-March 1950 Rear-Admiral Ian M.R. Campbell: March 1950-June 1952 Rear-Admiral Graham H. Stokes: June 1952-April 1954 Rear-Admiral Patrick W. Brock: April 1954-March 1956 Rear-Admiral Anthony C.C. Miers: March 1956-1959 Rear-Admiral A.A. Fitzroy Talbot: August 1960-August 1962 Rear-Admiral John E. Scotland: August 1962-August 1964 Rear-Admiral Peter N. Howes: August 1964-September 1966 Rear-Admiral John E.L. Martin: September 1966-September 1967

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Commodore, Jamaica( until 1905; West Indies from 1956 until 1976):

Commodore Hugh Dunlop: November 1859-January 1864 Commodore Peter Cracroft: March 1864-1865 Commodore F. Leopold McClintock: September 1865-February 1868 Commodore Augustus Phillimore: February 1868-December 1869 Commodore Richard W. Courtenay: December 1869-January 1872 Commodore Algernon F.R. de Horsey: January 1872-February 1875 Commodore Algernon McL. Lyons: February 1875-February 1878 Commodore the Hon. William J. Ward: February 1878-August 1880 Commodore William S. Brown: August 1880-August 1882 Commodore J. Child Purvis: August 1882-July 1883 Commodore Francis M. Prattent: July 1883-July 1886 Commodore Henry Hand: July 1886-September 1889 Commodore Rodney M. Lloyd: September 1889-September 1892 Commodore Thomas S. Jackson: September 1892-September 1895 Commodore Herbert W. Dowding: September 1895-April 1898 Commodore William H. Henderson: April 1898-February 1900 Commodore Edward H.M. Davis: February 1900-May 1901 Commodore Daniel McN. Riddel: May 1901-July 1903 Commodore Frederic W. Fisher: July 1903-March 1905 Commodore George E. Hunt: April 1956-June 1958 Commodore W. John Parker: June 1958-January 1960 Commodore Hinton C.J. Shand: January 1960-June 1961 Commodore John E.L. Martin: June 1961-July 1963 Commodore Edward B. Ashmore: July 1963-December 1964 Commodore Hubert H. Dannreuther: December 1964-August 1966 Commodore John M. Townley: August 1966-November 1968 Commodore Martin N. Lucey: November 1968-June 1970 Commodore David G. Roome: June 1970-March 1972 Commodore Cameron Rusby: March 1972-May 1974 Commodore Bryan J. Straker: May 1974-June 1976

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Commodore, South America Division(South-East Coast of America , 189 to 1904):

Commodore Charles J. Norcock: 189 –June 1899 Commodore Robert L. Groome: June 1899-June 1902 Commodore Frank Finnis: June 1902-December 1904 Commodore Richard H.O.Lane-Poole: September 1931-October 1933 Commodore Alfred E.Evans: October 1933-October 1935 Vacant: 1935-1936 Commodore Sir Henry H.Harwood: September 1936-July 1940 Rear-Admiral Frank H. Pegram: July 1940-March 1942

Flag Officer, West Africa :

Vice-Admiral Frank H. Pegram: March 1942-March 1943 Vice-Admiral H. Bernard H. Rawlings: March-November 1943 Vice-Admiral Arthur M. Peters: November 1943-1945

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Captain-in-Charge, Simonstown :

Captain James U. Farie: June 1919-June 1921 Captain Forster D. Arnold-Forster: June 1921-December 1922 Captain Gordon Campbell: December 1922-May 1925 Captain John C. Hodgson: May 1925-May 1927 Captain Basil G. Washington: May 1927-April 1929 Captain Edward McC. W. Lawrie: April 1929-May 1931 Captain Hector Boyes: May 1931-May 1933 Captain John H. Young: May 1933-May 1935 Captain Algernon R. Smithwick: May 1935-June 1937 Captain Charles G. Stuart: June 1937-November 1939 Rear-Admiral Douglas A. Budgen: November 1939-June 1942 Rear-Admiral Benjamin W. Barrow: June 1942-May 1944 Rear-Admiral John H. Young: May 1944-February 1946 Captain Edmund G. Abbott: February 1946-February 1948 Captain Roy C. Harry: February 1948-April 1950 Captain William H. Selby: April 1950-November 1952 Captain Geoffrey T. Lambert: November 1952-September 1954 Captain Howard F. Bone: September 1954-March 1957 Captain Donald McEwen: March 1957-June 1958 Captain Rupert C.P. Wainwright: June 1958-May 1960 Captain Peter B. Marriott: May 1960-October 1962 Captain Peter J. Bayne: October 1962-December 1964 Captain Dennis K.L. Learmount: December 1964-April 1967 Commodore James W.D. Cook: April 1967-May 1969 Commodore Thomas E. Fanshawe: May 1969-June 1971 Commodore O. Nigel A. Cecil: June 1971-June 1973 Commodore Alastair F.C. Wemyss: June 1973-April 1976

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Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf (until 1960 and from 1962):

Commodore David T. Norris: December 1918-February 1920 Captain John L. Pearson: February 1920-February 1922 Captain Alexander R. Palmer: February 1922-March 1924 Captain Ernest W. Leir: March 1924-February 1926 Captain Reginald St. P. Parry: February 1926-January 1928 Captain Hector Boyes: January 1928-May 1930 Captain Lewis G. E. Crabbe: May 1930-March 1933 Captain James V. Creagh: March 1933-March 1935 Captain Vernon S. Butler: March 1935-March 1937 Commodore Allan Poland: March 1937-April 1939 Commodore Cosmo M. Graham: April 1939-February 1942 Commodore Charles F. Hammill: February 1942-January 1944 Commodore John M. Howson: January-September 1944 Commodore Ivan W. Whitehorn: September 1944-1945 Captain Peter Skelton: April 1949-August 1950 Captain Arthur H. Wallis: August 1950-April 1952 Captain Hugh G. Waters: April 1952-October 1953 Captain Alan S. Webb: October 1953-October 1954 Captain Vere A. Wight-Boycott: October 1954-April 1956 Captain Stephen H. Beattie: April 1956-April 1958 Commodore George F.M. Best: April 1958-August 1960 Commodore Michael D. Kyrle-Pope: April 1962-April 1964 Commodore Edmund S. Carver: April 1964-October 1966 Commodore Thomas E. Fanshawe: October 1966-December 1968 Commodore Kenneth Lee-White: December 1968-September 1970 Commodore Sir Peter Anson, Bt.: September 1970-1972

Flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy (until 1950):

Vice-Admiral Sir Humphrey T.Walwyn: October 1928-October 1934 Vice-Admiral Arthur E.F.Bedford: October 1934-November 1937 Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert Fitzherbert: November 1937-March 1943 Admiral John H.Godfrey: March 1943-March 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey J. A. Miles: March 1946-August 1947 Rear-Admiral John T.S. Hall: August 1947-August 1948 Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry: August 1948-January 1950

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Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse :

Commodore Alfred A. Ellison: June 1919-May 1920 Rear-Admiral George H.Borrett: May 1920-October 1921 Rear-Admiral Crawford Maclachlan: October 1921-October 1923 Rear-Admiral David Murray Anderson: October 1923-August 1925 Rear-Admiral John E.Cameron: August 1925-October1927 Rear-Admiral Hugh J.Tweedie: October 1927-October 1929 Rear-Admiral Colin K.Maclean: October 1929-October 1931 Rear-Admiral Richard A.S.Hill: October 1931-October 1933 Rear-Admiral Francis G.G.Chilton: October 1933-October1935 Rear-Admiral Lewis G.E.Crabbe: October 1935-January 1938 Rear-Admiral Reginald V.Holt: January 1938-October 1939 Rear-Admiral John G.P. Vivian: October 1939-1940

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Commodore, Hong Kong (until 1941 and from 1945):

Commodore Oliver J. Jones: March 1866-December 1869 Commodore John A.P. Price: December 1869-September 1870 Commodore Francis H. Shortt: September 1870-August 1873 Commodore John E. Parish: August 1873-March 1876 Commodore George W. Watson: March 1876-March 1879 Commodore Thomas E. Smith: March 1879-May 1881 Commodore William H. Cuming: May 1881-February 1884 Commodore George Digby Morant: February 1884-February 1887 Commodore William H. Maxwell: February 1887-December 1888 Commodore Edmund J. Church: December 1888-December 1891 Commodore Henry St.L. Bury Palliser: December 1891-June 1893 Commodore George T.H. Boyes: June 1893-July 1896 Commodore Swinton C. Holland: July 1896-March 1899 Commodore Francis Powell: March 1899-March 1902 Commodore Charles G. Robinson: March 1902-February 1904 Commodore Charles Gauntlett Dicken: February 1904-September 1905 Commodore Hugh P. Williams: September 1905-April 1907 Commodore Robert H.S. Stokes: April 1907-October 1908 Commodore Herbert Lyon: October 1908-July 1910 Commodore Cresswell J. Eyres: July 1910-July 1912 Rear-Admiral Robert H. Anstruther: July 1912-May 1916 Commodore Henry G.G. Sandeman: May 1916-May 1918 Commodore Victor G. Gurner: May 1918-June 1920 Commodore William Bowden-Smith: June 1920-June 1922 Commodore Henry E. Grace: June 1922-October 1924 Commodore Anselan J.B.Stirling: October 1924-November 1926 Commodore John L. Pearson: November 1926-October 1928 Commodore Richard A. S. Hill: October 1928-November 1930 Commodore Arthur H. Walker: November 1930-August 1932 Commodore Edward McC. W.Lawrie: August 1932-June 1933 Commodore Frank Elliott: July 1933-April 1935 Commodore Cyril G.Sedgwick: April 1935-April 1937 Commodore Edward B.C.Dicken: April 1937-April 1939 Commodore Arthur M. Peters: April 1939-November 1940 Commodore Alfred C. Collinson: November 1940-December 1941 Commodore Douglas H. Everett: August 1945-June 1947 Commodore Charles L. Robertson: June 1947-June 1949 Commodore Leslie N. Brownfield: June 1949-July 1951 178

Commodore Harold G. Dickinson: July 1951-July 1953 Commodore Anthony H. Thorold: July 1953-June 1955 Commodore John H. Unwin: June 1955-March 1957 Commodore G. David A. Gregory: March 1957-April 1960 Commodore Adrian R.L. Butler: April 1960-October 1962 Commodore George O.Symonds: November 1962-February 1965 Commodore Frank D. Holford: February 1965-January 1967 Commodore Thomas H.P. Wilson: January 1967-October 1968 Commodore Philip R.C. Higham: October 1968-July 1970 Commodore Roger E.S. Wykes-Sneyd: July 1970-August 1972 Commodore John K. Stevens: August 1972-August 1973 Commodore John A.G. Evans: August 1973-October 1975 Captain Richard L. Garnons-Williams: October 1975-March 1978 Captain Robert W. Moland: March 1978-June 1980 Captain Andrew A. Waugh: June 1980-June 1982 Captain Frederick A. Collins: June 1982-March 1985 Captain Christopher W. Gotto: March 1985-July 1987 Captain Peter Dalrymple-Smith: July 1987-January 1990 Captain Michael C. Gordon Lennox: January 1990-1992 Captain Thomas L.M. Sunter: 1992-1994 Captain Peter J. Melson: 1994-1995 Captain Andrew K. Steele: 1995-1996

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Captain-in-Charge, Singapore (until 1942; Flag Officer, Malaya from 1945 until 1958 ):

Captain Cloudesley V. Robinson: October 1921-October 1923 Captain Percy R. Stevens: October 1923-December 1925 Captain Hugh S. Shipway: December 1925-October 1927 Captain Geoffrey Mackworth: October 1927-September 1929 Captain Evelyn C.O.Thomson: September 1929-November 1931 Captain Miles B. Birkett: November 1931-November 1932 Captain Malcolm R.J. Maxwell-Scott: November 1932-September 1934 Commodore William P. Mark-Wardlaw: September 1934-September 1936 Commodore Marshal L. Clarke: September 1936-November 1938 Rear-Admiral Thomas B. Drew: November 1938-June 1941 Rear-Admiral Ernest J. Spooner: June 1941-February 1942 Rear-Admiral Sir J. Anthony V. Morse: September 1945-April 1946 Rear-Admiral H. Jack Egerton: April 1946-December 1947 Vice-Admiral Clifford Caslon: December 1947-January 1950 Rear-Admiral Hugh W. Faulkner: January 1950-December 1951 Rear-Admiral Anthony F. Pugsley: December 1951-November 1953 Rear-Admiral Ernest H. Shattock: November 1953-April 1956 Rear-Admiral George A. Thring: May 1956-1958

First Naval Member, Commonwealth Naval Board, Australia:

Rear-Admiral Sir E.Percy F.G.Grant: June 1919-February 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir Allan F.Everett: February 1921-August 1923 Rear-Admiral Percival H.Hall-Thompson: February 1924-June 1926 Rear-Admiral William R.Napier: June 1926-June 1929 Vice-Admiral William M.Kerr: October 1929-October 1931 Admiral Sir G.Francis Hyde: October 1931-November 1937 Admiral Sir Ragnar M.Colvin: November 1937-July 1941 Admiral Sir Guy C.C.Royle: July 1941-June 1945 Admiral Sir Louis H.K.Hamilton: June 1945-February 1948

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Commanding Officer, Royal Australian Fleet (from 1913 until 1916 and from 1919):

Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Patey: June 1913-September 1916 Rear-Admiral John S. Dumaresq: March 1919-April 1922 Rear-Admiral A.Percy Addison: April 1922-April 1924 Commodore Thomas E.Wardle: April 1924-April 1926 Rear-Admiral G. Francis Hyde: April 1926-May 1929 Rear-Admiral Edward R.G.R. Evans: May 1929-May 1931 Rear-Admiral L. Stanley Holbrook: May 1931-April 1932 Rear-Admiral Robin C.Dalglish: April 1932-April 1934 Rear-Admiral Wilbraham T.R.Ford: April 1934-April 1936 Rear-Admiral Richard H.O.Lane-Poole: April 1936-April 1938 Rear-Admiral Wilfred N.Custance: April 1938-November 1939 Rear-Admiral John G.Crace: November1939-March 1942 Rear-Admiral Victor A.C.Crutchley: March 1942-September 1944 Rear-Admiral John A.S. Eccles: October 1949-October 1951 Rear-Admiral John W.M. Eaton: October 1951-December 1953

Commanding, New Zealand Station (until 1940):

Commodore Alan G.Hotham: March 1921-August 1923 Commodore Alister F.Beal: August 1923-August1926 Commodore G. T. Carlisle P.Swabey: August 1926-September 1929 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake: September 1929-April 1932 Rear-Admiral F.Burges Watson: April 1932-March 1935 Rear-Admiral the Hon.Edmund R.Drummond: March 1935-June 1938 Commodore Irvine G.Glennie: June-December 1938 Commodore James W.Rivett-Carnac: December 1938-December1939 Commodore Henry E.Horan: December 1939-April 1940 Commodore W.Edward Parry: May-October 1940

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Admiral, British Joint Services Mission, U.S.A .:

Admiral Sir Charles J.C. Little: January-April 1942 Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham: April-November 1942 Admiral Sir Percy L.H. Noble: November 1942-October 1944 Admiral of the Fleet Sir James F. Somerville: October 1944-December 1945 Admiral Sir Henry R. Moore: December 1945-September 1948 Admiral Sir Frederick H.G. Dalrymple-Hamilton: September1948-August 1950 Admiral the Hon. Sir Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant: August 1950-July 1952 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil C. Hughes-Hallett: July 1952-August 1954 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Barnard: August 1954-September 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert F. Elkins: September 1956-September 1958 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith: September 1958-November 1960 Vice-Admiral Sir William G. Crawford: November 1960-January 1963 Vice-Admiral John F.D. Bush: January 1963-February 1965 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Compston: February 1965-April 1967 Rear-Admiral Louis E.S.H. Le Bailly: April 1967-September 1969 Rear-Admiral Colin C.H. Dunlop: September 1969-July 1971 Rear-Admiral W.David S. Scott: July 1971-July 1973 Rear-Admiral Lancelot R. Bell Davies: July 1973-July 1975 Rear-Admiral Roy W. Halliday: July 1975-November 1977 Rear-Admiral R. Michael Burgoyne: November 1977-May 1980 Rear-Admiral John B. Hervey: May 1980-June 1982 Rear-Admiral Patrick J. Symons: June 1982-November 1984 Rear-Admiral Norman R.D. King: November 1984-December 1986 Rear-Admiral Michael C. Cole: December 1986-April 1990 Rear-Admiral A. Paul Hoddinott: April 1990-September 1993 Rear-Admiral David (Tom) A.J. Blackburn: September 1993-April 1997

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Naval Attache, U.S.A .:

Captain Lewis Bayly: July 1900-September 1902 Captain Dudley R.S. de Chair: September 1902-September 1905 Captain Frank E.C.Ryan: September 1905-October 1907 Captain the Hon. Horace L.A. Hood: October 1907-November 1908 Captain Charles F. Sowerby: November 1908-June 1912 Captain Heathcoat S. Grant: June 1912-June 1914 Commodore Guy R.A. Gaunt: June 1914-February 1918 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor A. Stanley: February 1918-October 1919 Captain Geoffrey Blake: October 1919-March 1921 Captain Sidney R.Bailey: March 1921-October 1922 Captain Francis L. Loftus Tottenham: October 1922-October 1925 Captain the Hon.Alan R.Stopford: October 1925-March 1928 Captain James S.M.Ritchie: March 1928-March 1931 Captain Patrick Macnamara: March 1931-May 1933 Captain A.Ramsay Dewar: May 1933-June 1935 Captain Frederic C.Bradley: June 1935-May 1938 Captain Leicester C.A. St.J. Curzon-Howe: May 1938-June 1940 Rear-Admiral Herbert Pott: June 1940-September 1944 Captain E.M. Conolly Abel Smith: September 1944-June 1946 Captain Patrick W.W.Wootten: July 1946-October 1948 Captain John Holmes: October 1948-February 1951 Captain John R.B. Longden: February 1951-January 1953 Captain Ludovic E. Porter: January 1953-June 1954 Captain Peter W. Gretton: June 1954-December 1955 Commodore Joseph C.C. Henley: December 1955-December 1957 Captain David G. Goodwin: December 1957-May 1959 Commodore Ian F. M. Newnham: May 1959-June 1961 Captain John G.B. Cooke: June 1961-July 1963 Captain Robert H. Graham: July 1963-July 1965 Captain Douglas M.H. Stobie: July 1965-January 1968 Captain James G. Jungius: January 1968-May 1970 Captain Robert S. Browning: May 1970-August 1972 Captain Keith C.D. Watson: August 1972-October 1974 Captain Walter E.B. Godsal: October 1974-October 1976 Captain Noel Bearne: October 1976-October 1978 Captain David B. Nolan: October 1978-January 1981 Captain Norman R.D. King: January 1981-January 1983 Captain Jeremy B.D. Read: January 1983-July 1985 183

Captain David Hart Dyke: July 1985-1987 Captain Bryan Burns: 1987-August 1989 Captain Anthony D.E. Pender-Cudlipp: August 1989-

Commodore A. Michael Gregory: 1994-1997 Commodore Derek J. Anthony: 1997-2000 Commodore Nicholas H.L. Harris: 2000-2003 Commodore C.Joseph Gass: 2003-May 2006 Commodore Alan R.C. Bennett: May 2006-June 2007 Commodore Steven C. Ramm: June 2007-February 2010 Commodore Eric Fraser: February 2010-September 2013 Commodore Richard M. Allen: September 2013-July 2016 Commodore Martin J. Connell: July 2016-November 2018 Commodore Andrew Betton: November 2018-September 2019 Commodore Philip D. Nash: September 2019-

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Naval Attache, France (until 1940 and from 1945):

Captain Henry B. Jackson: November 1897-July 1899 Captain Charles L. Ottley: July 1899-June 1904 Captain Frederick R.W. Morgan: June 1904-June 1907 Captain Edward H. F. Heaton-Ellis: June 1907-February 1911 Captain W. A. Howard Kelly: February 1911-March 1914 Captain Michael H. Hodges: March 1914-September 1915 Captain Fitzmaurice Acton: September 1915-October 1917 Captain the Hon. Alexander R.M. Ramsay: July 1919-September 1922 Captain James M. Pipon: July 1925-October 1928 Captain Guy W. Hallifax: October 1928-October 1931 Captain John U.P.Fitzgerald: October 1931-October 1934 Captain Charles F.Hammill: October 1934-January 1938 Captain Cedric S.Holland: January 1938-April 1940 Rear-Admiral Richard Shelley: March 1945-January 1948 Captain Clarence D. Howard-Johnston: January 1948-May 1950 Captain Kenneth L. Mackintosh: May 1950-December 1952 Captain Edward Hale: December 1952-December 1954 Captain Geoffrey T. Lambert: December 1954-January 1957 Captain Maurice K. Cavenagh-Mainwaring: January 1957-May 1960 Captain Peter M. Compston: May 1960-July 1962 Captain Christopher B.H. Wake-Walker: July 1962-August 1964 Captain David A. Loram: August 1964-February 1967 Captain Harry R. Keate: February 1967-March 1969 Captain Peter A. Bence-Trower: March 1969-December 1970 Captain C.R. Peter C. Branson: December 1970-February 1973 Captain Lionel A. Bird: February 1973-July 1975 Captain Vincent M. Howard: July 1975-January 1978 Captain William S. Gueterbock: January 1978-February 1980 Captain Christopher S. Argles: February 1980-February 1983 Captain Andrew E. Thomson: February 1983-March 1985 Captain Anthony Morton: March 1985-September 1987 Captain Gerald M. Booth: September 1987-March 1990 Captain Jonathan G.F. Cooke: March 1990-1992 Captain M.A. Johnson: 1992-1995 Captain D.J. Thomson: 1995-199 Captain Allan A.S. Adair: 1998-2002

Captain Didier Lombard: 2004-2005 185

Naval Attache, Japan (until 1941 and from 1952):

Captain Ernest C. T. Troubridge: September 1901-April 1904 Captain William C. Pakenham: April 1904-May 1906 Captain Thomas Jackson: May 1906-? 1907 Captain Charles Dundas of Dundas: March 1908-September1910 Captain Sir Douglas E.R. Brownrigg, Bt.: September 1910-October 1912 Captain the Hon. Hubert G. Brand: October 1912-December 1914 Captain Edward H. Rymer: December 1914-October 1918 Rear-Admiral James C. Ley: October 1918-March 1920 Captain John P.R. Marriott: March 1920-March 1922 Captain Ragnar M.Colvin: March 1922-January 1924 Captain Guy C.C.Royle: January 1924-December 1926 Captain Cloudesley V. Robinson: December 1926-December 1929 Captain Montague G.B. Legge: December 1929-January 1933 Captain John G.P.Vivian: January 1933-January 1936 Captain H.Bernard H.Rawlings: January 1936-December 1938 Captain Desmond N.C.Tufnell: December 1938-December 1941 Captain Michael N. Tufnell: July 1952-May 1954 Captain Francis P. Baker: May 1954-October 1956 Captain William W. Muir: October 1956-October 1958 Captain Denis F. Chilton: October 1958-December 1960 Captain Richard D. Ritchie: December 1960-February 1963 Captain Alastair J. Petrie-Hay: February 1963-October 1965 Captain John E. Dyer-Smith: October 1965-December 1967 Captain John B. Robathan: December 1967-December 1969 Captain Harold J. Abraham: December 1969-June 1972 Captain Edward R. Anson: June 1972-July 1974 Captain Colin McK. Little: July 1974-February 1977 Captain Gilbert A.F. Hitchens: February 1977-February 1979 Captain Robert A. Isaac: February 1979-January 1981 Captain Michael Forrest: January 1981-1984 Captain Robert H.S. Thompson: 1984-November 1987 Captain Nicholas J. Tobin: November 1987-June 1990 Captain Charles McC. Crawford: June 1990-December 1992 Captain Anthony P. Masterton-Smith: December 1992-1995 Captain Neil D.V. Robertson: 1995- Captain James A. Boyd: Captain Simon Chelton: August 2002-August 2007

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Naval Attache, Germany/West Germany (until 1914 and from 1936 until 1939):

Captain Arthur W. Ewart: October 1900-June 1903 Captain Reginald A. Allenby: June 1903-February 1906 Captain Philip W. Dumas: February 1906-August 1908 Captain Herbert L. Heath: August 1908-August 1910 Captain Hugh D.R. Watson: August 1910-October 1913 Captain Wilfred Henderson: October 1913-August 1914 Captain Thomas H. Troubridge: July 1936-July 1939 Captain R.ichard Gatehouse: September 1956-November 1957 Captain Evelyn F. Hamilton-Meikle: November 1957-April 1960 Captain Bernard D.O. MacIntyre: April 1960-May 1962 Captain C. Courtenay Anderson: May 1962-November 1964 Captain Eric M. Brown: November 1964-May 1967 Captain John A. Marrack: May 1967-July 1969 Captain John M.H. Cox: July 1969-February 1972 Captain Charles V. Howard: February 1972-January 1975 Captain Brian J. Williams: January 1975-July 1977 Captain Brian R. Outhwaite: July 1977-December 1979 Captain Daniel J. Bradby: December 1979-January 1982 Captain Roger M. Venables: January 1982-March 1985 Captain Michael Bickley: March 1985-1987 Captain William K. Hutchison: 1987-February 1990 Captain John McLees: February 1990-1992 Captain R.St.J. Bishop: 1992-1995 Captain M.D. Booth: 1995- Captain Christopher V. Ellison: 199 - Captain Stephen R. Gosden: 200 -2006

187

Naval Attache, Italy (until 1940 and from 194 :

Captain Mark E.F. Kerr: June 1903-January 1905 Captain Roger J.B. Keyes: January 1905-1908

Captain William H. D. Boyle: June 1913-November 1915 Captain Dennis A.H. Larking: November 1915-1919 Captain Charles D. Burke: February 1926-April 1928 Captain Richard H.L. Bevan: April 1928-April 1931 Captain Robert B. Ramsay: April 1931-April 1934 Captain Herbert Pott: April 1934-August 1936 Captain Robert H. Bevan: August 1936-January 1939 Captain Sir Philip W. Bowyer-Smith, Bt.: January 1939-1940

Captain John D. Shaw-Hamilton: April 1947-May 1949 Captain Nigel S. Henderson: May 1949-July 1951 Captain Christopher D. Bonham-Carter: July 1951-July 1953 Captain Antony B. Cole: July 1953-October 1955 Captain Colin D. Madden: October 1955-October 1957 Captain John E. Scotland: October 1957-November 1959 Captain Samuel R. Le H. Lombard-Hobson: November 1959-November 1961 Captain Thomas N. Catlow: November 1961-November 1963 Captain Michael A.J. Hennell: November 1963-May 1966 Captain Alexander H. Swann: May 1966 –October 1967 Captain Stephen A. Hammick: October 1967-November 1970 Captain Joseph J. Phillips: November 1970-June 1973 Captain Charles E.T. Baker: June 1973-June 1975 Captain Malcolm A. George: June 1975-October 1977 Captain Gordon J. Byers: October 1977-May 1980 Captain Christopher T. Codrington: May 1980-1982 Captain Edmund H.M. Orme: 1982-May 1985 Captain Richard F. Channon: May 1985-November 1987 Captain Nicholas R. Harris: November 1987-June 1990 Captain William C. McKnight: June 1990-

Captain John H. Hollidge: 200 -

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Naval Attache, Russia :

Captain the Hon. Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: March 1902-November 1905 Captain the Hon. Victor A. Stanley: November 1905-November 1908 Captain Aubrey C.H. Smith: November 1908-April 1912 Captain Richard I.A. Sarell: June 1949-October 1951 Captain A.A. Fitzroy Talbot: October 1951-October 1953 Captain Geoffrey M. Bennett: October 1953-November 1955 Captain Adrian P.W. Northey: November 1955-November 1957 Captain Hugh R.B. Newton: November 1957-June 1960 Captain John F.R. Dreyer: June 1960-May 1962 Captain Jack A. Templeton-Cotill: May 1962-April 1964 Captain Frank S. Hope: April 1964-May 1966 Captain Laurence W.H. Taylor: May 1966-May 1968 Captain Sefton R. Sandford: May 1968-June 1970 Captain Henry M. Ellis: June 1970-October 1972 Captain Gerard Hayne: October 1972-October 1974 Captain Richard J.F. Turner: October 1974-March 1977 Captain Peter H. Coward: March 1977-June 1979 Captain Christopher J. Ward: June 1979-1982 Captain A. Bruce Richardson: 1982-1983 Captain John Harvey-Samuel: 1983-1984 Captain John A. Marshall: 1984-1986 Captain John E. Dykes: 1986-January 1989 Captain Christopher J. Meyer: January 1989-1990

Captain Jon T. Holloway: 200 -

189

Naval Attache, The Netherlands (until 1940):

Captain Brian B. Schofield: 1939-February 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir Gerald L.C. Dickens: February-May 1940

Captain Francis J. Cartwright: February 1954-May 1958 Captain Dennis Sanderson: May 1958-November 1959 Captain Edward H. Lee: November 1959-January 1962 Captain Arfor R.E. Bishop: January 1962-August 1964 Captain Peter E.C. Berger: August 1964-December 1966 Captain Stanley W. Clayden: December 1966-March 1969 Captain Richard D. Franklin: March 1969-April 1971 Captain Peter J. Shaw: April 1971-June 1973 Captain Peter C. Prince: June 1973-July 1975 Captain John R. Hill: July 1975-July 1977 Captain Derek A.P. O’Reilly: July 1977-November 1979 Captain David N. O’Sullivan: November 1979-November 1981 Captain Alan A. Hensher; November 1981-November 1983 Captain Barry J. Clarke: November 1983-1986 Captain R. Neil Blair: 1986-October 1989 Captain Michael Bickley: November 1989-

190

Naval Attache, Greece (until 1941):

Captain Herbert A. Packer: January 1937-July 1939 Captain George E.M. O’ Donnell: July-August 1939 Captain Harold F. Nalder: August 1939-1940 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Turle: May 1940-April 1941 Captain Mervyn R.G. Wingfield: February 1956-July 1957 Captain George B. Barstow: July 1957-July 1959 Captain David B.N. Mellis: July 1959-May 1961 Captain Robert E. Lloyd: May 1961-June 1963 Captain Kenneth H. Martin: June 1963-August 1965 Captain G. Roger Villar: August 1965-April 1968 Captain Larratt C. Darling: April 1968-February 1971 Captain John A.F. Lawson: February 1971-June 1973 Captain Anthony M.G. Pearson: June 1973-June 1975 Captain Derek G. Mather: June 1975-June 1977 Captain Peter J. Williams: June 1977-August 1980 Captain David S. Dobson: August 1980-June 1982 Captain R. Neil Blair: June 1982-June 1985 Captain Colin L. MacGregor: June 1985-December 1987 Captain Richard G. Evans: December 1987-

Captain John R. Willis: 200 -

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Naval Attache, Argentina (until 1982):

Captain Gerard A. Wells: June 1923-February 1925 Captain James S.C. Salmond February 1925-August 1927 Captain St. Aubyn B. Wake: August 1927-August 1930 Captain Edward de F. Renouf: August 1930-July 1933 Captain Ronald H.C. Hallifax: July 1933-December 1935 Captain Philip J. Mack: December 1935-November 1938 Captain Henry W.U. McCall: November 1938-May 1940 Rear-Admiral James S.C. Salmond: May 1940-June 1942 Rear-Admiral Herbert A. Forster: June 1942-March 1945 Captain the Hon. Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin: March 1945-March 1947 Captain Deric D.H. Holland-Martin: March 1947-April 1949 Captain Conrad B. Alers-Hankey: April 1949-September 1951 Captain Reginald E. Terry: September 1951-September 1953 Captain Peter J. Hill-Norton: September 1953-October 1955 Captain Brian D. Gallie: October 1955-March 1958 Captain Desmond Vincent-Jones: March 1958-June 1960 Captain Frank D. Holford: June 1960-September 1962 Captain Percival E. I. Bailey: September 1962-July 1965 Captain Peter W. Stewart: July 1965-August 1967 Captain Gerald D. Van Someren: August 1967-December 1970 Captain John Hood: December 1970-November 1972 Captain Stanley G. Morgan: November 1972-October 1974 Captain John Thomas: October 1974-October 1976 Captain Daniel S. Leggatt: October 1976-November 1978 Captain Bryan E. Neave: November 1978-February 1981 Captain Julian J. Mitchell: February 1981-May 1982

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Naval Adviser, Canada :

Captain Ottokar H.M. St.J. Steiner: 1960-1962 Captain Terence L. Martin: 1962-1966 Captain the Hon. David P. Seely: 1966-1967 Captain Peter Maslen: 1967-1969 Captain Henry E. Howard: 1969-1970 Captain Henry D.S. Waite: 1970-September 1972 Captain William R.J. Mylne: September 1972-September 1974 Captain John M. Webster: September 1974-August 1976 Captain Alan A. Hensher: August 1976-April 1978 Captain John J. Streatfield-James: April 1978-September 1980 Captain David F. Watts: September 1980-August 1982 Captain Michael C. Powys-Maurice: August 1982-August 1984 Captain Allan J.B. Laybourne: August 1984-August 1986 Captain Anthony K. Potter: August 1986-1988 Captain Jeremy J. Howard: 1988-1990 Captain Paul J. Bootherstone: 1990-

Naval Adviser, India :

Captain Harry D. Ellis: Captain Frank W. Watson: 1962-1964 Captain Cyril J. Cunningham: 1964-1966 Captain William G. McC. Burn: 1966-1968 Captain Denis W. Sherwood: 1968-1970 Captain James A. Hans-Hamilton: 1970-December 1971 Captain David C.R. Walters: December 1971-January 1974 Captain Derek F. Robbins: January 1974-July 1976 Captain Peter N. Hamilton-Jones: July 1976-August 1978 Captain Philip W.S. Stearns: August 1978-August 1980 Captain William W.F. Chatterton Dickson: August 1980-July 1982 Captain Graham Meredith: July 1982-1985 Captain William M. Howard: 1985-1987 Captain Brian J. Adams: November 1987-1990 Captain Jonathan P. Cardale: 1990-

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Naval Adviser, Australia :

Captain John W. Collett: 1960-1962 Captain Thomas W. Stocker: 1962-1964 Captain Stephen F. Berthon: 1964-November 1966 Captain Michael Hayward-Butt: November 1966-1969 Captain Laurence W.H. Taylor: 1969-May 1971 Captain Vernon C. Merry: May 1971-May 1974 Captain George M.F. Vallings: May 1974-August 1976 Captain Peter A. Pinkster: August 1976-December 1978 Captain Ronald F.G. Laughton: December 1978-February 1981 Captain Anthony Short: February 1981-April 1983 Commodore Brian W. Turner: April 1983-December 1985 Commodore Robert M. Lawson: December 1985-February 1988 Commodore David M. Oddie: February 1988-March 1990 Commodore Anthony C.G. Wolstenholme: March 1990-October 1992 Commodore Brian J.Adams: October 1992-January 1996 Commodore Peter C. Wykeham-Martin: January 1996-February 1998 Commodore A. Jonathan Lyall: February 1998-May 2001 Commodore Graham J. Wiltshire: May 2001-May 2004 Commodore Robert T. Love: May 2004-2006 Brigadier Jeremy M.F. Robbins: 200 -October 2010 Brigadier William J. Taylor: October 2010–February 2014 Commodore Richard L. Powell: February 2014-January 2017 Brigadier Andrew S.D. Harrison: January 2017-January 2019 Brigadier T. Marcus L. Simson: January 2019-

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(b) SQUADRONS

INDEX:

Aircraft Carrier Squadron, 3rd/Heavy Squadron, Commanding: page 204 Amphibious Forces, Far East Fleet, Commodore: page 222 Amphibious Warfare, Commodore/Amphibious Task Group, Commander/U.K. (Response Force) Task Group, Commander: page 219 Battle Squadrons- 1 st , Commanding: page 198 Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command: page 199 2 nd , Commanding: page 200 Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command: page 201 3 rd , Commanding: page 201 Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command: page 202 4 th , Commanding: page 202 Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command: page 202 5 th , Commanding: page 202 6 th , Commanding: page 203 7 th , Commanding: page 203 8 th , Commanding: page 203 Battlecruiser Squadrons- Battlecruiser Squadron, Commanding: page 203 1 st , Commanding: page 204 2 nd , Commanding: page 204 3 rd , Commanding: page 204 Carrier Strike Group, Commander: page 219 Combined Joint Operations, Deputy Director: page 220 Cruiser Squadrons, Commanding-- Armoured, pre-1918- 1 st /Training Squadron/Cruiser Squadron: page 206 2 nd : page 207 3 rd : page 207 4 th /Particular Service Squadron: page 207 5 th : page 208 6 th : page 208 7 th : page 208 9 th : page 208 10 th : page 208 195

11 th : page 209 12 th : page 209 Light Cruiser/Cruiser Squadrons post 1918, Commanding- 1 st : page 209 2nd : page 210 3 rd : page 210 4th : page 211 5th : page 212 6th : page 212 7th : page 213 8th : page 213 9th : page 213 10 th : page 213 11 th : page 213 12 th : page 214 15 th : page 214 18 th : page 214 Destroyer Flotillas/Squadrons, Commanding- 1 st : page 224 2 nd : page 225 3 rd : page 226 4 th : page 227 5 th : page 228 6 th : page 230 7 th : page 231 8 th : page 232 9 th : page 233 10 th : page 233 11 th : page 233 12 th : page 233 13 th : page 233 14 th : page 234 15 th : page 234 16 th : page 234 17 th : page 234 18 th : page 235 19 th : page 235 20 th : page 235 21 st : page 235 22 nd : page 236 196

23 rd : page 236 24 th : page 236 25 th : page 236 26 th : page 236 27 th : page 236 Devonport Flotilla, Commodore: page 221 Divisions, 3 rd and 4 th , Home Fleet, Commanding: page 198 Eastern Mediterranean Squadron/Aegean Squadron, Commanding: page 223 Escort Squadrons, Commanding- 21 st : page 242 22 nd : page 242 23 rd : page 242 24 th : page 243 25 th : page 243 26 th : page 243 27 th : page 243 28 th : page 243 29 th : page 243 30 th : page 243 Faslane Flotilla, Commodore: page 221 Fishery Protection Squadron, Commanding: page 245 Flotillas, Flag Officer- 1 st (see Home Fleet Destroyers) 2 nd : page 217 3 rd : page 217 Flying Squadron/Detatched Squadron/Particular Service Squadron, Commanding: page 197 Frigate Squadrons, Commanding- 1 st : page 234 2 nd : page 235 3 rd : page 236 4 th : page 237 5 th : page 238 6 th : page 239 7 th : page 240 8 th : page 241 9 th : page 241 Heavy Squadron (see 3 rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron)

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Home Fleet, Destroyers, Commanding/Flag Officer, Flotillas/Flag Officer, 1 st Flotilla/Flag Officer, Surface Flotilla: page 215 Chief of Staff/Deputy Flag Officer:` page 216 Maritime Component, U.K., Commander: page 220 Maritime Forces, U.K., Commander: page 218 Deputy Commander: page 218 Mediterranean Fleet, Destroyers, Commanding: page 222 Pacific Fleet, Destroyers, Commanding: page 222 Particular Service (see Flying Squadron and 4 th Cruiser Squadron) Portland/Plymouth, Destroyers, Captain: page 246 Portsmouth, Destroyers, Captain: page 245 Portsmouth Flotilla, Commodore: page 221 Strike Force (South), Deputy Commander: page 220 Submarine Flotllas/Squadrons: 1 st : pages 246-247 2nd : page 248 3 rd : page 249 4 th : page 250 5 th : page 250 6 th : page 251 7 th : page 251 10 th : page 251 Surface Flotilla (see Home Fleet Destroyers) Task Group, U.K., Commander: page 218 Training Squadrons, Commanding: page 223 2 nd : page 244 3 rd : page 244

Commander, Flying Squadron (from 1869 until 1870; Detached Squadron (from 1870 until 1877 and from 1880 until 1882; Particular Service Squadron in 1896):

Rear-Admiral Geoffrey T.P. Hornby: June 1869-December 1870 Rear-Admiral F. Beauchamp P. Seymour: December 1870-May 1872 Rear-Admiral Frederick A. Campbell: May 1872-December 1873 Rear-Admiral George G. Randolph: December 1873-May 1875 Rear-Admiral Rowley Lambert: May 1875-May 1877 Vice-Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam: September 1880-December 1881 Rear-Admiral Sir Francis W. Sullivan: December 1881-October 1882 Rear-Admiral Alfred T. Dale: January-November 1896 198

Commander, 3 rd and 4 th Divisions, Home Fleet :

Vice-Admiral Sir George Neville: March 1909-March 1911 Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: March-December 1911 Vice-Admiral Frederick T. Hamilton: December 1911-May 1912

Rear-Admiral, 3 rd and 4 th Divisions:

Rear-Admiral T. Martyn Jerram: March 1909-August 1910 Rear-Admiral W. Lowther Grant: August 1910-November 1911 Rear-Admiral Charles Dundas of Dundas: November 1911-May 1912

Commanding, 1st Battle Squadron(and Second-in-Command, Atlantic Fleet , 1919-1924, and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet , 1926-1937 and 1939):

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Stanley C. J.Colville: June 1912-June 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly: June-December 1914 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: December 1914-December 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden: December 1916-April 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney R. Fremantle: May 1919-May 1921 Vice-Admiral Sir William C.M. Nicholson: May 1921-October 1922 Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: October 1922-October 1924 Rear-Admiral William W.Fisher: October 1924-September 1925 Rear-Admiral Cecil M.Staveley: September 1925-March 1926 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael H. Hodges: March 1926-May 1927 Vice-Admiral Sir John D. Kelly: May 1927-April 1929 Vice-Admiral W. A. Howard Kelly: April 1929-October 1930 Vice-Admiral Sir Wiliam W.Fisher: October 1930-April 1932 Vice-Admiral Sir Roger R.C. Backhouse: April 1932-May 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles M. Forbes: May 1934-August 1936 Vice-Admiral T. Hugh Binney: August 1936-June 1938 Rear-Admiral Ralph Leatham: June 1938-January 1939 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Layton: January-November 1939 Rear-Admiral Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: June-October 1940 Vice-Admiral John C.Tovey: October-December 1940 Rear-Admiral H. Bernard H. Rawlings: December 1940-May 1941 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: May 1941-July 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur J. Power: December 1943-November 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir H. Bernard H. Rawlings: December 1944-October 1945 Vice-Admiral John H. Edelsten: October 1945-February 1946 199

Rear-Admiral/Second in Command, 1 st Division/Battle Squadron (until 1929/1930):

Rear-Admiral Charles J. Briggs: March 1909-January 1910 Rear-Admiral F. C. Doveton Sturdee: January 1910-January 1911 Rear-Admiral Richard H. Peirse: January 1911-January 1912 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Madden: January-December 1912 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: December 1912-December 1913 Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas: December 1913-August 1915 Rear-Admiral Ernest F.A. Gaunt: August 1915-June 1916 Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff: June-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Sir William C.M. Nicholson: December 1916-April 1919 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor A Stanley: April 1919-March 1920 Rear-Admiral Henry M.Doughty: March 1920-May 1921 Rear-Admiral Rudolf W.Bentinck: May 1921-May 1922 Rear-Admiral Arthur A.M.Duff: May 1922-May 1923 Rear-Admiral W.A.Howard Kelly: May 1923-May 1924 Rear-Admiral William H.D. Boyle: May-October 1924 Rear-Admiral Cecil M.Staveley: March-November 1926 Rear-Admiral David T.Norris: November 1926-November 1927 Rear-Admiral Bernard St.G.Collard: November 1927-March 1928 Rear-Admiral William M. Kerr: March 1928-May 1929 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Reginald A. R.Plunkett- Ernle-Erle-Drax: May-November 1929 Rear-Admiral H. Bernard H. Rawlings: October-December 1940 Rear-Admiral Charles S. Daniel: June-? 1945

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Commanding, 2nd Division/Battle Squadron(and Second-in-Command, Home Fleet ,1932-39):

Vice-Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe: May-December 1912 Vice-Admiral Sir George J. S. Warrender, Bt.: December 1912-December 1915 Vice-Admiral Sir T. Martyn Jerram: December 1915-December 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir John M. de Robeck: December 1916-March 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver: March-April 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur C. Leveson: April 1919-October 1920 Vice-Admiral Sir William C.M.Nicholson: October 1920-May 1921 Disbanded: 1921-1924 Under command of Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet: 1924-1929 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Reginald A.R.Plunkett- Ernle-Erle-Drax: November 1929-April 1930 Rear-Admiral Charles J.C.Little: April 1930-April 1931 Rear-Admiral Wilfred F. French: April 1931-December 1932 Rear-Admiral Ragnar M. Colvin: December 1932-December 1933 Rear-Admiral Max K. Horton: December 1933-July 1935 Rear-Admiral Charles G. Ramsey: July 1935-August 1937 Vice-Admiral Lachlan D. I. MacKinnon: August 1937-January 1939 Rear-Admiral Lancelot E. Holland: January-September 1939 Rear-Admiral H. Evelyn C. Blagrove: September-October 1939 Vice-Admiral Sir Alban T.B. Curteis: June 1941-June 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser: June 1942-May 1943 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry R. Moore: June 1943-June 1944

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Rear-Admiral/Second in Command, 2 nd Battle Squadron :

Rear-Admiral James Startin: March-October 1909 Rear-Admiral Edward E. Bradford: October 1909-October 1910 Rear-Admiral George E. Patey: October 1910-October 1911 Rear-Admiral Herbert G. King-Hall: October 1911-October 1912 Rear-Admiral Rosslyn E. Wemyss: October 1912-October 1913 Rear-Admiral Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot, Bt.: October 1913-January 1915 Rear-Admiral Arthur C. Leveson: January 1915-December 1916 Rear-Admiral William E. Goodenough: December 1916-April 1919 Rear-Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker: April 1919-April 1920 Rear-Admiral Edward B. Kiddle: April 1920-May 1921 Rear-Admiral William H.D.Boyle: October 1924-May 1925 Rear-Admiral Francis H. Mitchell: May 1925-March 1926

Commanding, 3rd Battle Squadron(and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet, 1924-26; transferred to Atlantic Fleet 1926; disbanded 1931):

Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney: April 1912-July 1913 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly: July 1913-June 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Edward E. Bradford: June 1914-May 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir John M. De Robeck: May-November 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert L. Heath: November 1916-September 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. de Chair: September 1917-April 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas R. L. Nicholson: April-October 1919 Disbanded: October 1919-October 1924 Rear-Admiral Hugh D. R. Watson: November 1924-April 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael H. Hodges: April 1925-March 1926 Rear-Admiral Francis H. Mitchell: March-May 1926 Rear-Admiral Roger R.C. Backhouse: May 1926-May 1927 Vice-Admiral Percival H. Hall-Thompson: May 1927-May 1928 Rear-Admiral John M. Casement: May 1928-May 1929 Rear-Admiral Henry K. Kitson: May 1929-May 1930 Rear-Admiral G. Francis Hyde: May 1930-May 1931 Rear-Admiral Lancelot E. Holland: August 1939-January 1940 Rear-Admiral Stuart S. Bonham-Carter: January 1940-January 1942 Vice-Admiral W.E. Campbell Tait: January-February 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis: February 1942-February 1943 Vice-Admiral Harold T.C. Walker: December 1944-November 1945 202

Rear-Admiral/Second-in-Command, 3 rd Battle Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Cecil F. Thursby: August 1912-August 1913 Rear-Admiral Montague E. Browning: August 1913-July 1915 Rear-Admiral Sydney R. Fremantle: July 1915-March 1916 Rear-Admiral Cecil F. Dampier: March 1916-March 1917 Rear-Admiral Douglas R.L. Nicholson: March-September 1917

Commanding, 4th Battle Squadron(and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet , 1919-1924; renumbered as 3 rd Battle Squadron November 1924):

Vice-Admiral Sir Charles J. Briggs: July 1912-July 1914 Vice-Admiral Sir Douglas A. Gamble: July 1914-February 1915 Admiral Sir F.C. Doveton Sturdee, Bt.: February 1915-February 1918 Vice-Admiral Sir Montague E. Browning: February 1918-January 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour: January 1919-September 1920 Rear-Admiral Richard Webb: September 1920-September 1922 Rear-Admiral John D.Kelly: September 1922-August 1923 Rear-Admiral Hugh D. R. Watson: August 1923-November 1924

Rear-Admiral/Second In Command, 4 th Battle Squadron :

Rear-Admiral T. Martyn Jerram: May-August 1912 Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff: October 1914-June 1916 Rear-Admiral Ernest F.A. Gaunt: June 1916-June 1917 Rear-Admiral Roger J.B. Keyes: June-September 1917 Rear-Admiral Douglas R.L. Nicholson: September 1917-April 1919

Commanding, 5th Battle Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Bernard Currey: August 1914-February 1915 Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas: August 1915-October 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur C. Leveson: October 1918-1919

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Commanding, 6th Battle Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Stuart Nicholson: November 1914-? 1915

Commanding, 7th Battle Squadron :

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E. Bethell: August-September 1914

Commanding, 8th Battle Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Henry Loftus Tottenham: August 1914

Commanding, Battlecruiser Squadron(and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet , 1937- 1939):

Rear-Admiral Lewis Bayly: January-March 1913 Vice-Admiral Sir David R. Beatty: March 1913-1914 Vice-Admiral Sir William C. Pakenham: December 1916-1919 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F.Oliver: December 1918-March 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir Roger J. B.Keyes: March 1919-March 1921 Rear-Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan: March 1921-May 1923 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field: May 1923-April 1925 Vice-Admiral Cyril T. M. Fuller: April 1925-May 1927 Vice-Admiral Frederic C. Dreyer: May 1927-May 1929 Vice-Admiral A. Dudley P. R. Pound: May 1929-April 1931 Vice-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson: April 1931-August 1932 Vice-Admiral William M. James: August 1932-August 1934 Vice-Admiral Sidney R. Bailey: August 1934-August 1936 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake: August 1936-July 1937 Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham: July 1937-August 1938 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Layton: August 1938-January 1939 Vice-Admiral William J. Whitworth: June 1939-May 1941 Vice-Admiral Lancelot E. Holland: May 1941

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Commanding, 1st Battlecruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Sir Osmond de B. Brock: February 1915-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Richard F. Phillimore: December 1916-March 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver: March 1918-March 1919

Commanding, 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Sir Archibald G.H.W. Moore: January-February 1915 Rear-Admiral Sir George E. Patey: February-March 1915 Rear-Admiral Sir William C. Pakenham: March 1915-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Arthur C. Leveson: December 1916-September 1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey: September 1918-March 1919

Commanding, 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Horace L. A. Hood: May 1915-May 1916

Commanding, 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron(Heavy Squadron from 1952 until 1954):

Rear-Admiral Maurice J. Mansergh: July 1948-September 1949 Vice-Admiral Charles E. Lambe: September 1949-January 1951 Rear-Admiral Caspar John: January 1951-July 1952 Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett: July 1952-December 1953 Rear-Admiral Walter T. Couchman: December 1953-1954

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Flag Officer, Air and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet:

Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil H.J. Harcourt: January 1947-January 1948 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas H. Troubridge: January-December 1948 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant: December 1948-April 1950 Vice-Admiral Guy Grantham: April 1950-November 1951 Vice-Admiral Ralph A. B. Edwards: November 1951-December 1952 Vice-Admiral William W. Davis: December 1952-February 1954 Vice-Admiral J. Peter L. Reid: February 1954-August 1955 Vice-Admiral Maxwell Richmond: August 1955-October 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir Robin L.F. Durnford-Slater: October 1956-1958

Flag Officer, Air, Pacific Fleet :

Rear-Admiral Denis W. Boyd: February 1942-December 1943 Rear-Admiral Clement Moody: December 1943-November 1944 Rear-Admiral Reginald H. Portal: November 1944-March 1946 Rear-Admiral Charles H.L. Woodhouse: March-July 1946 Rear-Admiral A.Robin M. Bridge: July 1946-February 1947 Vice-Admiral George E. Creasy: February 1947-1948

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Commanding, (Armoured/Heavy) Cruiser Squadrons(Pre-1914 and First World War):

1st Cruiser Squadron (Training Squadron until October 1899; Cruiser Squadron from 1899 until 1905)

Commodore Robert O.’B. Fitzroy: September 1885-November 1886 Commodore Albert Hastings Markham: November 1886-November 1889 Commodore Armand T. Powlett: November 1889-August 1891 Commodore Lewis A. Beaumont: August 1891-June 1893 Rear-Admiral Robert H. Harris: June 1893-April 1895 Commodore George L. Atkinson-Willes: April 1895-October 1897 Commodore Edmund S. Poe: October 1897-October 1900 Commodore Alfred L.Winsloe: October 1900-February 1901 Temporarily disbanded: 1901 Commodore Alfred L. Winsloe: November 1901-November 1902 Rear-Admiral Wilmot H. Fawkes: November 1902-November 1904 Rear-Admiral Edmund S. Poe: November 1904-July 1905 Rear-Admiral George Neville: July 1905-July 1907 Rear-Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott: July 1907-September 1908 Rear-Admiral Charles H. Adair: September 1908-February 1909 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Stanley C. J. Colville: February 1909-February1911 Rear-Admiral Lewis Bayly: February 1911-January 1913 Rear-Admiral Ernest C.T. Troubridge: January 1913-September 1914 Rear-Admiral Sir Archibald G. H.W. Moore: November 1914-January 1915 Rear-Admiral Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot, Bt.: January 1915-May 1916 Vice-Admiral Trevylyan D.W.Napier: July 1917-1918

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2nd Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: February 1905-February 1907 Rear-Admiral Charles H. Adair: February 1907-Se[ptember 1908 Rear-Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott: September 1908-February 1909 Rear-Admiral Robert S. Lowry: February 1909-November 1910 Rear-Admiral Sir George J.S. Warrender, Bt.: November 1910-December 1912 Rear-Admiral Sir F.C. Doveton Sturdee: December 1912-December 1913 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Madden: December 1913-July 1914 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe: July 1914-May 1916 Rear-Admiral Herbert L. Heath: May-November 1916 Rear-Admiral Sydney R. Fremantle: January-December 1917 Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald G.O. Tupper: December 1917-February 1918 Rear-Admiral Edward F. Bruen: February 1918-February 1919

3rd Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, Bt.: June 1902-November 1904 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Hedworth Lambton: November 1904-November 1906 Rear-Admiral Sir Henry D. Barry: November 1906-October 1908 Rear-Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson: October 1908-March 1909 Rear-Admiral F.C. Doveton Sturdee: December 1911-December 1912 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Madden: December 1912-December 1913 Rear-Admiral William C. Pakenham: December 1913-March 1915 Rear-Admiral W.Lowther Grant: March-July 1915 Rear-Admiral Montague E. Browning: July 1915-September 1916

4th Cruiser Squadron from 1905 until 1907 known also as the Particular Service Squadron and under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies ):

Rear-Admiral Frederick S. Inglefield: February 1907-February 1909 Rear-Admiral Arthur M. Farquhar: February 1909-February 1911 Rear-Admiral Edward E. Bradford: February 1911-February 1913 Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher G.F. M. Cradock: February 1913-November 1914

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5th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral George A.Callaghan: April 1907-November 1908 Rear-Admiral Robert S. Lowry: November 1908-February 1909 Rear-Admiral Frederick T. Hamilton: February 1909-February 1911 Rear-Admiral Cecil Burney: February-December 1911 Rear-Admiral F.C. Doveton Sturdee: December 1911-May 1912 Rear-Admiral Archibald P.Stoddart: August 1914-May 1915

6th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson: March 1909-October 1910 Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas A. Gamble: October 1910-January 1913 Rear-Admiral W. Lowther Grant: August 1914-February 1915

7th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Henry H. Campbell: August-October 1914 Rear-Admiral Arthur W.Waymouth: January-April 1915 Rear-Admiral Henry Loftus Tottenham: April-October 1915 Rear-Admiral Herbert L. Heath: October 1915-June 1916

9th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral John M. de Robeck: August 1914-February 1915 Rear-Admiral Sir Archibald G.H.W.Moore: February 1915-August 1916 Rear-Admiral Sydney R.Fremantle: August-December 1916 Rear-Admiral T.Dawson L. Sheppard: December 1916-January 1919

10 th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. de Chair: August 1914-March 1916 Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald G.O.Tupper: March 1916-December 1917

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11 th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Robert S. Phipps Hornby: August-September 1914 Rear-Admiral Henry Loftus Tottenham: September 1914-April 1915 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Horace L.A. Hood: April-May 1915

12 th Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Rosslyn E. Wemyss: August 1914-February 1915

Commanding, First World War Light Cruiser Squadrons and Cruiser Squadrons post 1922:

1st Cruiser Squadron/Light Cruiser Squadron (until 1945 and from 1946 until 1951):

Commodore William E. Goodenough: July 1913-January 1915 Commodore Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: January 1915-July 1917 Rear-Admiral Sir Walter H.Cowan: July 1917-July 1920 Rear-Admiral Sir James A. Fergusson: July 1920-April 1922 Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir Hubert G.Brand: April 1922-October 1924 Rear-Admiral Arthur K.Waistell: October 1924-October 1926 Rear-Admiral William H.D. Boyle: October 1926-October 1928 Rear-Admiral Henry W. Parker: October 1928-March 1930 Rear-Admiral Joseph C.W.Henley: March 1930-April 1932 Rear-Admiral George K. Chetwode: April 1932-June 1933 Vice-Admiral John K. im Thurn: June 1933-July 1935 Vice-Admiral Max K. Horton: July 1935-October 1936 Vice-Admiral Charles E.Kennedy-Purvis: October 1936-September 1938 Vice-Admiral John H. D. Cunningham: September 1938-December 1940 Rear-Admiral W. Frederic Wake-Walker: December 1940-February 1942 Rear-Admiral Louis H.K. Hamilton: February 1942-August 1943 Vice-Admiral Arthur F.E. Palliser: August 1943-March 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: March 1944-July 1945 Rear-Admiral Harold R.G. Kinahan: June 1946-June 1947 Rear-Admiral Richard V. Symonds-Tayler: June 1947-October 1948 Vice-Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma: October 1948-May 1950 Rear-Admiral C.T. Mark Pizey: May 1950-July 1951 Vice-Admiral Ralph A.B. Edwards: July 1951-1952

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2nd Cruiser Squadron/Light Cruiser Squadron(until 1941 and from 1946):

Rear-Admiral Trevylyan D.W. Napier: December 1914-January 1915 Commodore William E. Goodenough: January 1915-December 1916 Rear-Admiral Cecil F. Lambert: December 1916-February 1918 Rear-Admiral James A. Fergusson: May 1918-May 1919 Rear-Admiral Arthur A. M. Duff: May 1919-May 1921 Rear-Admiral Wilmot S. Nicholson: May 1921-May 1923 Rear-Admiral Thomas D. Gilbert: May 1923-May 1925 Rear-Admiral W. A. Howard Kelly: May 1925-May 1927 Rear-Admiral Frank Larken: May 1927-May 1929 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Matthew R. Best: May 1929-April 1931 Vice-Admiral Edward A. Astley Rushton: April 1931-December 1932 Rear-Admiral Percy L.H. Noble: December 1932-December 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Sidney J. Meyrick: December 1934-December 1936 Rear-Admiral Thomas N. P. Calvert: December 1936-June 1938 Vice-Admiral Sir G. Frederick B. Edward-Collins: June 1938-April 1940 Rear-Admiral Alban T. B. Curties: May 1940-June 1941 Rear-Admiral Reginald M. Servaes: June 1945-1946 Rear-Admiral Herbert A. Packer: October 1946-January 1948 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Guy H.E. Russell: January 1948-May 1949 Rear-Admiral William R.Slayter: May 1949-August 1950 Vice-Admiral C. Aubrey L. Mansergh: August 1950-1952

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3rd Cruiser Squadron/Light Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Trevylyan D. W. Napier: January 1915-January 1917 Rear-Admiral Allen T. Hunt: January 1918-February 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: February-August 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir George P. W. Hope: August 1919-January 1921 Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt: January 1921-December 1922 Rear-Admiral Sir A. Ernle M. Chatfield: December 1922-December 1924 Rear-Admiral John W. L. McClintock: December 1924-January 1927 Rear-Admiral Lionel G. Preston: January 1927-February 1929 Rear-Admiral Arthur J. Davies: February 1929-January 1931 Vice-Admiral Barry E. Domvile: January 1931-January 1932 Rear-Admiral Francis L. Tottenham: January 1932-April 1933 Rear-Admiral H.J.Studholme Brownrigg: April 1933-April 1935 Rear-Admiral George H. D’Oyly Lyon: April 1935-March 1937 Rear-Admiral Lionel V. Wells: March 1937-March 1939 Rear-Admiral Henry M. Moore: March 1939-July 1940 Rear-Admiral Edward de F. Renouf: July 1940-May 1941

4th Light Cruiser/Cruiser Squadron :

Commodore Charles E. Le Mesurier: May 1915-August 1917 Commodore Rudolf W. Bentinck: August 1917-October 1918 Rear-Admiral Allan F.Everett: October 1918-April 1919 Rear-Admiral Arthur J.L. Murray: December 1939-April 1940 Rear-Admiral William G. Tennant: April 1942-October 1943 Rear-Admiral Arthur D. Read: October 1943-November 1944 Rear-Admiral E.J. Patrick Brind: October 1944-January 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir John H. Edelsten: February-June 1946

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5th Light Cruiser/Cruiser Squadron(until 1971; and Second-in-Command, Far East Fleet from 1948):

Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bt.: June 1915-March 1919 Rear-Admiral George H. Borrett: March 1919-May 1920 Rear-Admiral Arthur J.L. Murray: May-December 1939 Rear-Admiral Harold T.C. Walker: June-December 1944 Rear-Admiral Arthur D. Read: January-March 1945 Vice-Admiral Wilfrid R. Patterson: March 1945-May 1946 Rear-Admiral Reginald M. Servaes: May-August 1946 Rear-Admiral Charles H.L. Woodhouse: August 1946-September 1947 Rear-Admiral Robert D. Oliver: September 1947-September 1948 Vice-Admiral Alexander C.G. Madden: September 1948-January 1950 Vice-Admiral Sir William G. Andrewes: January 1950-April 1951 Rear-Admiral Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff: April 1951-September 1952 Rear-Admiral Eric G.A. Clifford: September 1952-November 1953 Rear-Admiral Gerald V. Gladstone: November 1953-February 1955 Rear-Admiral Robert F. Elkins: February 1955-June 1956 Rear-Admiral W. Kaye Edden: June 1956-August 1957 Vice-Admiral Laurence G. Durlacher: August 1957-December 1958 Vice-Admiral Varyl C. Begg: December 1958-July 1960 Rear-Admiral Michael Le Fanu: July 1960-June 1961 Vice-Admiral John B. Frewen: June 1961-December 1962 Vice-Admiral John P. Scatchard: December 1962-June 1964 Vice-Admiral Peter J. Hill-Norton: June 1964-January 1966 Vice-Admiral Charles P. Mills: January 1966-April 1967 Vice-Admiral Edward B. Ashmore: April 1967-August 1968 Vice-Admiral Anthony T.F.G. Griffin: August 1968-August 1969 Rear-Admiral Terence T. Lewin: August 1969-November 1970 Rear-Admiral David Williams: November 1970-August 1971

6th Light Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair: July 1917-February 1919

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7th Light Cruiser/Cruiser Squadron :

Rear-Admiral George H.Borrett: April 1918-March 1919 Commodore Edward B.C. Dicken: September 1939-February 1940 Vice-Admiral John C. Tovey: June-July 1940 Vice-Admiral Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: October 1940-May 1941 Rear-Admiral H. Bernard H. Rawlings: May 1941-January 1942

8th Light Cruiser Squadron :

Commodore W.A. Howard Kelly: September 1917-April 1919 Rear-Admiral Sir Allan F. Everett: April 1919-1921

9th Cruiser Squadron (Reserve Fleet/South Atlantic Command; disbanded 1940):

Rear-Admiral Allan Poland: July 1939-April 1940

10 th Cruiser Squadron (Home Fleet/Mediterranean Fleet; renamed 2 nd Cruiser Squadron, 1946):

Rear-Admiral Sir Harold M. Burrough: September 1940-August 1942 Rear-Admiral Cecil H.J. Harcourt: August-October 1942 Vice-Admiral Sir Robert L. Burnett: January 1943-March 1944 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick H.G. Dalrymple- Hamilton: March 1944-April 1945 Rear-Admiral Angus E.M.B. Cunninghame Graham: April 1945-October 1946

11 th Cruiser Squadron (Reserve Fleet/North Atlantic Command; disbanded 1940):

Commodore Richard J.R. Scott: July 1939-February 1940

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12 th Cruiser Squadron (Home Fleet, 1939; Mediterannean Fleet, 1942-1943):

Vice-Admiral Sir Max K. Horton: September-October 1939 Rear-Admiral W. Frederic Wake-Walker: September-October 1939 (disbanded) Rear-Admiral Cecil H. J.Harcourt: 1942-May 1943 (disbanded)

15 th Cruiser Squadron (Home Fleet/Mediterranean Fleet; renamed 1 st Cruiser Squadron, 1946):

Vice-Admiral Edward L. S. King: July 1940-October 1941 Rear-Admiral Sir Philip L. Vian: October 1941-September 1942 Rear-Admiral Arthur J. Power: September 1942-May 1943 Rear-Admiral Cecil H.J. Harcourt: May 1943-January 1944 Rear-Admiral John M. Mansfield: January 1944-March 1945 Commodore Maurice J. Mansergh: March 1945-January 1946 Rear-Admiral Harold R.G. Kinahan: January-June 1946

18 th Cruiser Sequadron (Home Fleet; disbanded 1942):

Rear-Admiral Ronald H.C. Hallifax: September-November 1939 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Layton: November 1939-June 1940 Vice-Admiral Sir G. Frederick B. Edward-Collins: June-November 1940 Vice-Admiral Lancelot E. Holland: November 1940-May 1941 Commodore Charles M. Blackman: May-June 1941 (temporary) Rear-Admiral E.Neville Syfret: June 1941-January 1942 Vice-Admiral Stuart S. Bonham-Carter: January-October 1942

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Commander, Home Fleet Destroyers(Flag Officer, Flotillas from 1967 until 1971: Second-in-Command, Home Fleet from until ; Flag Officer, First Flotilla from 1971 until 1990; Surface Flotilla from 1990 until 2002):

Commodore Edward F. B. Charlton: November 1908-December 1910 Commodore Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot, Bt.: December 1910-July 1912 Commodore Cecil F. Lambert: July 1912-December 1913 Commodore Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt: December 1913-1914 Commodore Hugh J.Tweedie: December 1917-May 1920 Rear-Admiral Michael H. Hodges May 1920-July 1922 Rear-Admiral Arthur K. Waistell: July 1922-April 1923 Rear-Admiral Sir George H.Baird: April 1923-September 1924 Rear-Admiral Colin K. Maclean: September 1924–September 1926 Rear-Admiral Wion de M. Egerton: September 1926-July 1928 Commodore Robin C.Dalglish: July 1928-August 1930 Commodore Edward O.B.S.Osborne: August 1930-July 1932 Commodore George H. D’Oyly Lyon: July 1932-August 1934 Commodore Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot: August 1934-February 1935 Rear-Admiral Evelyn C. O. Thomson: February 1935-March 1936 Rear-Admiral Henry D. Pridham-Wippell: March 1936-April 1938 Rear-Admiral Tom S. V. Phillips: April 1938-May 1939 Rear-Admiral Ronald H. C. Hallifax: May 1939-February 1941 Rear-Admiral Louis H. K. Hamilton: February 1941-February 1942 Rear-Admiral Robert L. Burnett: March 1942-January 1943 Vice-Admiral Irvine G. Glennie: January 1943-July1944 Commodore Reginald M. J. Hutton: July 1944-? 1945 Rear-Admiral W. Geoffrey A. Robson: December 1951-July 1953 Rear-Admiral John W. Cuthbert: July 1953-December 1954 Rear-Admiral Richard G. Onslow: January 1955-August 1956 Vice-Admiral J. David Luce: August 1956-April 1958 Vice-Admiral Royston H. Wright: April 1958-August 1959 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: August 1959-October 1960 Vice-Admiral John G. Hamilton: October 1960-September 1962 Vice-Admiral Frank R. Twiss: September 1962-October 1964 Vice-Admiral John O.C. Hayes: October 1964-May 1966 Rear-Admiral Michael P. Pollock: May 1966-July 1967 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Compston: July 1967-July 1968 Rear-Admiral Andrew M. Lewis: July 1968-November 1969 Rear-Admiral J. Ernle Pope: November 1969-July 1971 Rear-Admiral Arthur M. Power: July 1971-January 1973 216

Vice-Admiral Iwan G. Raikes: January 1973-March 1974 Vice-Admiral Henry C. Leach: March 1974-November 1975 Vice-Admiral Anthony S. Morton: November 1975-March 1977 Rear-Admiral Robert R. Squires: March 1977-October 1978 Rear-Admiral David J. Hallifax: October 1978-April 1980 Rear-Admiral D. Conrad Jenkin: April 1980-July 1981 Rear-Admiral Sir John F. Woodward: July 1981-April 1983 Rear-Admiral J. Jeremy Black: April 1983-April 1984 Rear-Admiral Robin I.T. Hogg: April 1984-October 1986 Vice-Admiral John B. Kerr: October 1986-July 1988 Vice-Admiral John F. Coward: July 1988-September 1989 Vice-Admiral A. Peter Woodhead: September 1989-September 1991 Rear-Admiral A. Bruce Richardson: September 1991-April 1992 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Nicholas J. Hill-Norton: April-November 1992 Vice-Admiral Sir Michael C. Boyce: November 1992-April 1995 Vice-Admiral Sir John R. Brigstocke: April 1995-July 1997 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Franklyn: July 1997-April 2000 Rear-Admiral Ian A. Forbes: April 2000-November 2001 Rear-Admiral Alexander K. Backus: November 2001-2002

Chief of Staff/Deputy Flag Officer :

Rear-Admiral A. Bruce Richardson: April-? 1992 Captain Richard T.R. Phillips: 1992-1993 Captain Jeremy M. de Halpert: 1993 Commodore R. John Lippiett: 1993-1995 Commodore John R. Cartwright: 1995-1997 Commodore James M. Burnell-Nugent: 1997 Commodore Laurence C. Hopkins: 1997-1999 Commodore Paul W. Herington: 1999-2000 Commodore Roger S.Ainsley: 2000-2002

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Flag Officer, Second Flotilla (until 1992):

Rear-Admiral David Williams: November 1971-March 1972 Rear-Admiral Andrew J. Miller: March 1972-March 1973 Rear-Admiral Richard P. Clayton: March 1973-December 1974 Rear-Admiral John D.E. Fieldhouse: December 1974-October 1976 Rear-Admiral William D.M. Staveley: October 1976-March 1977 Rear-Admiral Martin La T. Wemyss: March 1977-December 1978 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Stanford: December 1978-October 1980 Rear-Admiral Nicholas J.S. Hunt: October 1980-November 1981 Rear-Admiral Robert W.F. Gerken: November 1981-October 1983 Rear-Admiral D. Benjamin Bathurst: October 1983-April 1985 Rear-Admiral W. Richard S. Thomas: April 1985-December 1986 Rear-Admiral Guy F. Liardet: December 1986-March 1988 Rear-Admiral A. Peter Woodhead: March 1988-August 1989 Rear-Admiral Peter C. Abbott: August 1989-January 1991 Rear-Admiral John R. Brigstocke: January 1991-April 1992

Flag Officer, Third Flotilla (from 1979 until 1992):

Rear-Admiral Peter G.M. Herbert: 1979 Vice-Admiral Sir John M.H. Cox: December 1979-March 1982 Rear-Admiral Derek R. Reffell: March 1982-August 1983 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard G.A. Fitch: August 1983-October 1985 Vice-Admiral Sir J.Julian R. Oswald: October 1985-April 1987 Rear-Admiral Hugo M. White: April 1987-October 1988 Vice-Admiral Sir Alan Grose: October 1988-March 1990 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Nicholas J. Hill-Norton: March 1990-April 1992

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Commander, United Kingdom Task Group (from 1992 until 2001; Commander, United Kingdom Maritime Forces( from 2001): Rear-Admiral John R. Brigstocke: April 1992-September 1993 Rear-Admiral Michael P. Gretton: September 1993-December 1994 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Franklyn: December 1994-February 1996 Rear-Admiral Alan W.J. West: February 1996-October 1997 Rear-Admiral Ian A. Forbes: October 1997-February 2000 Rear-Admiral Stephen R. Meyer: February 2000-May 2001 Rear-Admiral James M. Burnell-Nugent: May 2001-November 2002 Rear-Admiral David G. Snelson: November 2002-May 2004 Rear-Admiral Charles R. Style: May 2004-November 2005 Rear-Admiral Neil Morisetti: November 2005-June 2007 Rear-Admiral George M. Zambellas: June 2007-September 2008 Rear-Admiral Philip A. Jones: September 2008-June 2009 Rear-Admiral Peter D. Hudson: June 2009-January 2011 Rear-Admiral Duncan L. Potts: January 2011-January 2013 Rear-Admiral Robert K. Tarrant: January 2013-December 2014 Rear-Admiral Anthony D. Radakin: December 2014-January 2016 Rear-Admiral Alexander J. Burton: January 2016-November 2017 Rear-Admiral Paul M. Bennett: November 2017-July 2018 Rear-Admiral Jeremy P. Kyd: October 2018-February 2019 Rear-Admiral Andrew P. Burns: February-December 2019 Rear-Admiral Michael K. Utley: December 2019-

Commander, United Kingdom Task Group (from 2001 until 2011):

Commodore Hugh A.H.G. Edleston: April 2001-January 2002 Commodore James R. Fanshawe: January-December 2002 Commodore Richard D. Leaman: January-June 2003 Commodore Anthony J. Rix: November 2003-January 2006 Commodore Bruce N.B. Williams: January 2006-December 2007 Commodore Duncan L. Potts: December 2007-December 2008 Commodore James A. Morse: December 2008-January 2011

Deputy Commander, U.K. Maritime Forces( from January 2011 until 2016):

Commodore Simon J. Ancona: January-June 2011 Commodore John R.H. Clink: June 2011-October 2012 Commodore Jeremy J.F.Blunden: October 2012-February 2015 Commodore Guy A. Robinson: February 2015-September 2016 219

Commander, Carrier Strike Group (from 200 until 2011 and from 2015): Commodore Alan D. Richards: 2006-July 2007 Commodore Thomas A. Cunningham: July 2007-April 2009 Commodore Simon J. Ancona: April 2009-January 2011 Commodore Jeremy P. Kyd: February 2015-September 2016 Commodore Andrew Betton: September 2016-October 2018 Commodore Michael K. Utley: October 2018-December 2019 Commodore Stephen M.R. Moorhouse: December 2019-

Commodore, Amphibious Warfare(Amphibious Task Group from 1997 until 2011 and from March 2015 until September 2019; U.K.(Response Force) Task Group from 2011; Littoral Strike Group from September 2019): Commodore Roy W. Halliday: August 1971-September 1973 Commodore David T. Smith: September 1973-October 1975 Commodore Richard D. Franklin: October 1975-February 1977 Commodore Derek R. Reffell: June 1978-October 1979 Commodore Christopher J. Isacke: October 1979-May 1981 Commodore Michael C. Clapp: May 1981-February 1983 Commodore Peter G. V. Dingemans: February 1983-January 1985 Commodore John Garnier: January-July 1985 Commodore E.S. Jeremy Larken: July 1985-December 1987 Commodore Brian W. Turner: December 1987-April 1990 Commodore Peter J. Grindal: April 1990-1992 Commodore Richard A.Y. Bridges: 1992-1994 Commodore Paul B.C. Canter: 1994-October 1996 Commodore Paul D. Stone: October 1996-1998 Commodore Niall S.R. Kilgour: 1998-July 2001 Commodore A.James G. Miller: July 2001-September 2003 Commodore Christopher J. Parry: September 2003-January 2005 Commodore George M. Zambellas: January 2005-August 2006 Commodore Philip A. Jones: August 2006-2008 Commodore Peter D. Hudson: 2008-May 2009 Commodore Paul M. Bennett: May 2009-January 2011 Commodore John M. L. Kingwell: January-November 2011 Commodore Patrick A. McAlpine: November 2011-February 2014 Commodore Jeremy P. Kyd: February 2014-February 2015 Commodore Martin J. Connell: February 2015-May 2016 Commodore Andrew P. Burns: May 2016-May 2018 Commodore James M.B. Parkin: May 2018-May 2020 Commodore Robert G. Pedre: May 2020- 220

Deputy Commander, Strike Force(South)/Naval Striking and Support Forces, NATO(from 2004):

Rear-Admiral Anthony K. Dymock: January 2000-August 2002 Rear-Admiral R. Paul Boissier: 2003-July 2004 Rear-Admiral David J. Cooke: July 2004-August 2006 Rear-Admiral Robert G. Cooling: August 2006-January 2008 Rear-Admiral Christopher A. Snow: January 2008-January 2009 Rear-Admiral Ian F. Corder: January 2009-February 2011 Rear-Admiral Russell G. Harding: February 2011-September 2012 Rear-Admiral Timothy M. Lowe: September 2012-July 2015 Rear-Admiral Patrick A. McAlpine: July 2015-November 2017 Rear-Admiral Guy A. Robinson: November 2017-

Deputy Director, Combined Joint Operations, Sea Center for Excellence, U.S.A.:

Commodore Peter K. Walpole: July 2003-July 2005 Commodore Stephen P. Cleary: July 2005-August 2007 Commodore Robert J. Mansergh: August 2007-December 2009 Commodore Jonathan M. Handley: December 2009-March 2012 Commodore Steven J. Chick: March 2012-July 2014 Commodore Philip J. Titterton: July 2014-September 2017 Commodore Thomas Guy: September 2017-

Commander, United Kingdom Maritime Component, Persian Gulf (from 2001):

Commodore Paul H. Robinson: September 2003-2005 Commodore Simon T. Williams: 2005-October 2006 Commodore Keith Winstanley: October 2006-October 2008 Commodore Timothy M. Lowe: October 2008-May 2010 Commodore Timothy P. Fraser: May 2010-November 2011 Commodore Simon J. Ancona: November 2011-September 2013 Commodore Keith E. Blount: September 2013-March 2015 Commodore William J. Warrender: March 2015-June 2017 Commodore Steven Dainton: June 2017-June 2019 Commodore Dean A. Bassett: June 2019-

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Commodore, Portsmouth Flotilla (from 2002 until 2020):

Commodore Roger S. Ainsley: March 2002-2004 Commodore Richard C. Twitchen: 2004-June 2006 Commodore Andrew J.B. Cameron: June 2006-September 2008 Commodore Michael P. Mansergh: September 2008-June 2009 Commodore M. Rupert B. Wallace: June 2009-August 2011 Commodore the Hon. Michael C.N. Cochrane: August 2011-March 2014 Commodore Patrick A. McAlpine: March 2014-June 2015 Commodore Peter J. Sparkes: June 2015-December 2017 Commodore Craig Wood: December 2017-April 2020

Commodore, Devonport Flotilla (from 2002 until 2020):

Commodore Anthony J. Rix: March-December 2002 Commodore James R. Fanshawe: December 2002-September 2005 Commodore Peter K. Walpole: September 2005-December 2007 Commodore Jonathan S. Westbrook: May 2008-March 2010 Commodore Steven J. Chick: July 2010-February 2012 Commodore John K. Moores: February 2012-March 2013 Commodore Richard Farrington: March 2013-March 2015 Commodore Paul V. Halton: March 2015-August 2017 Commodore Robert J.A. Bellfield: August 2017-April 2020

Commander, Faslane Flotilla (until 2020):

Commodore Jonathan S. Westbrook: March 2010-February 2011 Commodore John K. Moores: February 2011-January 2012 Commodore Stephen W. Garrett: January 2012-June 2014 Commodore Michael J.D. Walliker: June 2014-2016 Commodore James Le S. Perks: 2016-April 2020

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Commander Mediterranean Fleet Destroyers :

Captain Humphrey T.Walwyn: October 1922-October 1923 Captain Dashwood F. Moir: October 1923-September 1924 Rear-Admiral A.Percy Addison: September 1924-August 1926 Rear-Admiral the Hon.Herbert Meade: August 1926-September 1928 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Arthur B.S.Dutton: September 1928-August 1930 Rear-Admiral Charles M. Forbes: August 1930-November 1931 Rear-Admiral Frank F. Rose: November 1931-January 1934 Rear-Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham: January 1934-April 1936 Vice-Admiral James F. Somerville: April 1936-April 1938 Vice-Admiral John C. Tovey: April 1938-March 1940 Rear-Admiral Irvine G. Glennie: May 1941-September 1942 Commodore Percy Todd: September 1942-October 1943 Rear-Admiral E.Desmond B. McCarthy: June 1946-November 1947 Vice-Admiral Michael M. Denny: November 1947-February 1949 Vice-Admiral Henry W.U. McCall: February 1949-June 1950 Vice-Admiral Peveril B.R.W. William-Powlett: June 1950-October 1951 Vice-Admiral Frederick R. Parham: October 1951-January 1953 Vice-Admiral Charles F.W. Norris: January 1953-February 1954 Rear-Admiral R. Dymock Watson: February 1954-July 1955 Rear-Admiral Deric D.E. Holland-Martin: July 1955-1957 Rear-Admiral R. Alastair Ewing: June 1958-January 1960 Vice-Admiral Desmond P. Dreyer: January 1960-April 1961 Rear-Admiral John F.D. Bush: April 1961-October 1962 Rear-Admiral John H. Walwyn: October 1962-1965

Commander, Pacific Fleet Destroyers :

Vice-Admiral John H. Edelsten: January-October 1945 Rear-Admiral Ernest R. Archer: October 1945-1946

Commodore, Amphibious Forces, Far East Fleet :

Commodore Hardress L. Lloyd: May 1965-May 1966 Commodore David A. Dunbar-Nasmith: May 1966-July 1967 Commodore E. Gerard N. Mansfield: July 1967-November 1968 Commodore Thomas W. Stocker: November 1968-September 1970 Commodore Derek W. Napper: September 1970-March 1971

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Commanding, Eastern Mediterranean Squadron(Aegean Squadron from:

Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil F.Thursby: May 1916-August 1917 Rear-Admiral Sydney R. Fremantle: August 1917-January 1918 Rear-Admiral Arthur Hayes Sadler: January-February 1918 Rear-Admiral Cecil F. Lambert: February-September 1918 Rear-Admiral Michael Culme-Seymour: September 1918-January 1919

Commander, Training Squadron (until 1957):

Rear-Admiral Philip K. Enright: September 1947-September 1948 Rear-Admiral Edmund W. Anstice: September 1948-August 1949 Rear-Admiral Edward M. Evans-Lombe: August 1949-September 1950 Rear-Admiral St. John A. Micklethwait: September 1950-September 1951 Rear-Admiral Royer M. Dick: September 1951-April 1952 Commodore Ballin I. Robertshaw: April-July 1952 Rear-Admiral John F. Stevens: July 1952-August 1953 Rear-Admiral William L.G. Adams: August 1953-August 1954 Rear-Admiral Stephen H. Carlill: August 1954-April 1955 Rear-Admiral Hilary W. Biggs: April 1955-May 1956 Vice-Admiral Guy B. Sayer: May 1956-1957

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Commanding, 1st Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron ( Atlantic Fleet until April 1925 when renamed 5 th Destroyer Flotilla; re-established in Mediterranean Fleet in April 1925):

Captain George W. McO. Campbell (“HMS Wallace”):April 1919-December 1920 Captain Arthur Kemmis Betty (“HMS Wallace”): December 1920-December 1922 Captain Andrew B. Cunningham (“HMS Wallace”): December 1922-July 1924 Captain Kenneth MacLeod (“HMS Wallace”/ “HMS Bruce”): July 1924-April 1925 Captain James V. Creagh (“HMS Shakespeare”/ “HMS Montrose”): April 1925-October 1927 Captain John H.K. Clegg (“HMS Montrose”/ “HMS Mackay”: October 1927-November 1929 Captain Alan R. Dewar (“HMS Mackay”): November 1929-December 1931 Captain Edward B. Cloete (“HMS Mackay”): December 1931-December 1932 Captain Charles F. Harris (“HMS Mackay”): December 1932-February 1934 Captain Harold T. Baillie-Grohman (“HMS Duncan”/ “HMS Keppel”): February 1934-May 1936 Captain Philip L. Vian (“HMS Keppel”): May-September 1936 Captain Charles M. Blackman (“HMS Grenville”): September 1936-June 1938 Captain George H. Creasy (“HMS Grenville”/ “HMS Codrington”): June 1938-May 1940 Captain George F. Stevens-Guille (“HMS Codrington”): May-July 1940 Captain R. Dymock Watson (“HMS Chequers”): 1947-October 1948 Captain John E.H. McBeath(“HMS Chequers”): October 1948-April 1950 Captain Michael S. Townsend(“HMS Chequers”): April 1950-October 1951 Captain Charles E. Keys(“HMS Chequers”): October 1951-April 1953 Captain Ralph C.M. Duckworth(“HMS Chequers”): April 1953-June 1954 Captain Hugh S. Mackenzie(“HMS Chevron”): June 1954-November 1955 Captain Arthur E.T. Christie(“HMS Chieftain”): November 1955-May 1957 Captain Robert L. Alexander(“HMS Solebay”): May 1957-November 1958 Captain Herbert J. Lee(“HMS Solebay”): November 1958-June 1960 Captain John Smallwood(“HMS Solebay”): June 1960-May 1962

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Commanding, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron (Atlantic Fleet until March 1925, transferred to Mediterranean Fleet between March 1925 to June 1932, returned to Home Fleet between June 1932 and November 1935 and then back to Mediterranean Fleet):

Captain Colin T. MacLean (“HMS Spenser”): March 1919-April 1920 Captain Humphrey T. Walwyn (“HMS Spenser”): April 1920-May 1922 Captain Roger L’E. M. Rede (“HMS Spenser”): May 1922-November 1923 Captain Eric G. Robinson (“HMS Spenser”/”HMS Stuart”): November 1923-May 1925 Captain George H. D’O. Lyon (“HMS Stuart”): May 1925-May 1927 Captain Montague G.B. Legge (“HMS Stuart”): May 1927-December 1928 Captain William J. Whitworth (“HMS Stuart”): December 1928-January 1931 Captain Alfred H. Taylor (“HMS Stuart”): January 1931-May 1932 Captain Edye K. Boddam-Whetham (“HMS Stuart”/”HMS Kempenfelt”): May 1932-August 1934 Captain Cedric S. Holland (“HMS Kempenfelt”): August 1934-October 1936 Captain Denis W. Boyd (“HMS Kempenfelt”/ “HMS Hardy”): October 1936-February 1938 Captain Ralph Kerr (“HMS Hardy”): February 1938-July 1939 Captain Bernard A.W. Warburton-Lee (“HMS Hardy”): July 1939-April 1940 Captain Hugh St.L. Nicolson (“HMS Hyperion”/ “HMS Ilex”/ “HMS Griffin”/”HMS Duncan”): April 1940-December 1942 Captain John H. Allison (“HMS Zephyr”): December 1944-June 1945

Captain George I.M. Balfour(“HMS Daring”): November 1956-1958 Captain Charles P. Mills(“HMS Daring”): January 1959-December 1960

Captain A. Gordon Tait(“HMS Ajax”): ?-December 1966 Captain George A. de G. Kitchin(“HMS Ajax”): December 1966-May 1968 Captain David Hepworth (“HMS Ajax”): May 1968-1969 Captain Harry R. Keate(“HMS Ajax”): September 1969-1970 Captain Kenneth Vause (“HMS Juno”): January-November 1971

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Commanding, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron (Atlantic Fleet util August 1923, Mediterranean Fleet from August 1923 until August 1936, and Home Fleet from August 1936 ); until 1960 and from 1980 until 200 ):

Captain Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy (“HMS Campbell”):March-July 1919 Captain Francis A.W. Buller (“HMS Campbell”): July 1919-July 1921 Captain Frank F. Rose (“HMS Campbell”): July 1921-July 1923 Captain John C. Hodgson (“HMS Campbell”): July-October 1923 Captain Dashwood F. Moir (“HMS Stuart”/”HMS Spenser”): October 1923-January 1925 Captain Charles G. Ramsey (“HMS Spenser”/ “HMS Keppel”): January 1925-January 1927 Captain Evelyn C.O. Thomson (“HMS Keppel”): January 1927-October 1928 Captain Cyril G. Sedgwick (“HMS Keppel”): October 1928-June 1930 Captain Roderick B.T. Miles (“HMS Codrington”): June 1930-October 1932 Captain James W.S. Dorling (“HMS Codrington”): October 1932-July 1935 Captain Geoffrey J.A. Miles (“HMS Codrington”): July 1935-May 1937 Captain Arthur G. Talbot (“HMS Inglefield”): May 1937-November 1939 Captain Percy Todd (“HMS Inglefield”): November 1939-May 1942 Captain Ian M.R. Campbell (“HMS Milne”): May 1942-April 1944 Captain Maxwell Richmond (“HMS Milne”): April 1944-December 1945 Captain William H. Selby (“HMS Saumarez”): December 1945-1947 Captain Laurence G. Durlacher(“HMS Troubridge”/“HMS Saintes”): January 1948-July 1950 Captain Peter Dawnay(“HMS Saintes”): July 1950-July 1951

Captain Hector C. D. MacLean(“HMS Saintes”): February 1952-July 1953 Captain Desmond P. Dreyer”HMS Saintes”: July 1953-April 1955 Captain A.A. Fitzroy Talbot(“HMS Saintes”/ ”HMS Armada”): April 1955-March 1957 Captain Eric V. St. J. Morgan(“HMS Armada”): March 1957-August 1958 Captain Ottoker H.M. St. J. Steiner(“HMS Saintes”):August 1958-April 1960 Captain Norman R.D. King(“HMS Newcastle”): June-October 1980 Captain Derek A. Wallis(“HMS Newcastle”): October 1980-July 1982 Captain Anthony D. Hutton(“HMS Newcastle”): July 1982-September 1984 Captain Peter J. Erskine(“HMS Newcastle”): September 1984-February 1986 Captain John R. Brigstocke(“HMS York”): April 1986-April 1987 Captain David A.J. Blackburn(“HMS York”): April 1987-September 1988 Captain Peter J. Cowling(“HMS York”): September 1988-January 1990 Captain Anthony G. McEwen(“HMS York”): January 1990-May 1991 227

Captain Roy A.G. Clare(“HMS York”): May 1991-1992 Captain Paul D. Stone(“HMS York”): 1992-December 1993 Captain Laurence C. Hopkins(“HMS Liverpool”): December 1993-July 1995 Captain Roger S. Ainsley(“HMS Liverpool”): July 1995-1997 Captain David G. Snelson(“HMS Liverpool”): 1997-1998 Captain Philip L. Wilcocks(“HMS Liverpool”): 1998-August 1999 Captain Richard G. Twitchen(“HMS Liverpool”): August 1999-2000 Captain C. Joseph Gass (“HMS Edinburgh”): December 2000-2001

Commanding, 4th Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron ( Atlantic Fleet August 1923, Mediterranean Fleet from August 1923 until August 1936, Home Fleet from August 1936 until 1938 and from May 1939 through renumbering of 1 st Tribal Flotilla; until April 1959):

Captain Rowland H. Bather (“HMS Seymour”/ “H.M.S. Bruce”): March 1919-December 1920 Captain Dashwood F. Moir (“HMS Bruce”/ “HMS Mackay”): December 1920-January 1923 Captain Sidney R. Bailey (“HMS Mackay”): January-September 1923 Captain Edward B.S. Bingham (“HMS Montrose”): September 1923-September 1924 Captain Edmond J.G. Mackinnon (“HMS Montrose”/”HMS Broke”): September 1924-September 1926 Captain Cyril H.G. Benson (“HMS Broke”): September 1926-June 1928 Captain Bertram C. Watson (“HMS Broke”): June 1928-March 1930 Captain Hugh H. Rogers (“HMS Broke”/”H.M.S. Keith”): March 1930-April 1932 Captain Gerald C. Harrison (“HMS Keith”): April 1932-October 1933 Captain Frederick H.G. Dalrymple-Hamilton (“HMS Keith”): October 1933-March 1936 Captain Denis W. Boyd (“HMS Keith”): March-August 1936 Captain Rhoderick R. McGrigor (“HMS Campbell”/”HMS Kempenfelt”): September 1936-1938 Captain George H. Creswell (“HMS Afridi”): May 1939-January 1940 Captain Philip L. Vian (“HMS Cossack”/”HMS Afridi”): January 1940-July 1941 Captain Edward L. Berthon (“HMS Cossack”): July-October 1941 Captain Stephen H. Carlill (“HMS Quilliam”): August 1942-November 1943 Captain Richard G. Onslow (“HMS Quilliam”/ “HMS Grenville”): November 1943-August 1945 Captain Ralph G. Swallow(“HMS Agincourt”): February 1948-August 1949 228

Captain Deric D.E. Holland-Martin(“HMS Agincourt”):August 1949-1951 Captain Martin J. Evans(“HMS Agincourt”): March 1951-August 1952 Captain John Lee-Barber(“HMS Agincourt”): August 1952-April 1954 Captain Ronald G. Mills(“HMS Agincourt”): April-December 1954 Captain Nicholas A. Copeman(“HMS Agincourt”): December 1954-March 1956 Captain Derick H. F. Hetherington(“HMS Agincourt”):March 1956-November 1957 Captain Erroll N. Sinclair(“HMS Agincourt”): November 1957-April 1959

Commanding, 5th Destroyer Squadron (Atlantic Fleet until 1923; Mediterranean Fleet from 1923 until 1925; Atlantic/Home Fleet from 1925 through the redesignation of 1 st Destroyer Flotilla until November 1935; Mediterranean Fleet from November 1935 until June 1936; until 1953, from 1957 until 196 and from 1980 to 2002):

Captain Kerrison Kiddle (“HMS Saumarez”): March-October 1919 Captain Theodore E.J. Bigg (“HMS Malcolm”): June 1921-August 1922 Captain Cyril St.C. Cameron (“HMS Malcolm”): August 1922-April 1924 Captain Edward O.B.S. Osborne (“HMS Malcolm”/ “HMS Montrose”): April 1924-April 1925 Captain Kenneth Macleod (“HMS Wallace”): April 1925-July 1926 Captain Lewis G.E. Crabbe (“HMS Wallace”/ “HMS Mackay”): July 1926-August 1927 Captain Frank Elliott (“HMS Mackay”/”HMS Wallace”): August 1927-August 1929 Captain Ronald H.C. Hallifax (“HMS Wallace”): August 1929-August 1931 Captain Geoffrey R.S. Watkins (“HMS Wallace”): August 1931-January 1933 Captain A. Lumley St. G. Lyster ( “HMS Wallace”/ “HMS Exmouth”): January 1933-April 1935 Captain Harold M. Burrough (“HMS Exmouth”): April 1935-June 1937 Captain L. Vaughan Morgan (“HMS Exmouth”): June 1937-May 1939 Captain Lord Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten (“HMS Kelly”): July 1939-May 1941 Captain Ralph L. Fisher(“HMS Solebay”): March 1947-August 1948 Captain Robert A. Currie(“HMS Solebay”): August 1948-August 1949 Captain Thomas V. Briggs(“HMS Solebay”): August 1949-December 1950 Captain Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith(“HMS Solebay”):December 1950-April 1952 Captain John G. Hamilton(“HMS Solebay”): April 1952-July 1953 Captain Horace R. Law (“HMS Duchess”): July 1953-1954

Captain David G. Goodwin “HMS Duchess”): August 1954-February 1956 229

Captain Nigel H.G. Austen (“HMS Duchess”): February 1956-August 1957 Captain John P. Scatchard(“HMS Duchess”): August 1957-December 1958 Captain Edward A.S. Bailey(“HMS Duchess”): January 1961-January 1963 Captain Jeremy C. Dreyer(“HMS Exeter”): December 1980-February 1982 Captain Hugh M. Balfour(“HMS Exeter”): February 1982-June 1983 Captain George M. Tullis(“HMS Exeter”): June 1983-July 1984 Captain David S. Dobson(“HMS Southampton”): July 1984-October 1985 Captain C. Christopher Morgan(“HMS Southampton”):October 1985-1987 Captain Stephen Taylor(“HMS Southampton”): 1987-January 1989 Captain Nigel R. Essenhigh(“HMS Exeter”): April 1989-August 1991 Captain John R. Cartwright(“HMS Exeter”): August 1991-May 1993 Captain John R. Hance(“HMS Exeter”): May 1993-1995 Captain Paul W. Herrington(“HMS Exeter”): 1995-December 1996 Captain Hugh A.H.G. Edleston(“HMS Exeter”/ ”HMS Cardiff”): December 1996-July 1998 Captain Stephen Jermy(“HMS Cardiff”): July 1998-December 1999 Captain Neil Morisetti(“HMS Cardiff”): December 1999-June 2001 Captain Timothy P. Fraser(“HMS Cardiff”): June 2001-February 2002

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Commanding, 6th Destroyer Squadron (Mediterranean Fleet until 1921; Atlantic/Home Fleet from 1921; renumbered 8 th Destroyer Flotilla and reformed from 2 nd Tribal Flotilla, May 1939; until 1959):

Captain Charles D. Johnson: December 1912-December 1916 Captain Percy Withers: January 1917-January 1918 Captain Wilfred Tomkinson: January 1918-March 1919 Captain the Hon. William S. Leveson-Gower (“HMS Stuart”): January 1919-January 1921 Captain Charles A. Fremantle (“HMS Stuart”): January-May 1921 Captain Sidney J. Meyrick (“HMS Shakespeare”): May 1921-May 1922 Captain Andrew B. Cunningham (“HMS Shakespeare”): May-December 1922 Captain Eric G. Robinson (“HMS Shakespeare”): December 1922-July 1923 Captain John C. Hodgson (“HMS Campbell”): October 1923-December 1924 Captain Richard A.A. Plowden (“HMS Campbell”): December 1924-April 1926 Captain John C. Tovey (“HMS Campbell”): April 1926-January 1927 Captain Reginald V. Holt (“HMS Campbell”): January 1927-September 1928 Captain Tom S.V. Phillips (“HMS Campbell”): September 1928-April 1930 Captain Arthur J.L. Murray (“HMS Campbell”/ “HMS Montrose”): April 1930-April 1932 Captain Henry D. Pridham-Wippell (“HMS Campbell”): April 1932-April 1933 Captain Marshal L. Clarke (“HMS Campbell”/ “HMS Faulknor”): April 1933-March 1936 Captain Victor H. Danckwerts (“HMS Faulknor”): March 1936-April 1938 Captain Charles S. Daniel (“HMS Faulknor”): April 1938-May 1939 Captain R.S. Gresham Nicholson (“HMS Somali”): May 1939-1940 Captain Clifford Caslon (“HMS Tartar”/”HMS Somali”): May 1940-July 1941 Captain Donald K. Bain (“HMS Somali”): August 1941-March 1942 Captain John M.W. Eaton (“HMS Somali”/”HMS Eskimo”): March 1942-August 1943 Captain Godfrey N. Brewer (“HMS Caesar”): October 1944-1946 Captain Sir Charles E. Madden,Bt.(“HMS Battleaxe”): October 1947-July 1949 Captain W. Kaye Edden(“HMS Battleaxe”): July 1949-March 1951 Captain Peter D.H.R. Pelly(“HMS Battleaxe”): March 1951-August 1952 Captain Edward C. Bayldon(“HMS Battleaxe”): August 1952-January 1954 Captain Colin H. Campbell(“HMS Battleaxe”): January 1954-April 1955 Captain Arthur R. Hezlet(“HMS Battleaxe”): April 1955-July 1956 231

Captain J.K. Kennard(“HMS Cavendish”): July 1956-November 1957 Captain Patrick U. Bayly(“HMS Cavendish”): November 1957-August 1959

Commanding, 7th Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron (retitled 5 th Destroyer Squadron in 19 ; Mediterranean Fleet from January 1921 until July 1923; Atlantic Fleet from July 1923 until June 1927; from 1958 until 1963):

Captain Arthur R. Hulbert: November 1911-May 1912

Captain Francis G. St.John: December 1912-March 1914 Captain Francis Clifton Brown: March 1914-May 1915 Captain Laurence R. Oliphant: June 1915-September 1916 Captain Robert A. Hornell: February-October 1918

Captain Harry R. Godfrey (“HMS Douglas”): March-November 1919

Captain Humphrey T. Walwyn (“HMS Stuart”): October 1922-July 1923 Captain Eric G. Robinson (“HMS Shakespeare”): July-September 1923 Captain Edmond J.G. Mackinnon (“HMS Shakespeare”): September 1923-September 1924 Captain Lewis G.E. Crabbe (“HMS Shakespeare”): September 1924-January 1925 Captain James V. Creagh (“HMS Shakespeare”): January-April 1925 Captain Lewis G.E. Crabbe (“HMS Mackay”): April 1925-July 1926 Captain Evelyn C.O. Thomson (“HMS Mackay”): July-December 1926 Captain Montague G.B. Legge (“HMS Mackay”): December 1926-April 1927 Captain John H.K. Clegg (“HMS Mackay”): April-June 1927 Captain Walter N.T. Beckett: September-October 1938 Captain L, Vaughan Morgan (“HMS Exmouth”): May 1939 Captain Philip J. Mack (“HMS Jervis”): May 1939-May 1940 Captain Stephen H.T.Arliss (“HMAS Napier”): January 1941-June 1942 Captain Herbert J. Buchanan (“HMAS Napier”): November 1944-September 1945 Captain Colin D. Madden(“HMS Trafalgar”: May 1958-November 1959 Captain George C. Crowley(“HMS Trafalgar”): November 1959-May 1961 Captain Robert R.B. Mackenzie(“HMS Trafalgar”): May 1961-May 1963

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Commanding, 8th Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron (Mediterranean Fleet from 192 until October 1923, Atlantic Fleet from October 1923 until 1927; China from 1927 until May 1939; Home Fleet from May 1939 through the renumbering of 6 th Destroyer Flotilla):

Captain the Hon. Edward B.S. Bingham (“HMS Montrose”): October 1922-September 1923

Capain Richrd A.A. Plowden (“HMS Bruce”): April-December 1924 Captain John C. Tovey (“HMS Bruce”): December 1924-April 1926 Captain Reginald V. Holt (“HMS Bruce”): September 1926-January 1927 Captain Maxwell R.J. Maxwell-Scott (“HMS Bruce”): January 1927-September 1928 Captain William P. Mark-Wardlaw (“HMS Bruce”):November 1928-March 1931 Captain Robert L. Burnett (“HMS Keppel”): March 1931-April 1933 Captain Alexander R. Hammick (“HMS Keppel”/ “HMS Duncan”): April 1933-August 1935 Captain Richard S. Benson (“HMS Duncan”): August 1935-July 1937 Captain Harold Hickling (“HMS Duncan”): July 1937-May 1939 Captain Charles S. Daniel (“HMS Faulknor”): May 1939-February 1940 Captain Antony F. de Salis (“HMS Faulknor”): February 1940-January 1942 Captain Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff (“HMS Faulknor”):January 1942-September 1943 Captain Mervyn S. Thomas (“HMS Faulknor”): September 1943-February 1944

Captain Richard T. White(“HMS Cossack”): February 1949-August 1950 Captain Varyl C. Begg(“HMS Cossack”): August 1950-February 1952 Captain Walter A. Adair(“HMS Cossack”): February 1952-July 1953 Captain Harold S. Hopkins(“HMS Cossack”): July 1953-September 1954 Captain Lionel W.L. Argles(“HMS Cossack”): September 1954-June 1955 Captain Edmund T. Larken(“HMS Cossack”): June 1955-November 1956 Captain Charles W. Malins(“HMS Cheviot”): November 1956-April 1958 Captain William D. O’Brien(“HMS Cheviot”): April 1958-October 1959 Captain Anthony R.E. Evans(“HMS Cavendish”): October 1959-1961 Captain Hugh A. Corbett(“HMS Caesar”): June 1961-September 1962 Captain Bernard D.O. MacIntyre(“HMS Caesar”: September 1962-May 1963

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Commanding, 9 th Destroyer Flotilla (Atlantic Fleet; until 1927):

Captain Roger L’E.M. Rede (”HMS Bruce”): August 1921-April 1922 Captain Cyril St.C. Cameron (“HMS Bruce”): April-August 1922 Captain John C. Hodgson (“HMS Bruce”): August 1922-July 1923

Captain Sidney R. Bailey (“HMS Mackay”): September 1923-January 1925 Captain Lewis G.E. Crabbe (“HMS Mackay”): January-April 1925 Captain James V. Creagh (“HMS Wallace”): April-May 1925 Captain John C. Tovey (“HMS Bruce”): May-July 1925 Captain Guy L. Coleridge (“HMS Shakespeare”): October-December 1925 Captain Eric B.K. Stevens (“HMS Havelock”): January-July 1940

Commanding, 10 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Hector W.L. Waller (“HMAS Stuart”): May 1940-July 1941 Captain Basil Jones (“HMS Tartar”): March 1944-1945

Commanding, 11 th Destroyer Flotilla :

Captain Philip L. Vian (“HMS Mackay”): September-December 1939 Captain Francis S.W. de Winton (“HMS Rotherham”): January 1943-August 1944 Captain Hilary W. Biggs (“HMS Rotherham”): August 1944-1945

Commanding, 12 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Richard S. Benson (“HMS Exmouth”): September 1939-January 1940 Captain Ralph Kerr (“HMS Broke”): February-August 1940 Captain Donald K. Bain (“HMS Keppel”): August-October 1940 Captain Eric B.K.Stevens (“HMS Pakenham”): December 1941-February 1943

Commanding, 13 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Francis S.W. de Winton (“HMS Keppel”): September-December 1939

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Commanding, 14 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Philip J. Mack (“HMS Jervis”/”HMS Janus”):May 1940-March 1942 Captain Albert L. Poland (“HMS Jervis”): March 1942-January 1943 Captain Anthony F. Pugsley (“HMS Jervis”): January-June 1943 Captain John S. Crawford (“HMS Jervis”): June-November 1943 Captain Harold P. Henderson (“HMS Jervis”): November 1943-January 1944 Captain Harold T. Armstrong (“HMS Laforey”): January-March 1944

Commanding, 15 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Ralph Kerr (“HMS Broke”): September 1939

Commanding, 16 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Thomas E. Halsey (“HMS Malcolm”): September 1939-June 1940 Captain Augustus W.S. Agar (“HMS Malcolm”): June-August 1940 Captain Thomas E. Halsey (“HMS Malcolm”): August-October 1940 Captain Thomas E. Halsey (“HMS Mackay”): May-September 1941 Captain John P. Wright (“HMS Mackay”): September 1941-July 1942 Captain Selwyn V. Jephson (“HMS Mackay”): July 1942-September 1943 Captain Jocelyn S.C. Salter (“HMS Mackay”/”HMS Eglinton”): June 1944-May 1945

Commanding, 17 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Alfred J.L. Phillips (“HMS Montrose”): September 1939 Captain David J.R. Simson (“HMS Keith”): February-March 1940 Captain Frederic C. Bradley (“HMS Campbell”): March-April 1940 Captain Harold T. Armstrong (“HMS Onslow”): September 1941-November 1942 Captain Robert St.V. Sherbrooke (“HMS Onslow”): November 1942-January 1943 Captain James A. McCoy (“HMS Offa”/”HMS Onslow”): March 1943-September 1944 Captain Hugh W.S. Browning (“HMS Onslow”): September 1944-1945

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Commanding, 18 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Clifford Caslon (“HMS Kempenfelt”/ HMCS Assiniboine”): September-October 1939 Captain Percy Todd (“HMS Inglefield”): October-November 1939

Commanding, 19 th Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean Fleet, 1935 to 1936):

Captain Philip L. Vian (“HMS Douglas”): October 1935-May 1936 Captain David J.R.Simson (“HMS Codrington”): September-November 1939 Captain David J.R. Simson (“HMS Keith”): February-May 1940 Captain Edward L. Berthon (“HMS Keith”): May-June 1940 Captain Reginald M.J. Hutton (“HMS Laforey”): March 1941-September 1943 Captain Harold T. Armstrong (“HMS Laforey”): September 1943-January 1944 Captain Anthony F.Pugsley (“HMS Trafalgar”): July-November 1945

Commanding, 20 th Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet):

Captain Ernest R. Archer (“HMS Montrose”): August 1935-February 1936 Captain Charles M. Blackman (“HMS Montrose”/ HMS Douglas): February-September 1936 Captain Jack G. Bickford (”HMS Express”): December 1939-September 1940

Commanding, 21 st Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet from 1935 until 1936; China from May 1939 by renumbering of 8 th Destroyer Flotilla):

Captain Ralph Kerr (“HMS Campbell”): September 1935-May 1936 Captain Harold Hickling (“HMS Duncan”): May-July 1939 Captain Geoffrey R.B. Back (“HMS Duncan”): July 1939-January 1940 Captain Donald K. Bain (“HMS Andania”): January-June 1940 Captain C.T. Mark Pizey (“HMS Campbell”): June 1940-July 1942 Captain Cecil R.L.Parry (“HMS Campbell”/ “HMS Meynell”/”HMS Mendip”/”HMS Garth”): July 1942-August 1944 Captain William G. Davis (“HMS Garth”): August 1944-September 1945

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Commanding, 22 nd Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain St.John A. Micklethwait (“HMS Sikh”): February-September 1942

Commanding, 23 rd Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain David J.R. Simson (“HMS Codrington”): October-November 1939

Captain Peter G.L. Cazalet (“HMS Saumarez”/ “HMS Myngs”): March 1944-July 1945

Commanding, 24 th Destroyer Flotilla :

Captain Charles L. Firth (“HMS Troubridge”): August 1943-September 1944 Captain Geoffrey F. Burghard (“HMS Troubridge”):September 1944-1945

Commanding, 25 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Harold P. Henderson (“HMS Grenville”): January 1944-1946

Commanding, 26 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain W. Geoffrey A. Robson (“HMS Hardy”): August 1943-April 1944

Captain Manley L. Power (“HMS Myngs”/“HMS Saumarez”): November 1944-1945

Commanding, 27 th Destroyer Flotilla:

Captain Manley L. Power (“HMS Myngs”): October-November 1944 Captain Eric G. McGregor (“HMS Kempenfelt”): February- 1945

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Commanding, 1st Frigate Squadron (from 1972 until 1999):

Captain Geoffrey C. Lloyd(“HMS Charybdis”): November 1972-December 1973 Captain John A.F. Lawson(“HMS Charybdis”): December 1973-April 1975 Captain D. Conrad Jenkin(“HMS Galatea”): April-October 1975 Captain William S. Gueterbock(“HMS Galatea”): October 1975-March 1977 Captain David B. Nolan(“HMS Galatea”): March 1977-August 1978 Captain Anthony R. Barnden(“HMS Galatea”): August 1978-November 1979 Captain Robin I. T. Hogg(“HMS Galatea”): November 1979-January 1981 Captain Timothy M. Bevan(“HMS Ajax”): January-April 1981 Captain Jeremy M. Porter(“HMS Ajax”): April 1981-May 1983 Captain Peter C. Abbott(“HMS Ajax”): May 1983-December 1984 Captain John F.S. Trinder(“HMS Ajax”/ “HMS Euryalus”): December 1984-1986 Captain David M. Jeffreys(“HMS Euryalus”): 1986-June 1987 Captain Geoffrey A. Eades(“HMS Beaver”): June 1987-March 1988 Captain Andrew B. Gough(“HMS Beaver”): March-August 1988 Captain Anthony Morton(“HMS Beaver”): August 1988-March 1990 Captain Roger C. Lane-Nott(“HMS Coventry”): March 1990-December 1991 Captain Stephen E. Saunders(“HMS Coventry”): December 1991-August 1993 Captain Christopher D. Stanford(“HMS Coventry”):August 1993-September 1994 Captain Thomas Morton(“HMS Coventry”): September 1994-1996 Captain David A. Lewis(“HMS Boxer”): 1996-November 1997 Captain Richard J. Ibbotson(“HMS Beaver”/ “HMS Boxer”): November 1997-December 1999

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Commanding, 2nd Frigate Squadron (disbanded 1955; re-establoshed 1961; until 2002):

Captain William G. Crawford(“HMS Pelican”): November 1947-September 1949 Captain Christopher D. Bonham-Carter(“HMS Pelican”): September 1949-March 1951 Captain Robert P.S. Grant (“HMS Mermaid”): March 1951-September 1952 Captain Alwyn D. Lenox-Conyngham(“HMS Mermaid”): September 1952-January 1954 Captain Alexander H.C. Gordon Lennox(“HMS Mermaid”):January 1954-1955 Captain Ian W. McLaughlan(“HMS Whirlwind”): August 1961-December 1962 Captain Raymond P. Dannreuther(“HMS Undaunted”):December 1962-November 1963 Captain Geoffrey C. Mitchell(“HMS Aurora”): November 1963-December 1965 Captain Bernard H. Notley(“HMS Aurora”): December 1965-June 1967 Captain A. Desmond Cassidi(“HMS Undaunted”): June 1967-December 1968 Captain Brian C.G. Hutchings(“HMS Undaunted”): December 1968-May 1970 Captain John B. Robathan(“HMS Undaunted”): May 1970-September 1971 Captain R. Michael Burgoyne(“HMS Undaunted”): September 1971-November 1973 Captain Linley E. Middleton(“HMS Undaunted”/ “HMS Apollo”): November 1973-April 1975 Captain Richard A. Stephens(“HMS Apollo”): April 1975-January 1977 Captain George M.F. Vallings(“HMS Apollo”): January 1977-February 1978 Captain James W.F. Briggs(“HMS Apollo”/ “HMS Diomede”): February 1978-October 1979 Captain Anthony J. Dunn(“HMS Diomede”): October 1979-May 1981 Captain Anthony M.G. Pearson(“HMS Broadsword”):May-October 1981 Captain William R. Canning(“HMS Broadsword”): October 1981-October 1982 Captain Robert McQueen(“HMS Broadsword”): October 1982-October 1983 Captain Anthony M. Norman(“HMS Broadsword”): October 1983-April 1985 Captain Geoffrey R.W. Biggs(“HMS Broadsword”): April 1985-May 1986 Captain Brian W. Turner(“HMS Broadsword”): May 1986-October 1987 Captain Colin H.D. Cooke-Priest(“HMS Brilliant”): December 1987-February 1989 Captain Richard F. Cobbold(“HMS Brilliant”): February 1989-December 1990 Captain Tobin D. Elliott(“HMS Brilliant”): December 1990-May 1992 Captain James M. Burnell-Nugent(“HMS Brilliant”):May 1992-September 1993 Captain Charles J. Freeman(“HMS Cornwall”): September 1993-1994 Captain Geoffrey K. Billson(“HMS Cornwall”): 1994-October 1996 Captain Anthony K. Dymock(“HMS Cornwall”: October 1996-May 1998 Captain James C. Rapp(“HMS Cornwall”): May 1998-August 1999 Captain Timothy P. McClement(“HMS Cornwall”): August 1999-2001 Captain Steven R. Kirby(“HMS Cornwall”): 2001-March 2002

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Commanding, 3rd Frigate Squadron (until 1980):

Captain Alan D.H. Jay(“HMS Black Swan”): February 1949-June 1950 Captain George A.F. Norfolk(“HMS Black Swan”): June 1950-1952

Captain George O. Roberts(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): April 1956-April 1958 Captain Peter J. Wyatt(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): April 1958-October 1959 Captain Alan R. Aldous(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): October 1959-May 1961 Captain Michael F. Fell(“HMS Loch Killisport”: May 1961-February 1963 Captain William C. Simpson(“HMS Loch Killisport”):February-May 1963

Captain Michael E. Barrow(“HMS Diomede”): December 1973-May 1974 Captain John H.F.C. de Winton(“HMS Leander”): May 1974-June 1975 Captain John M. Tait(“HMS Leander”): June 1975-December 1976 Captain Alastair F.C. Wemyss(“HMS Diomede”): December 1976-October 1978 Captain Kenneth A. Snow(“HMS Arethusa”: October 1978-May 1980

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Commanding, 4th Frigate Squadron :

Captain Ralph C. Medley(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): July 1948-January 1950 Captain Walter L.M. Brown(“HMS Cardigan Bay”):January 1950-August 1951 Captain Hugh C.B. Coleridge(“HMS Cardigan Bay”):August 1951-February 1953 Captain Bryan C. Durant(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): February 1953-October 1954 Captain E.Nigel Pumphrey(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): October 1954-April 1956

Captain John R.G. Trechman(“HMS Eastbourne”): June 1959-January 1961 Captain John C. Cartwright(“HMS Plymouth”: January 1961-February 1963 Captain Edward L. Cook(“HMS Plymouth”): February-April 1963

Captain Edward R. Anson(“HMS Juno”): December 1974-May 1976 Captain Charles E.T. Baker(“HMS Cleopatra”): May 1976-January 1977 Captain John M. Webster(“HMS Cleopatra”): January 1977-November 1978 Captain John M. Tait(“HMS Cleopatra”): November 1978-March 1981 Captain Hugo M. White(“HMS Avenger”): March 1981-August 1982 Captain A. Peter Woodhead(“HMS Avenger”): August 1982-September 1983 Captain A. Bruce Richardson(“HMS Avenger”): September 1983-March 1985 Captain Christopher J.S. Craig(“HMS Avenger”): March 1985-September 1986 Captain Ian D.G. Garnett(“HMS Active”): September 1986-February 1988 Captain Paul C.B. Canter (“HMS Active”): February 1988-August 1989 Captain Martin A. Johnson (“HMS Active”): 1990-July 1991 Captain Anthony J.C. Morrow (“HMS Active”): July 1991-January 1993 Captain Christopher R. Beagley (“HMS Active”): January 1993-September 1994 Captain G.B.D. Lane (“HMS Marlborough”): September 1994-1995 Captain John F. Rodley(“HMS Marlborough”): September 1995-1997 Captain A. James G. Miller(“HMS Marlborough”): 1997-June 1999 Captain Anthony J. Rix(“HMS Marlborough”): June 1999-December 2000 Captain Duncan L. Potts(“HMS Marlborough”): December 2000-August 2002 Captain Mark Anderson(“HMS Marlborough”): August 2002-2004

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Commanding, 5th Frigate Squadron (until 1980):

Captain George K. Collett(“HMS Cardigan Bay”): August 1946-1948 Captain John S.M. Richardson (“HMS Peacock”): April 1950-October 1951 Captain Maurice E. Butler-Bowden (“HMS Cygnet”):November 1951-November 1952 Captain C.Morris Parry (“HMS Wrangler”): March 1953-September 1954 Captain Roddie Casement (“HMS Wrangler”): September 1954-November 1955 Captain Gordon T.S. Gray(“HMS Wakeful”/ “HMS Torquay”): November 1955-October 1957 Captain Edward M. Usherwood(“HMS Torquay”): October 1957-September 1959 Captain Jozef Bartosik(“HMS Scarborough”): September 1959-January 1961 Captain David A. Dunbar-Nasmith(“HMS Scarborough”/”HMS Berwick”): January 1961-1963 Captain David W. Brown(”HMS Hermione”): December 1972-April 1974 Captain Peter M. Stanford(“HMS Hermione”): April 1974-June 1975 Captain Geoffrey R.T. Duffay(“HMS Hermione”): June 1975-January 1977 Captain John A.B. Thomas(“HMS Hermione”): January 1977-February 1978 Captain John B.L. Watson(“HMS Hermione”): February-July 1978 Captain D. Benjamin Bathurst(“HMS Minerva”): September 1978-December 1980

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Commanding, 6th Frigate Squadron (until 2002):

Captain Roy S. -Brown(“HMS Loch Insh”): August 1950-1951

Captain Colin C. Martell(“HMS Venus”): November 1952-1954 Captain Philip F. Powlett(“HMS Undine”): October 1954-November 1955 Captain John F.D. Bush(“HMS Undine”): November 1955-1956 Captain Raymond Hart(“HMS Undine”): April 1957-October 1958 Captain Edward B. Ashmore(“HMS Blackpool”): October 1958-January 1960 Captain Henry R. Hewlett(“HMS Yarmouth”): January 1960-April 1962 Captain Ian W. Jamieson(“HMS Nubian”): April 1962-1964

Captain Richard D. Franklin(“HMS Andromeda”): August 1971-December 1972 Captain Alexander F.R. Weir(“HMS Andromeda”): December 1972-July 1974 Captain Robert W.F. Gerken(“HMS Andromeda”): July 1974-January 1976 Captain Anthony M.G. Pearson(“HMS Andromeda”):January 1976-March 1977 Captain Kelvin A. Low(“HMS Andromeda”/ “HMS Sirius”): March 1977-August 1978 Captain Michael L’E. Tudor-Craig(“HMS Sirius”): August 1978-November 1979 Captain Thomas G.B. Ram(“HMS Sirius”): November 1979-April 1981 Captain David Pentreath(“HMS Plymouth”): April 1981-July 1982 Captrain Michael C. Cole(“HMS Plymouth”): July 1982-1984 Captain Peter A. Voute(“HMS Ariadne”): 1984-February 1986 Captain Peter J. Grindal(“HMS Ariadne”): February 1986-September 1987 Captain John H.S. McAnally(“HMS Ariadne”/ “HMS Hermione”): September 1987-May 1989 Captain Andrew S. Ritchie(“HMS Hermione”): May 1989-December 1990 Captain Alexander K. Backus(“HMS Hermione”): December 1990-1992 Captain James F. Perowne(“HMS Norfolk”): December 1992-1994 Captain Niall S.R. Kilgour(“HMS Norfolk”/ “HMS Montrose”): 1994-August 1996 Captain Timothy J.H. Laurence(“HMS Montrose”): August 1996-August 1997 Captain Adrian J. Nance(“HMS Montrose”): August 1997-December 1998 Captain Robert G. Cooling(“HMS Montrose”): December 1998-July 2000 Captain C. Anthony Johnstone-Burt(“HMS Montrose”):July 2000-December 2001 Captain Matthew J. Parr(“HMS Montrose”): December 2001-February 2002

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Commanding, 7th Frigate Squadron:

Captain David C. Ingram”HMS St.Austell Bay”): April 1951-May 1952 Captain Earl Cairns(“HMS St.Austell Bay”): May 1952-March 1953 Captain Richard G.W. Hare(“HMS Veryan Bay”): March 1953-February 1954 Captain Hugh C. Martell(“HMS Bigbury Bay”): February 1954-February 1955 Captain C. Patrick Norman(“HMS Mounts Bay”): February 1955-April 1956 Captain George E. Hunt(“HMS Bigbury Bay”): April 1956-June 1958 Captain William G. Meeke(“HMS Lynx”): August 1958-February 1960 Captain Robin A. Begg(“HMS Lynx”): February 1960-August 1961 Captain David B.N. Mellis(“HMS Puma”): August 1961-May 1963 Captain Peter M. Austin(“HMS Lynx”): May 1963-January 1965 Captain Peter G.R. Mitchell(“HMS Lynx”/ ”HMS Puma”): January1965-1966 Captain Matin N.Lucey(“HMS Puma”): 1966- Captain Cyril J. Cunningham(“HMS Puma”):

Captain Oliver P. Sutton(“HMS Scylla”): July 1972-October 1974 Captain David G. Armytage(“HMS Jupiter”): June 1976-September 1977 Captain Geoffrey T.J.O. Dalton(“HMS Jupiter”): September 1977-June 1979 Captain Charles E.T. Baker(“HMS Argonaut”): June 1979-May 1981 Captain Christopher H. Layman(“HMS Argonaut”/ “HMS Cleopatra”): May 1981-January 1983 Captain Guy F. Liardet(“HMS Cleopatra”): January 1983-1984 Captain Roy T. Newman(“HMS Cleopatra”): 1984-December 1985 Captain Peter Dalrymple-Smith(“HMS Cleopatra”): December 1985-1987 Captain Thomas M. Le Marchand(“HMS Cleopatra”):1987-January 1989 Captain John P. Clarke(“HMS Argonaut”): January 1989-June 1990 Captain William K. Hutchison(“HMS Argonaut”): June 1990-February 1992 Captain Robert P. Stevens(“HMS Argonaut”): February 1992-March 1993

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Commanding, 8th Frigate Squadron :

Captain Richard J. Bates(“HMS Ajax”): June 1973-December 1974 Captain D. John Mackenzie(“HMS Ajax”): December 1974-July 1976 Captain Robert R. Squires(“HMS Ajax”): July 1976-March 1977 Captain Peter Cobb(“HMS Ajax”): March 1977-December 1978 Captain Michael J.F. Rawlinson(“HMS Ajax”): December 1978-July 1980 Captain Timothy M. Bevan(“HMS Ajax”/ “HMS Ariadne”): July 1980-April 1982 Captain James L. Weatherall(“HMS Andromeda”): April 1982-February 1984 Captain Michael A.C. Moore(“HMS Andromeda”): February 1984-September 1985 Captain Jeremy T. Sanders(“HMS Andromeda”): September 1985-March 1987 Captain Neil E. Rankin(“HMS Andromeda”): March 1987-1988 Captain Christopher L. Wreford-Brown(“HMS Cornwall”):1988-January 1989 Captain Richard T.R. Phillips(“HMS Cornwall”): January 1989-October 1990 Captain Paul Branscombe(“HMS Cornwall”): October 1990-September 1992 Captain David A.J. Blackburn(“HMS Cornwall”): September 1992-1993

Commanding, 9th Frigate Squadron :

Captain William C. McKnight(“HMS Brave”): 1985-March 1987 Captain Fabian M. Malbon(“HMS Brave”): March 1987-August 1988 Captain Andrew B. Gough(“HMS Brave”): August 1987-December 1989 Captain Jonathon Band(“HMS Norfolk”): 1989-1991 Captain R.John Lippiett(“HMS Norfolk”): 1991-December 1992 Captain James F. Perowne(“HMS Norfolk”): December 1992-March 1993

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Commanding, 17 th Frigate Squadron(Dartmouth Training Squadron)( from 1956):

Captain John E. Scotland(“HMS Vigilant”): November 1955-April 1957 Captain Morgan C. Giles(“HMS Vigilant”): April 1957-December 1958 Captain Peter N. Howes(“HMS Vigilant”): December 1958-August 1960 Captain Peter W.B. Ashmore(“HMS Roebuck”): August 1960-December 1961 Captain Terence T. Lewin(“HMS Urchin”): December 1961-August 1963 Captain North E.F. Dalrymple-Hamilton: August 1963-December 1964 Captain Christopher B.H. Wake-Walker(“HMS Tenby”/ “HMS Eastbourne”): December 1964-August 1966 Captain Ronald W. Forrest(“HMS Torquay”): August 1966-December 1967 Captain Ian S. S. Mackay: December 1967-July 1969 Captain O. Nigel A. Cecil(“HMS Tenby”/ “HMS Scarborough”): July 1969-February 1971 Captain Wilfred J. Graham: February 1971-1972

Commanding, 20 th Frigate Squadron :

Captain Denis Jermain(“HMS Yarmouth”): November 1961-April 1963 Captain E. Gerard N. Mansfield(“HMS Yarmouth): April 1963-December 1964 Captain Anthony S. Morton(“HMS Yarmouth”): December 1964-1966

Commanding, 21 st Escort Squadron :

Captain Richard K.N. Emden(“HMS Berwick”): April 1963-1965 Captain Thomas W. Stocker(“HMS Dido”): March 1965-October 1966

Commanding, 22 nd Escort Squadron :

Captain Edward L. Cook(“HMS Plymouth”): April-May 1963 Captain Derrick G. Kent(“HMS Plymouth): May 1963-October 1964

Commanding, 23 rd Escort Squadron :

Captain Arthur M. Power(“HMS Rhyl”): February 1963-August 1964 Captain John A. Templeton-Cotill(“HMS Rhyl”): August 1964-April 1966 246

Commanding, 24 th Escort Squadron :

Captain Jack Bitmead(“HMS Duchess”): January-September 1963 Captain the Hon. David P. Seely(“HMS Ajax”): September 1963-July 1965 Captain A. Gordon Tait(“HMS Ajax”): July 1965-1966

Commanding, 25 th Escort Squadron:

Captain B.C. Godfrey Place(“HMS Rothesay”): April 1962-1963

Commanding, 26 th Escort Squadron :

Captain William C. Simpson (“Loch Killisport”): May 1963-1964 Captain Hubert W.E. Hollins(“HMS Caesar”): March 1964-1965 Captain Kenneth Lee-White(“HMS Euryalus”): 1965-1966

Commanding, 27 th Escort Squadron :

Captain Ronald F. Plugge(“HMS Galatea”): December 1963-November 1965 Captain Henry C. Leach(“HMS Galatea”): November 1965-February 1967

Commanding, 28 th Escort Squadron:

Captain Duncan D. Knight(“HMS Blackpool”): August-November 1964

Captain Thomas E. Fanshawe(“HMS Plymouth”): October 1964-1966

Commanding, 30 th Escort Squadron :

Captain Donald V.M. Macleod(“HMS Falmouth”): December 1963-1965

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Commanding, 2nd Training Squadron (until :

Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell(“HMS Zephyr”): July 1948-September 1950 Captain John F. Whitfield(“HMS Zephyr”): September 1950-January 1952 Captain J.F.M. Glenny(“HMS Zephyr”): January 1952-

Captain Frank H.E. Hopkins(“HMS Tyrian”): July 1953-1954

Captain Ian G. Robertson(“HMS Grenville”): December 1955-June 1957 Captain H. Richard B. Janvrin(“HMS Grenville”): June 1957-December 1958 Captain Edward L. Cook(“HMS Teazer”): December 1958-January 1960 Captain Edward W. Briggs(“HMS Teazer”): January 1960-August 1961

Commanding, 3rd Training Squadron :

Captain Donald G.F.W. Macintyre(“HMS Crispin”):August 1948-April 1950 Captain Philip L. Saumarez(“HMS Crispin”): April 1950-October 1951 Captain Michael Le Fanu(“HMS Relentless”): October 1951-May 1952

Captain David G. Clutterbuck(“HMS Zest”): December 1956-April 1958

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Captain, Fishery Protection Squadron :

Captain Anthony H. Thorold: January 1949-1950

Captain Basil Jones: December 1951-June 1953 Captain Frank R. Twiss: June 1953-November 1954 Captain Alastair D. Robin: November 1954-November 1956 Captain Edward A.S. Bailey: November 1956-November 1957 Captain Barry J. Anderson: November 1957-July 1959 Captain Hugo H. Bracken: July 1959-March 1961 Captain George C. Leslie: March 1961-November 1962 Captain Richard J. Trowbridge: November 1962-May 1964 Captain Frank W. Watson: May 1964-July 1965 Captain William I. Campbell: July 1965-June 1966 Captain J. Roger S. Gerard-Pearse: June 1966-July 1968 Captain D.G. Cooper: July 1968-June 1969 Captain Thomas H.E. Baird: June 1969-August 1971 Captain Geoffrey R.T. Duffay: August 1971-December 1973 Captain John T. Tomlinson: December 1973-April 1975 Captain Michael H. Livesay: April 1975-December 1976 Captain Peter G.V. Dingemans: December 1976-October 1978 Captain the Hon. Nicholas J. Hill-Norton: October 1978-July 1980 Captain John F.S. Trinder: July 1980-October 1982 Captain Peter G.J. Murison: October 1982-September 1984 Captain Nicholas J. Barker: September 1984-1986 Captain James S. Chestnutt: 1986-March 1988 Captain Roy Harding: March 1988-

Captain(Destroyers), Portsmouth :

Captain Maurice L. Hardie(“HMS Boxer”): February 1951-April 1952 Captain John P. Scatchard(“HMS Boxer”): April 1952-April 1953 Captain Albert H.F. Hunt(“HMS Boxer”): April 1953-April 1954 Captain John F.Beaufoy Brown (“HMS Boxer”): April 1954-1955 Captain Ian M. Clegg(“HMS Vigo”): November 1955-October 1956 Captain Oswald N. Bailey(“HMS Vigo”: October 1956-February 1958 Captain Michael P. Pollock(“HMS Vigo”): February 1958-1959

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Captain(Destroyers), Portland/Plymouth :

Captain Ian R. Sarel(“HMS Zephyr”/ “HMS Myngs”): 1952-August 1953 Captain Peter N. Buckley(“HMS Orwell”): August 1953-August 1954 Captain Richard F.N. Kearney(“HMS Orwell”): August 1954-December 1955 Captain Terence W. B. Shaw(“HMS Orwell”): December 1955-April 1957 Captain Peter M. Compston(“HMS Orwell”): April 1957-November 1958 Captain Robert White(“HMS Orwell”/ “HMS Chaplet”): November 1958-August 1960 Captain Anthony C. Tupper: August 1960-June 1961 Captain Bertie Pengelly: June 1961-

Captain, 1 st Submarine Squadron, Atlantic Fleet until January 1927; Malta from January 1927 (“HMS Conquest” from February 1922 until January 1927; “HMS Douglas” from 1928 until September 1935; “HMS Cyclops” from September 1935 until October 1937, “HMS Douglas from October 1937 until 1939; “HMS Maidstone” from 1939 until ; “H.M.S. Forth” from December 1947 until July 1960):

Captain George B. Lewis: October 1919-July 1921 Captain Cecil P. Talbot: July 1921-March 1922 Captain Max K. Horton: March 1922-April 1924 Captain Geoffrey Layton: April-December 1924 Captain Robert R. Turner: December 1924-December 1926 Captain Reginald B. Darke: December 1926-December 1928 Captain George P. Thomson: December 1928-November 1930 Captain Frederick H. Taylor: November 1930-December 1932 Captain Ronald W. Blacklock: December 1932-June 1934 Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes: June 1934-July 1936 Captain Edward A. Aylmer: July 1936-January 1938 Captain Philip Ruck Keene: January 1938-1939 Captain Geoffrey M. Sladen: October 1947-December 1948 Captain Bertram W. Taylor: December 1948-July 1950 Captain Anthony C.C. Miers: July 1950-June 1952 Captain Edward F. Pizey: June 1952-February 1954 Captain Jack E. Slaughter: February 1954-November 1955 Captain Voltelin J.H. Van Der Byl: November 1955-December 1957 Captain Thomas E. Barlow: December 1957-July 1960

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Captain, 1 st Submarine Squadron and “HMS Dolphin” Submarine Base and School, Gosport (from July 1960 until October 1993)

Captain Lennox W. Napier: July 1960-December 1961 Captain Ernest J.D. Turner: December 1961-June 1964 Captain John S. Stevens: June 1964-April 1967 Captain Rudland D. Cairns: April 1967-April 1969 Captain Stanley W. Clayden: April 1969-July 1971 Captain Robin W. Garson: July 1971-September 1973 Captain Laurance H. Oliphant: September 1973-January 1977 Captain Charles E.T. Baker: January 1977-February 1979 Captain Geoffrey G.W. Hayhoe: February 1979-October 1981 Captain Roy T. Newman: October 1981-December 1983 Captain Michael H. Everett: December 1983-July 1986 Captain Roger M. Venables: July 1986- Captain Anthony S.L. Smith: -1992

Captain, 1 st Submarine Squadron, Faslane (from October 1993 until February 2002):

Captain John McLees: October 1993-1995 Captain John W.R. Harris: 1995-1997

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Captain, 2 nd Submarine Squadron (Devonport, “HMS Lucia” until 1922; Portsmouth, “HMS Lucia” from 1922 until 1924; Malta, “HMS Lucia” from 1924 until 1927; Devonport, “HMS Lucia” from 1927 until 19 “HMS Forth” from 19 ; Portland, “H.M.S. Maidstone” from 1948 until April 1958; “H.M.S. Tyne”until October 1960; Devonport, “H.M.S. Forth” until February 1962; “HMS Adamant” until February 1966; and “HMS Defiance” from February 1972 until February 2002):

Captain Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: September 1918-October 1920 Captain Cecil P. Talbot: October 1920-July 1921 Captain Geoffrey Layton: July 1921-April 1924 Captain Robert B. Ramsay: April 1924-June 1926 Captain Reginald B. Darke: June-December 1926

Captain Harry P.K. Oram: August 1936-February 1938 Captain W. Derek Stephens: February 1938-January 1940 Captain Charles J. Blake: December 1948-May 1950 Captain Richard L.S. Gaisford: May 1950-September 1951 Captain Voltelin J.H. Van Der Byl: September 1951-March 1953 Captain Patrick J. Cowell: March 1953-September 1954 Captain G. David A. Gregory: September 1954-October 1955 Captain Hugo R.B. Newton: October 1955-April 1957 Captain Stewart A. Porter: April 1957-February 1958 Captain John S. Stevens: February 1958-November 1959 Captain M. Lindsay C. Crawford: November 1959-November 1961 Captain Ian S. McIntosh: November 1961-September 1963 Captain W. David S. Scott: September 1963-March 1965 Captain Charles H. Hammer: March 1965-February 1966 Captain Peter Cobb: February 1972-December 1973 Captain John B. Hervey: December 1973-June 1975 Captain Richard G. Heaslip: June 1975-June 1977 Captain Richard J. Husk: June 1977-June 1979 Captain Michael E. Ortmans: July 1979-June 1981 Captain Geoffrey Jacques: June 1981-June 1983 Captain John L. Round-Turner: June 1983-April 1986 Captain Norman R. Hodgson: April 1986-1988 Captain Richard F. Channon: 1988-September 1990 Captain James F. Perowne: September 1990-1992

Captain Nicholas H.L. Harris: October 1997-1999 Captain Peter J. Wilkinson: 1999-2001 252

Captain David S.H. White: 2001-2002

Captain, 3 rd Submarine Squadron, Clyde (“HMS Forth” until 1947; “H.M.S. Montclare” from 1948 until October 1954; “H.M.S. Adamant” from October 1954 until April 1962; “H.M.S. Maidstone” from April 1962 January 1968; “H.M.S. Neptune” from January 1968 until October 1993):

Captain Wilfrid J.W. Woods: September 1945-March 1947 Captain Jack E. Slaughter: March 1947-October 1948 Captain Howard F. Bone: October 1948-August 1950 Captain Christopher H. Hutchinson: August 1950-1952 Captain Leslie W.A. Bennington: 1952-August 1953 Captain Lennox W. Napier: August 1953-1955 Captain Norman L.A. Jewell: August 1955-1957 Captain Ian L.M. McGeoch: 1957-September 1958 Captain John H. Adams: September 1958-April 1960 Captain John C.Y. Roxburgh: April 1960-October 1961 Captain J. Anthony R. Troup: October 1961-June 1963 Captain Brian H.G.M. Baynham: June 1963-December 1964 Captain Michael G.R. Lumby: December 1964-June 1966 Captain Derrick G. Kent: June 1966-August 1967 Captain A. Gordon Tait: August 1967-February 1969 Captain Thomas A.C. Clack: February 1969-September 1970 Captain Martin La T. Wemyss: September 1970-February 1973 Captain Robert R. Squires: February 1973-January 1975 Captain James B. Wallace: January 1975-January 1977 Captain P.F. (Frank) Grenier: January 1977-January 1979 Captain E.S. Jeremy Larken: January 1979-February 1981 Captain Colin A.F. Buchanan: February 1981-December 1982 Captain Michael G.T. Harris: December 1982-April 1985 Captain Roger C. Lane-Nott: April 1985-1986 Captain Jonathan G.F. Cooke: 1986-1989 Captain Thomas M. Le Marchand: 1989-199 Captain John McLees: 1992-October 1993

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Captain, 4 th Submarine Flotilla, Hong Kong/Singapore (“HMS Titania” until 1929; “H.M.S. Medway” from 1929 until 1939; “HMS Adamant”; until April 1948):

Captain Frederick A. Sommerville: October 1918-October 1920 Captain Charles S. Benning: October 1920-March 1923 Captain Charles G. Brodie: April 1923-January 1925 Captain Robert H.T. Raikes: January 1925-March 1927 Captain John B. Glencross: March 1927-January 1929 Captain Colin Cantlie: January 1929-February 1931 Captain Hugh R. Marrack: February 1931-May 1933 Captain Allan Poland: May 1933-September 1934 Captain Cyril G.B. Coltart: September 1934-February 1937 Captain Claud B. Barry: February 1937-February 1939 Captain Geoffrey M. Keble-White: February 1939-February 1940 Captain Benjamin Bryant: June 1945-June 1947

Captain, 5 th Submarine Squadron, Gosport (“H.M.S. Dolphin” until July 1960):

Captain George B. Lewis: February-July 1919 Captain Ernest W. Leir: July 1919-

Captain Max K. Horton: April 1924-August 1925 Captain Charles G. Brodie: August 1925-October 1927 Captain Robert R. Turner: October 1927-June 1929 Cptain Reginald B. Darke: June 1929-August 1931 Caotain George P. Thomson: August 1931-January 1933 Captain Frederick H. Taylor: January 1933-March 1935 Captain Allan Poland: March 1935-February 1937

Captain Harry P.K. Oram: February 1938-July 1939 Captain Cyril G.B. Coltart: July-December 1939 Captain George C. Phillips: July 1945-October 1947 Commodore Benjamin Bryant: October 1947-October 1949 Captain Hugh C. Browne: October 1949-November 1951 Captain Richard L.S. Gaisford: November 1951-March 1954 Captain Edward F. Pizey: March 1954-October 1955 Captain G. David A. Gregory: October 1955-February 1957 Captain Patrick J. Cowell: February 1957-January 1959 Captain Lennox W. Napier: January 1959-July 1960 254

Captain, 6 th Submarine Squadron, Portland “HMS Vulcan” until 19 ; “HMS Titania from 1930):

Captain Robert R. Turner: December 1922-December 1924 Captain John B. Glencross: December 1924-September 1926 Captain George P. Thomson: September 1926-January 1928 Captain Hugh R. Marrack: March 1929-February 1931

Captain, 7 th Submarine Flotilla (“HMS Maidstone” until 1948):

Captain Jack E. Slaughter: September 1946-March 1947 Captain Hugh C. Browne: March 1947-December 1948

Captain, 7 th Submarine Squadron, Singapore (“H.M.S. “Forth”; from March 1966 until May 1971):

Captain Kenneth H. Martin: March 1966-September 1967 Captain Lancelot R. Bell-Davies: September 1967-November 1968 Captain James S. Launders: November 1968-October 1970 Captain David C.R. Walters: October 1970-May 1971

Captain, 10 th Submarine Squadron and Q.H.M., Clyde Submarine Base (“H.M.S. Neptune”; from June 1967 until October 1993):

Captain Kenneth Vause: June 1967-June 1968 Captain John D.E. Fieldhouse: June 1968-June 1970 Captain Peter G.M. Herbert: June 1970-March 1972 Captain Michael C. Henry: March 1972-September 1974 Captain John R. Wadman: September 1974-July 1976 Captain Ronald G. Fry: July 1976-May 1978 Captain Andrew E. Thomson: May 1978-April 1980 Captain Colin Grant: April 1980-June 1982 Captain Francis D. Lowe: June 1982-June 1985 Captain Richard H. Farnfield: June 1985-1988 Captain Tobin D. Elliott: 1988-1990 Captain A. Michael Gregory: 1991-1993 Captain Robert J. Bradshaw: -October 1993

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INDEX:

Boys’ Training Establishment (“HMS Ganges”), Captain: page 277 Boys’ Training Establishment (“HMS St. Vincent”), Captain: page 278 Boys’ Training Ships, (“HMS Impregnable”), Inspecting Captain: page 263 Dartmouth, R.N. College/“HMS Britannia”, Captain: page 264 Flying Training, Flag Officer: page 258 Greenwich, R.N. College, President: page 253 Captain: page 255 Ground Training, Flag Officer: page 258 Gunnery School, Devonport (”HMS Cambridge”), Captain: page 268 Gunnery School, Portsmouth (“HMS Excellent”), Captain: page 266 Gunnery School, Sheerness/Chatham, Captain: page 269 Imperial Defence College/Royal College of Defence Studies, Senior Naval Member: page 259 Joint Services Staff College/National Defence College/Joint Services Defence College,Senior Naval Member: page 275 Maritime Operations, School of/Navigation and Directional School (“HMS Mercury”/”HMS Dryad), Captain: page 273 Maritime Tactical School, Director: page 262 Maritime Warfare School, Commandant (see Maritime Operations) New Entry Training Establishment (“HMS Raleigh”), Captain: page 276 Sea Training, Flag Officer: page 257 Deputy Flag Officer: page 258 Signals School, (“HMS Mercury”), Captain: page 272 Staff College, R.N., Director: page 261 Torpedo School, (“HMS Vernon”), Captain: page 270 War College, R.N., Director: page 260

256

President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich (from 1873):

Vice-Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key: January 1873-December 1875 Admiral Edward G. Fanshawe: December 1875-March 1878 Admiral Sir Charles F.A.Shadwell: March 1878-March 1881 Admiral Sir Geoffrey T. Phipps Hornby: March 1881-November 1882 Admiral William G. Luard: November 1882-November 1885 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas E. Brandreth: February 1886-November 1888 Admiral Sir William Graham: November 1888-September 1891 Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton: September 1891-May 1894 Admiral Sir Walter J. Hunt-Grubbe: May 1894-October 1897 Admiral Sir Richard E. Tracey: October 1897-October 1900 Admiral Sir Robert H. More-Molyneux: October 1900-October 1903 Admiral Sir Robert H. Harris: October 1903-October 1906 Admiral Sir Arthur D. Fanshawe: October 1906-March 1908 Admiral Sir John Durnford: March 1908-March 1911 Admiral Sir Frederic W.Fisher: March 1911-October 1914 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E. Bethell: October 1914-January 1915 Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly: January 1915-December 1916 Admiral Sir Henry B.Jackson: December 1916-August 1919 Vice-Admiral Sir William C.Pakenham: August 1919-October 1920 Admiral Sir Frederick C.T.Tudor: November 1920-February 1922 Rear-Admiral Herbert W. Richmond: February 1922-February 1923 Admiral Sir George P.W.Hope: February 1923-February 1926 Admiral Sir Richard Webb: February 1926-February 1929 Vice-Admiral John W.L.McClintock: February -March 1929 Vice-Admiral Sir William H. D. Boyle: April 1929-August 1932 Vice-Admiral Sir Barry E. Domvile: August 1932-August 1934 Vice-Admiral Sir Ragnar M. Colvin: August 1934-March 1937 Vice-Admiral Sir Sidney R. Bailey: March 1937-October 1938 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis: October 1938-March 1940 Commodore Augustus W.S. Agar: May 1943-October 1946 Vice-Admiral Sir E.J. Patrick Brind: October 1946-September 1948 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey N. Oliver: September 1948-March 1950 Admiral Sir Harold R.G. Kinahan: March 1950-March 1952 Vice-Admiral Sir C.Aubrey L. Mansergh: March 1952-April 1954 Admiral Sir William G. Andrewes: April 1954-December 1956 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Barnard: December 1956-December 1958 Rear-Admiral Earl Cairns: December 1958-July 1961 Rear-Admiral Alexander H.C. Gordon Lennox: July 1961-October 1962 257

Rear-Admiral Morgan C. Morgan-Giles: October 1962-April 1964 Rear-Admiral Ian L.M. McGeoch: April 1964-May 1965 Rear-Admiral Patrick U. Bayly: May 1965-June 1967 Vice-Admiral Sir Horace C. Lyddon: June 1967-September 1968 Rear-Admiral Edward F. Gueritz: September 1968-October 1970 Rear-Admiral Martin N. Lucey: October 1970-February 1972 Rear-Admiral Edward W. Ellis: February 1972-July 1974 Rear-Admiral Derek W. Bazalgette: July 1974-July 1976 Rear-Admiral Charles A.W. Weston: July 1976-July 1978 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Cooke: July 1978-July 1980 Rear-Admiral John H. Carlill: July 1980-November 1982

258

Captain, Royal Naval College, Greenwich (from 1873):

Captain Frank T. Thomson: January 1873-January 1874 Captain Hugh Campbell: January 1874-January 1875 Captain Henry F. Nicholson: January 1875-May 1877 Captain Compton E. Domvile: May 1877–September 1879 Captain Francis Durrant: October 1879-August 1880 Captain Frederick G.D. Bedford: August 1880-August 1883 Captain Charles C. Penrose Fitzgerald: August 1883-March 1886 Captain Alexander P. Hastings: March 1886-February 1889 Captain Atwell P. M. Lake: February 1889-January 1892 Captain Robert W. Stopford: January 1892-January 1895 Captain John Durnford: January-November 1895 Captain John P.Pipon: November 1895-January 1898 Captain John G.M. Field: January-March 1898 Captain Michael P.O’Callaghan: March-September 1898 Captain Spencer H.M. Login: September 1898-September 1900 Rear-Admiral Henry J. May: September 1900-May 1904 Captain Edmond J.W. Slade: May 1904-October 1906 Captain Edward C. Villiers: October 1906-December 1908 Captain Edward H. Moubray: December 1908-December 1910 Captain Herbert J.O. Millar: December 1910-December 1912 Captain William F. Slayter: December 1912-? 1914 Rear-Admiral Edmund P.E.Jervoise: August 1914-July 1919 Captain Percy M. R. Royds: July 1919-October 1920 Captain Humphrey H. Smith: October 1920-October 1922 Captain Walter J.C.Lake: October 1922-October 1924 Captain G. T.Carlisle P.Swabey: October 1924-September 1926 Captain Robert C. Davenport: September 1926-September 1928 Captain Kenelm E.L. Creighton: September 1928-December 1929 Captain Richard H.O.Lane-Poole: December 1929-August 1931 Captain Hamilton C.Allen: August 1931-September 1933 Captain Alban T.B.Curteis: September 1933-August 1935 Captain Henry H.Bousfield: August 1935-September 1937 Captain Louis H.K.Hamilton: September 1937-June 1939 Captain Augustus W.S.Agar: June-July 1939 Captain John C. Davis: September 1939-May 1943 Commodore Augustus W.S. Agar: May 1943-1946 Captain Leslie N. Brownfield: September 1946-January 1949 Captain Hugh W. S. Browning: January 1949-January 1951 259

Captain Godfrey N. Brewer: January 1951-June 1952 Captain Anthony C.C. Miers: June 1952-August 1954 Captain Christopher H. Hutchinson: August 1954-October 1956 Captain Edward J. Roper: October 1956-April 1959 Captain Maurice L. Hardie: April 1959-December 1960 Captain George B. Rowe: December 1960-July 1962 Commodore David K. Buchanan-Dunlop: July 1962-July 1964 Captain Nigel G. Hallett: July 1964-July 1966 Captain Michael A.J. Hennell: July 1966-May 1969 Captain Charles H. Hammer: May 1969-May 1972 Captain Robert N. Heard: May 1972-May 1974 Captain Roi E. Wilson: May 1974-February 1976 Captain Denys S. Wyatt: February 1976-1978

260

Flag Officer, Sea Training :

Vice-Admiral William G. Crawford: September 1958-August 1960 Vice-Admiral Peter W. Gretton: August 1960-December 1961 Rear-Admiral Horace R. Law: December 1961-May 1963 Rear-Admiral Patrick U. Bayly: May 1963-April 1965 Rear-Admiral Philip G. Sharp: April 1965-July 1967 Rear-Admiral John C.Y. Roxburgh: July 1967-May 1969 Rear-Admiral J. Anthony R. Troup: May 1969-March 1971 Rear-Admiral E. Gerard N. Mansfield: March 1971-October 1972 Rear-Admiral John O. Roberts: October 1972-April 1974 Rear-Admiral James H.F. Eberle: April 1974-April 1975 Rear-Admiral J. Roger S.Gerard-Pearse: April 1975-November 1976 Rear-Admiral Gwynedd I. Pritchard: November 1976-November 1978 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Whetstone: November 1978-September 1980 Rear-Admiral David M. Eckersley-Maslin: September 1980-April 1982 Rear-Admiral John M. Webster: April 1982-May 1984 Rear-Admiral Michael H. Livesay: May 1984-December 1985 Rear-Admiral Barry N. Wilson: December 1985-June 1987 Rear-Admiral John F. Coward: June 1987-June 1988 Rear-Admiral Roy T. Newman: June 1988-December 1989 Rear-Admiral A.Bruce Richardson: December 1989-July 1991 Rear-Admiral Michael C. Boyce: July 1991-September 1992 Rear-Admiral John G. Tolhurst: September 1992-April 1996 Rear-Admiral Peter M. Franklyn: April 1996-July 1997 Rear-Admiral R. John Lippiett: July 1997-September 1999 Rear-Admiral Alexander K. Backus: September 1999-November 2001 Rear-Admiral James C. Rapp: November 2001-April 2004 Rear-Admiral Roger S. Ainsley: April 2004-June 2006 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Rix: June 2006-May 2007 Rear-Admiral Richard J. Ibbotson: May 2007-February 2009 Rear-Admiral Christopher A. Snow: February 2009-July 2011 Rear-Admiral Clive C.C. Johnstone: July 2011-April 2013 Rear-Admiral Benjamin J. Key: April 2013-July 2015 Rear-Admiral John R.H. Clink: July 2015-June 2018 Rear-Admiral William J. Warrender: June 2018-2020

261

Flag Officer, Flying Training (until 1970):

Rear-Admiral Lachlan D. Mackintosh of Mackintosh: September 1945-September 1947 Rear-Admiral Charles E. Lambe: September 1947-August 1949 Rear-Admiral Edmund W. Anstice: August 1949-August 1951 Rear-Admiral Walter T. Couchman: August 1951-June 1953 Rear-Admiral Guy Willoughby: June 1953-February 1956 Rear-Admiral Charles L.G. Evans: February 1956-October 1957 Rear-Admiral Dennis R.F. Cambell: October 1957-September 1960 Rear-Admiral Frank H.E. Hopkins: September 1960-October 1961 Rear-Admiral Philip D. Gick: October 1961-July 1964 Rear-Admiral Donald C.E.F. Gibson: July 1964-October 1965 Rear-Admiral David W. Kirke: October 1965-February 1968 Rear-Admiral Cedric K. Roberts: February 1968-November 1970

Flag Officer, Ground Training (until 1957):

Rear-Admiral Douglas H. Everett: January 1949-May 1951 Rear-Admiral Cecil R.L. Parry: May 1951-May 1953 Rear-Admiral Arthur D. Torlesse: May 1953-November 1954 Rear-Admiral Ralph L. Fisher: November 1954-1957

Deputy Flag Officer, Sea Training (Assistant Chief of Staff (Training) from 2015):

Commodore Mark W.G. Kerr: 1997-1999

Commodore George M. Zambellas: 2001-2002 Commodore Matthew J. Parr: 2003-January 2005 Commodore Bruce N.B. Williams: January-August 2005

Commodore Nicholas R. Lambert: January 2008-November 2009 Commodore K. Wayne L. Keble: November 2009-February 2011 Commodore Patrick A. McAlpine: February-November 2011 Commodore Timothy M. Lowe: December 2011-August 2012 Commodore John S. Weale: September 2012-May 2015 Commodore Steven Dainton: June 2015-January 2017 Commodore Andrew M. Cree: January 2017- 262

Senior Naval Member, Directing Staff, Imperial Defence College(Royal College of Defence Studies from 1970):

Captain Gerald L.C. Dickens: September 1926-August 1929 Captain James F. Somerville: August 1929-September 1931 Captain Bertram H. Ramsay: September 1931-November 1933 Captain Arthur J. Power: November 1933-October 1935 Captain Henry E. Horan: October 1935-July 1937 Captain William G. Tennant: July 1937-August 1939 Rear-Admiral the Hon. Guy H.E. Russell: 1946-December 1947 Rear-Admiral William G. Andrewes: December 1947-January 1950 Rear-Admiral Reginald M.J. Hutton: January 1950-April 1952 Rear-Admiral Stephen H. Carlill: April 1952-April 1954 Rear-Admiral Manley L. Power: April 1954-April 1956 Rear-Admiral William G. Crawford: April 1956-April 1958 Rear-Admiral Peter W. Gretton: April 1958-July 1960 Rear-Admiral George I.M. Balfour: July 1960-January 1963 Rear-Admiral Gordon T.S. Gray: January 1963-January 1965 Rear-Admiral Colin D. Madden: January 1965-January 1967 Rear-Admiral Geoffrey A. Henderson: January 1967-January 1969 Rear-Admiral E. Gerard N. Mansfield: January 1969-January 1971 Rear-Admiral Anthony S. Morton: January 1971-November 1972 Rear-Admiral Alan C.W. Wilson: November 1972-January 1975 Rear-Admiral Richard P. Clayton: January-December 1975 Rear-Admiral Anthony J. Cooke: December 1975-June 1978 Rear-Admiral Bryan J. Straker: June 1978-November 1980 Rear-Admiral R. Michael Burgoyne: November 1980-December 1982 Rear-Admiral Gilbert A. Baxter: December 1982-December 1984 Rear-Admiral Ronald V. Holley: December 1984-September 1985 Rear-Admiral Peter N. Marsden: September 1985-April 1988 Rear-Admiral James F.T.G. Salt: April 1988-July 1990 Rear-Admiral J.G. Robin Musson: July 1990-April 1993 Major-General John S. Chester: April 1993-January 1995 Rear-Admiral James F. Perowne: January 1995-January 1996 Rear-Admiral John H.A.J. Armstrong: January 1996-April 1998 Rear-Admiral Hugh W. Rickard: April 1998-September 2000 Rear-Admiral Peter A. Dunt: September 2000-September 2002 Rear-Admiral Roger G. Lockwood: September 2002-January 2005 Rear-Admiral Robert A. Mark: January 2005-January 2007 Rear-Admiral Christopher A. Snow: January 2007-January 2008 263

Rear-Admiral Simon R. Lister: April 2008-February 2009 Rear-Admiral Simon T. Williams: February 2009-November 2011 Major-General S. Timothy Chicken: November 2011-October 2013

Rear-Admiral Ross Albon: August 2018-

Director, Royal Navy War College (until 1977):

Captain Edmond J. W.Slade: May 1904-November 1907 Rear-Admiral Robert S. Lowry: November 1907-November 1908 Rear-Admiral Lewis Bayly: November 1908-February 1911 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson: March 1911-February 1913 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander E. Bethell: February 1913-August 1914 Rear-Admiral Herbert W. Richmond: February 1920-February 1923

Captain John W. Cuthbert: May 1947-June 1949 Captain Charles L. Keighley-Peach: June 1949-August 1951 Captain Ernest H. Shattock: August 1951-July 1953 Captain John Holmes: July 1953-March 1956 Captain Walter L.M. Brown: March 1956-March 1958 Captain Thomas M. Masterman: March 1958-December 1959 Captain Alan F. Black: December 1959-December 1961 Captain Adrian P.W. Northey: December 1961-October 1963 Captain Hinton J.C. Shand: October 1963-September 1966 Captain Denis W. Sherwood: September 1966-September 1967 Captain Alan G. Smalley: September 1967-September 1969 Captain James W.D. Cook: September 1969-February 1971 Captain William R.H. Lapper: February 1971-February 1973 Captain Ronald D. Butt: February 1973-February 1975 Captain Peter I.F. Beeson: February 1975-February 1977

264

Director, R.N.Staff College (until 1997): Captain the Hon. Reginald A.R.Plunkett-Ernle- Erle-Drax: March 1919-July 1922 Captain Edward A.Astley-Rushton: July 1922-July 1925 Captain William M.James: July 1925-January 1926 Captain Geoffrey Blake: January 1926-November 1927 Captain Charles J.C.Little: November 1927-March 1930 Captain Thomas F.P.Calvert: March 1930-April 1932 Captain Robert H.T.Raikes: April 1932-August 1934 Rear-Admiral Bertram C.Watson: August 1934-February 1937 Captain William S.Chalmers: February 1937-January 1939 Captain Richard J.S.Scott: January 1939-September 1939 Captain John W. Durnford: October 1943-September 1944 Captain Charles T. Addis: September 1944-November 1946 Captain Reginald M.J. Hutton: November 1946-December 1948 Captain John W.M. Eaton: December 1948-March 1951 Captain Robert A. Currie: March 1951-March 1953 Captain J. David Luce: March 1953-July 1954 Captain R. Alastair Ewing: July 1954-August 1956 Captain Arthur R. Hezlet: August 1956-December 1957 Captain Joseph C.C. Henley: December 1957-March 1959 Captain Norman L.A. Jewell: March 1959-March 1961 Captain Charles P. Mills: March 1961-September 1962 Captain Alan W.F. Sutton: September 1962-January 1965 Captain Thomas H.P. Wilson: January 1965-January 1967 Captain Peter G. Loasby: January 1967-February 1969 Captain Peter G.R. Mitchell: February 1969-October 1971 Captain Anthony J. Cooke: October 1971-June 1973 Captain Thomas C. Briggs: June 1973-February 1976 Captain David E. Macey; February 1976-October 1977 Captain William T.T. Pakenham: October 1977-May 1979 Captain Brian R. Longworth: May 1979-April 1981 Captain David H. Morse: April 1981-July 1982 Captain David Pentreath: July 1982-September 1984 Captain Geoffrey A. Eades: September 1984-December 1986 Captain Jeremy J. Blackham: December 1986-July 1989 Captain David M. Jeffreys: July 1989-

Commodore John H.A.J. Armstrong: October 1994-1995 Commodore Antony L. Chilton: 1995-1997 265

Director, Maritime Tactical School :

Captain Geoffrey Barnard: April 1948-December 1949 Captain John G. Hewitt: December 1949-January 1952 Captain Ralph G. Swallow: January 1952-March 1954 Captain Philip L. Saumarez: March 1954-August 1956 Captain Horace R. Law: August 1956-August 1958 Captain John H. Walwyn: August 1958-November 1959 Captain Terence W.B. Shaw: November 1959-June 1962 Captain Henry R. Hewlett: June 1962-December 1963 Captain Dennis H. Mason: December 1963-March 1965 Captain Denis Jermain: March 1965-August 1967 Captain William R.D. Gerard-Pearse: August 1967-October 1969 Captain David Hepworth: October 1969-June 1971 Captain Stephen H. Stuart: June 1971-December 1973 Captain R. Michael Burgoyne: December 1973-November 1975 Captain D. Conrad Jenkin: November 1975-January 1978 Captain Patrick J. Symons: January 1978-January 1980 Captain Michael L’E. Tudor-Craig: January 1980-September 1981 Captain Gordon F. Walwyn: September 1981-June 1983 Captain Hugh M. Balfour: June 1983-June 1985 Captain Colin H.D. Cooke-Priest: June 1985-May 1987 Captain Jeremy T. Sanders: May 1987-1989 Captain Stephen Taylor: 1989-

266

Inspecting Captain of Boys’ Training Ships(“HMS Impregnable”) (until 19 :

Captain William Gore Jones: June 1868- Captain John C. Wilson: January 1872-January 1875 Captain William H. Edye: January 1875-January 1878 Captain Henry D. Hickley: January 1878-January 1880 Captain Richard Bradshaw: January 1880-January 1883 Captain Joseph E.M. Wilson: January 1883-March 1886 Captain Hilary G. Andoe: March 1886-September 1889 Captain Robert H. Harris: September 1889-April 1893 Captain Day H. Bosanquet: April 1893-April 1896 Captain Pelham Aldrich: April 1896-January 1899 Captain Arthur C.B. Bromley: January 1899-November 1901 Captain Edward H. Gamble: November 1901-May 1904 Captain Robert A.J. Montgomerie: May 1904-July 1905 Captain Cecil Burney: July 1905-November 1907 Captain George E. Patey: November 1907-February 1909 Captain Herbert W. Savory: February 1909-February 1911 Captain John M. De Robeck: February-December 1911 Captain Edmund R. Pears: December 1911-

267

Captain, “HMS Britannia” Training Ship (until 1905)/Captain, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (from 1905):

Captain Robert Harris: January 1859-October 1862 Captain Richard A. Powell: October 1862-April 1866 Captain George G. Randolph: April 1866-September 1867 Captain John Corbett: September 1867-August 1871 Captain the Hon. Fitzgerald A.C. Foley: August 1871-August 1874 Captain William Graham: August 1874-August 1877 Captain Henry Fairfax: August 1877-August 1880 Captain Richard Wells: August 1880-September 1883 Captain Nathaniel Bowden-Smith: September 1883-September 1886 Captain Frederick G.D. Bedford: September 1886-September 1889 Captain Noel S.F. Digby: September 1889-September 1892 Captain Alan B. Thomas: September 1892-April 1894 Captain Arthur W. Moore: April 1894-April 1897 Captain the Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe: April 1897-March 1900 Captain Michael P. O’Callaghan: March 1900-April 1903 Captain Charles H. Cross: April 1903-May 1905 Captain William E. Goodenough: May 1905-August 1907 Captain Trevylyan D.W. Napier: August 1907-July 1910 Captain Hugh Evan-Thomas: July 1910-July 1912 Captain the Hon. Victor A. Stanley: July 1912-August 1914 Rear-Admiral Trevylyan D.W. Napier: September-December 1914 Captain Edmond Hyde Parker: December 1914-February 1915 Captain Norman C. Palmer: February 1915-May 1916 Rear-Admiral William G.E.Ruck Keene: May 1916-February 1919 Captain Eustace la T.Leatham: February 1919-February 1921 Captain Francis A.Marten: February 1921-January 1923 Captain the Hon.Herbert Meade: January 1923-February 1926 Captain Martin E. Dunbar-Nasmith: February 1926-February 1929 Captain Sidney J. Meyrick: February 1929-December 1931 Captain Norman A. Wodehouse: December 1931-December 1934 Captain Reginald V. Holt: December 1934-December 1936 Captain Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton: December 1936-November 1939 Captain Robert L. B. Cunliffe: December 1939-April 1942 Captain Edward A. Aylmer: April 1942-December 1943 Captain Gerald H. Warner: December 1943-January 1946 Captain Peveril B.R.W. William-Powlett: January 1946-February 1948 Captain Hugh W. Faulkner: February 1948-August 1949 268

Captain Norman V. Dickinson: August 1949-April 1951 Captain Richard T. White: April 1951-August 1953 Captain William G. Crawford: August 1953-April 1956 Captain William J. Munn: April 1956-August 1958 Captain Frank H.E. Hopkins: August 1958-August 1960 Captain Horace R. Law: August 1960-December 1961 Captain W. John Parker: December 1961-September 1963 Captain John E.L. Martin: September 1963-August 1966 Captain Ian W. Jamieson: August 1966-April 1968 Captain David Williams: April 1968-September 1970 Captain A. Gordon Tait: September 1970-August 1972 Captain John M. Forbes: August 1972-September 1974 Captain Michael A. Higgs: September 1974-September 1976 Captain Paul W. Greening: September 1976-October 1978 Captain Nicholas J.S. Hunt: October 1978-June 1980 Captain J.Julian R. Oswald: June 1980-June 1982 Captain Timothy M. Bevan: June 1982-September 1984 Captain George M. Tullis: September 1984-1987 Captain John R. Brigstocke: 1987-1989 Captain J. Robert Shiffner: 1989-September 1991 Captain Richard G. Hastilow: September 1991-September 1993 Captain Simon Moore: September 1993-September 1995 Captain Anthony P. Masterton-Smith: September 1995-January 1998 Commodore Roy A.G. Clare: January 1998-September 1999 Commodore Mark W.G. Kerr: September 1999-January 2002 Commodore C. Anthony Johnstone-Burt: January 2002-May 2004 Commodore Richard J. Ibbotson: May 2004-2005 Commodore Timothy R. Harris: 2005-April 2007 Commodore Martin B. Alabaster: April 2007-September 2008 Commodore John K. Moores: September 2008-March 2011 Commodore Simon P.Williams: March 2011-September 2012 Captain Jeremy P. Kyd: September 2012-February 2014 Captain Henry Duffy: February 2014-September 2016 Captain Jolyon Woodard: September 2016-

269

Captain, Gunnery School, Portsmouth(“HMS Excellent”)( until 1985):

Captain Richard S. Hewlett: June 1857-July 1863 Captain Astley Cooper-Key: July 1863-September 1866 Captain Arthur W.A. Hood: September 1866-August 1869 Captain Henry Boys: August 1869-May 1874 Captain Thomas Brandreth: May 1874-January 1877 Captain Frederick A. Herbert: January 1877-March 1880 Captain John O. Hopkins: March 1880-June 1881 Captain William Codrington: June 1881-April 1883 Captain John A. Fisher: April 1883-November 1886 Captain Compton E. Domvile: November 1886-June 1890 Captain Hugo L. Pearson: June 1890-June 1893 Captain Lewis A. Beaumont: June 1893-July 1894 Captain Archibald L. Douglas: July 1894-November 1895 Captain Edmund F. Jeffreys: November 1895-August 1897 Captain William H. May: August 1897-November 1900 Captain Arthur Barrow: November 1900-April 1903 Captain Percy M. Scott: April 1903-March 1905 Captain Frederick T.Hamilton: March 1905-July 1907 Captain Reginald G. O. Tupper: July 1907-August 1910 Captain Frederick C. T. Tudor: August 1910-June 1912 Captain Morgan Singer: June 1912-August 1914 Captain Cole C.Fowler: August 1914-March 1917 Captain Henry R. Crooke: March 1917-June 1918 Captain Robert N. Bax: June 1918-June 1920 Captain Francis H.Mitchell: June 1920-August 1922 Captain Arthur J.Davies: August 1922-August 1924 Captain the Hon. Matthew R. Best: August 1924-August 1926 Captain Francis Loftus Tottenham: August 1926-April 1928 Captain Charles A. Scott: April 1928-May 1930 Captain Guy C.C.Royle: May 1930-July 1932 Captain Edward O.B.S.Osborne: July 1932-July 1933 Captain A.Francis Pridham: July 1933-October 1935 Captain Arthur J.Power: October 1935-September 1937 Captain Harold M.Burrough: September 1937-December 1938 Captain Arthur F.E.Palliser: December 1938-May 1940 Captain E.J. Patrick Brind: May-November 1940 Captain Oliver Bevir: November 1940-June 1941 Captain Herbert A. Packer: June 1941-January 1943 270

Captain Robert D. Oliver: January 1943-January 1944 Captain William G. Agnew: February 1944-September 1945 Captain William R. Slayter: September 1945-January 1947 Captain Patrick V. McLaughin: January 1947-January 1949 Captain Stephen H. Carlill: January 1949-April 1950 Captain Robert F. Elkins: April 1950-April 1952 Captain Varyl C. Begg: April 1952-March 1954 Captain William F.H.C. Rutherford: March 1954-January 1956 Captain Roddie Casement: January 1956-January 1958 Captain Hugh C. Martell: January 1958-September 1959 Captain James S. Dalglish: September 1959-August 1961 Captain John G. Wells: August 1961-February 1963 Captain Hubert H. Dannreuther: February 1963-October 1964 Captain Arthur M. Power: October 1964-August 1966 Captain Godfrey B. Teale: August 1966-January 1969 Captain G. Roger Villar: January 1969-November 1970 Captain Peter D. Nichol: November 1970-September 1972 Captain Rhoderick S. Falconer: September 1972-October 1974 Captain Michael C.M. Mansergh: October 1974-October 1976 Captain Peter Lucas: October 1976-October 1978 Captain Richard K.S. Bethell: October 1978-February 1981 Captain John J.Streatfield-James: February 1981-November 1982 Captain James T. Lord: November 1982-March 1985

271

Captain, Devonport Gunnery School(“HMS Cambridge”) (until 19 ):

Captain Arthur W. Jerningham: January 1857-April 1862 Captain Leopold G. Heath: April 1862-April 1863 Captain Charles J.F. Ewart: April 1863-May 1867 Captain the Hon. Fitzgerald A.C. Foley: May 1867-May 1871 Captain Frederick A. Herbert: May 1871-August 1874 Captain the Hon. William J. Ward: August 1874-August 1877 Captain Thomas Le H. Ward: August 1877-August 1880 Captain Alexander Buller: August 1880-August 1883 Captain George S. Bosanquet: August 1883-August 1886 Captain Henry F. Cleveland: August 1886-October 1889 Captain Henry J. Carr: October 1889-January 1892 Captain Archibald L. Douglas: January 1892-July 1894 Captain Richard H. Hamond: July 1894-December 1896 Captain William M. Lang: December 1896-August 1898 Captain Robert W. Craigie: August 1898-August 1900 Captain Charles R. Arbuthnot: August 1900-August 1903 Captain Francis J. Foley: August 1903-January 1906 Captain Paul W. Bush: January 1906-April 1907 Captain John B. Eustace: April 1907-March 1910 Captain Vivian H.G. Bernard: March 1910-May 1912 Captain the Hon. Algernon D.E.H. Boyle: May 1912-August 1914 Captain Henry M. Doughty: September-December 1914 Captain Charles F. Thorp: December 1914-June 1915 Captain John M. Casement: November 1918-November 1920 Captain George R.B. Blount: November 1920-May 1923 Captain William F. Sells: May 1923-July 1925 Captain Bernard W.M. Fairbairn: July 1925-April 1927 Captain Edward O. Cochrane: April 1927-April 1929 Ca[ptain Edward O.B.S. Osborne: April 1929-July 1930 Captain Cyril G. Sedgwick: July 1930-June 1932 Captain Wilfred N. Custance: June 1932-August 1934 Captain E. Neville Syfret: August 1934-December 1935 Captain Alexander R. Hammick: December 1935-May 1938 Captain Eustace Rotherham: May 1938-November 1939

272

Captain, Sheerness Gunnery School (from 1892); Chatham from 1908):

Under Flag Captain, The Nore: 1892-1900 Captain Charles Campbell: January 1900-December 1901 Captain Charles H. Adair: January 1902-February 1905 Captain Henry M.T. Tudor: February 1905-May 1906 Captain Alexander A.C. Galloway: July-December 1906 Captain Charles H. Coke: January 1907-May 1908 Captain Alfred E.A. Grant: June 1908-March 1910 Captain Brian H.F. Barttelot: March 1910-March 1912 Captain Charles W. Keighly-Peach: March 1912-May 1914 Captain Cunningham R. de C. Foot: May 1914-1915 Captain Cyril S. Townsend: January 1919-January 1921 Captain Arthur G. Craufurd: January 1921-January 1923 Captain Wellwood G.C. Maxwell: January 1923-February 1925 Captain Charles W. Round-Turner: February 1925-October 1926 Captain Hubert Ardill: October 1926-March 1927 Captain John C. Hamilton: March 1927-March 1929 Captain Stephen St.L. Moore: March-June 1929 Captain F. Thomas B. Tower: June 1929-March 1931 Captain Arthur N. Dowding: March 1931-January 1933 Captain Denham M.T. Bedford: January 1933-May 1935 Captain A. Lumley St. G. Lyster: May 1935-May 1936 Captain Arthur D. Read: May 1936-May 1938 Captain Percy Todd: May 1938-November 1939 Captain Hubert G.D. Acland: November 1939-February 1941

273

Captain, Torpedo School(“HMS Vernon”)( from 1876 until 1986):

Captain William Arthur: April 1876-June 1879 Captain William E. Gordon: June 1879-February 1883 Captain Albert Hastings Markham: February 1883-May 1886 Captain Samuel Long: May 1886-January 1889 Captain Arthur K. Wilson: January 1889-February 1892 Captain William H. Hall: February 1892-November 1893 Captain Sir Baldwin Wake-Walker, Bt.: November 1893-November 1895 Captain John Durnford: November 1895-October 1899 Captain Charles G. Robinson: October 1899-February 1902 Captain George le C. Egerton: February 1902-September 1904 Captain Henry B. Jackson: September-December 1904 Captain Charles J. Briggs: December 1904-May 1907 Captain Douglas A. Gamble: May 1907-October 1908 Captain Robert S. Phipps Hornby: October 1908-November 1911 Captain William C. M. Nicholson: November 1911-September 1914 Captain Frederick L. Field: September 1914-September 1915 Captain Harry L. d’E. Skipwith: September 1915-July 1918 Captain Frederick C.U.Vernon-Wentworth: July 1918-March 1919 Captain Arthur K. Waistell: March 1919-April 1920 Captain Christopher R. Payne: April 1920-April 1922 Captain John Derwent Allen: April 1922-November 1924 Captain Henry K.Kitson: November 1924-November 1926 Captain Nicholas E. Archdale: November 1926-November 1928 Captain Henry D. Bridges: November 1928-November 1930 Captain Stephen D. Tillard: November 1930-August 1932 Captain Alfred H.Taylor: August 1932-August 1934 Captain Roderick B.T.Miles: August 1934-September 1935 Captain Algernon U.Willis: September 1935-April 1938 Captain Denis W.Boyd: April 1938-December 1939 Rear-Admiral Brian Egerton: December 1939-June 1943 Captain Harold E. Morse: June 1943-September 1944 Captain Norman V. Grace: September 1944-January 1946 Captain John Hughes-Hallett: January 1946-May 1948 Captain Wilfrid J.C. Robertson: May 1948-August 1950 Captain Clarence D. Howard-Johnston: August 1950-October 1952 Captain Nicholas A. Copeman: October 1952-December 1954 Captain John Grant: December 1954-December 1956 Captain Edward A. Blundell: December 1956-February 1959 274

Captain Morgan C. Giles: February 1959-January 1961 Captain Hardress L. Lloyd: January 1961-April 1963 Captain Douglas M.H. Stobie: April 1963-June 1965 Captain Robert E. Lloyd: June 1965-July 1967 Captain William P.B. Barber: July 1967-April 1969 Captain Thomas K. Edge-Partington: April 1969-October 1970 Captain Stuart M.W. Farquharson-Roberts: October 1970-November 1972 Captain Robert S. Browning: November 1972-July 1974 Captain Geoffrey D. Trist: July 1974-July 1976 Captain E. Michael S. O’Kelly: July 1976-August 1978 Captain Stuart K. Sutherland: August 1978-December 1980 Captain George Oxley: December 1980-March 1983 Captain Jonathan D.W. Husband: March 1983-1986

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Captain, Signals School(“HMS Mercury” from 1941)(until 1993):

Captain Allan F. Everett: August 1906-1908 Captain Edward M. Phillpotts: January 1911-July 1912 Captain Frederick L. Field: July 1912-September 1914 Captain Lionel G. Preston: November 1920-November 1922 Captain Claude Seymour: November 1922-April 1925 Captain John K. im Thurn: April 1925-January 1928 Captain James S.C. Salmond: January 1928-January 1930 Captain William B. Mackenzie: January 1930-January 1932 Captain Herbert Fitzherbert: January 1932-January 1934 Captain Richard H.L. Bevan: January 1934-August 1935 Captain James W.S. Dorling: August 1935-August 1937 Captain Arthur J.L. Murray: August 1937-March 1939 Captain Angus E.M.B. Cunninghame-Graham: March 1939-May 1941 Captain Gerald H. Warner: August 1941-December 1943 Captain Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff: December 1943-January 1946 Captain Charles L. Firth: January 1946-April 1948 Captain John H.F. Crombie: April 1948-September 1950 Captain John G.T. Inglis: September 1950-October 1951 Captain Peter Dawnay: October 1951-January 1954 Captain John R.B. Longden: January 1954-May 1955 Captain Alexander H.C. Gordon Lennox: May 1955-March 1957 Captain Charles B. Brooke: March 1957-January 1959 Captain John A.C. Henley: January 1959-August 1960 Captain Peter N. Howes: August 1960-December 1961 Captain David E. Bromley-Martin: December 1961-December 1963 Captain David V. Morgan: December 1963-April 1966 Captain J. Rae McKaig: April 1966-April 1968 Captain Sir Peter Anson, Bt.: April 1968-April 1970 Captain Barrie H. Kent: April 1970-October 1972 Captain Roger C. Morgan: October 1972-April 1975 Captain Derek A.P. O’Reilly: April 1975-January 1977 Captain John M. Tait: January 1977-October 1978 Captain Sydney D.S. Bailey: October 1978-January 1981 Captain Gerald A. Plumer: January 1981-January 1983 Captain William W.F. Chatterton Dickson: January 1983-1985 Captain Francis D. Lowe: 1985-1988 Captain Anthony J.C. Morrow: 1988-March 1991 Captain Paul R. Sutermeister: March 1991-1993 276

Captain, School of Maritime Operations(“HMS Mercury”/ “HMS Dryad”)(Navigation and Directional School until ; Maritime Warfare School from (“HMS Collingwood” from 2002)):

Captain Henry F. Oliver: June 1903-February 1907 Captain Laurence E. Power: February 1907-February 1910 Captain Henry W. Grant: February 1910-January 1912 Captain Edward L. Booty: January 1912-November 1914 Cap[tain Arthur C.S. Hughes D’Aeth: February 1919-December 1920 Captain Oliver E. Leggett: November 1920-November 1922 Captain Harold O. Reinold: November 1922-December 1924 Captain John W. Carrington: December 1924-December 1926 Captain James D. Campbell: December 1926-December 1928 Captain James A.G. Troup: December 1928-June 1930 Captain Wilbraham T.R. Ford: June 1930-June 1932 Captain Oswald H. Dawson: June 1932-July 1934 Captain Ernest J. Spooner: July 1934-August 1936 Captain William H. Gell: August 1936-May 1937 Captain A. Robin M. Bridge: May 1937-June 1939 Captain Henry A. Rowley: June-December 1939 Captain Thomas C.Armstrong: December 1939-January 1944 Captain Brian B. Schofield: January 1944-February 1945 Captain Charles F.W. Norris: February 1945-December 1946 Captain Eric G. A. Clifford: January 1947-December 1948 Captain Charles A.G. Nichols: December 1948-December 1950 Captain Anthony H. Thorold: December 1950-January 1953 Captain Martin J. Evans: January 1953-January 1955 Captain Richard G. Tosswill: January 1955-May 1956 Captain Richard B. Honnywill: May 1956-June 1957 Captain David S. Tibbits: June 1957-October 1959 Captain F. Brian P. Brayne-Nicholls: October 1959-October 1961 Captain Peter S. Wyatt: October 1961-August 1963 Captain David B.N. Mellis: August 1963-July 1965 Captain Martin S. Ollivant: July 1965-September 1967 Captain Ronald D. Butt: September 1967-August 1969 Captain Alan G. Watson: August 1969-June 1972 Captain Dennis W. Foster: June 1972-October 1974 Captain Gwynedd I. Pritchard: October 1974-May 1976 Captain John F. Cadell: May 1976-June 1979 Captain Geoffrey T.J.O. Dalton: June 1979-September 1981 277

Captain Anthony N. Barnden: September 1981-July 1983 Captain John(Jock) C.K. Slater: July 1983-May 1985 Captain Anthony M. Norman: May 1985-October 1986 Captain Jake D.L. Backus: October 1986-1989 Captain Anthony G.M.A. Provest: 1989-January 1992 Captain Peter M. Franklyn: January 1992-September 1993 Captain Andrew S. Ritchie: September 1993-September 1995 Commodore R.John Lippiett: September 1995-June 1997 Commodore John R. Hance: June 1997-October 1999 Commodore John F. Rodley: October 1999-July 2001 Commodore Philip L. Wilcocks: July 2001-April 2004 Commodore Adrian J. Nance: April 2004-March 2006 Commodore Charles P.R. Montgomery: March 2006-March 2007 Commodore Steven R. Kirby: March 2007 June 2010 Commodore Timothy M. Lowe: June 2010-December 2011 Commodore Michael P. Mansergh: March 2012-August 2013 Captain Steven Dainton: August 2013-April 2015 Captain Andrew A. Jordan: April 2015-

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Senior Naval Member, Directing Staff, National Defence College( Joint Services Staff College until 1971; Joint Service Defence College from 1983 until 1997 )

Captain Manley L. Power: December 1946-October 1948 Captain Ralph L. Fisher: October 1948-1950 Captain George K. Collett: 1950-June 1952 Captain Ralph C. Medley: June 1952-April 1954 Captain Roger B.N. Hicks: April 1954-June 1956 Captain Talbot L. Eddison: June 1956-December 1957 Captain Edward A.S. Bailey: December 1957-December 1959 Captain David E. Bromley-Martin: December 1959-November 1961 Captain Edmund S. Carver: November 1961-November 1963 Captain John M. Townley: November 1963-August 1966 Captain Raymond P. Rannreuther: August 1966-March 1968 Captain Gerald E.Sampson: March 1968-July 1970 Captain Hugh P. Janion: July 1970-August 1972 Captain Michael A. Higgs: August 1972-September 1974 Captain Herbert B. Parker: September 1974-September 1976 Captain Geoffrey D. Trist: September 1976-October 1978 Captain Peter N. Hamilton-Jones: October 1978-February 1981 Captain Sydney D.S. Bailey: February 1981-July 1983 Captain Anthony R. Wood: July 1983-April 1985 Captain Timothy R. Lee: April 1985-1987 Captain C. Christopher Morgan: 1987-March 1989 Captain Patrick McLaren: March 1989-

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Captain, New Entry Training Establishment(“HMS Raleigh”): Rear-Admiral Charles O. Alexander: October 1939-March 1944 Captain Harold Hickling: September 1944-January 1945 Captain Alexander H. Maxwell-Hyslop: January 1945-June 1946 Captain George F. Stevens-Guille: June 1946-February 1948 Captain Philip C. Taylor: February 1948-May 1949 Captain Iain G. Maclean: May 1949-December 1950 Captain William E.C. Davy: December 1950-September 1953 Captain Ivan O. Backhouse: September 1953-June 1955 Captain William G. Pulvertaft: June 1955-July 1957 Captain Archibald G. Forman: July 1957-May 1959 Captain John A. Osborne: May 1959-June 1961 Captain George C. Crowley: June 1961-May 1963 Captain Denis Jermain: May 1963-February 1965 Captain Peter White: February 1965-March 1967 Captain Peter G.R. Mitchell: March 1967-February 1969 Captain James F.R. Weir: February 1969-April 1971 Captain Malcolm C. Denman: April 1971-July 1973 Captain Henry E. Howard: July 1973-February 1976 Captain Robert W.F. Gerken: February 1976-February 1978 Captain Richard E. Lambert: February 1978-October 1979 Captain John Jacobsen: October 1979-March 1982 Captain Brian R. Outhwaite: March 1982-February 1984 Captain Brian T. Brown: February 1984-1985 Captain Robert C.F. Hill: 1986-1987 Captain Peter J. Grindal: October 1987-1989 Captain John C.L. Wright: 1989-1991 Captain Richard O. Irwin: April 1990-October 1992 Captain Peter A. Dunt: October 1992-1994 Captain Richard A.Y. Bridges: 1994-September 1995 Commodore Hugh W. Rickard: September 1995-1998 Commodore Roger G. Lockwood: 1998-2000 Commodore Laurence P. Brokenshire: 2000-July 2003 Commodore David W. Pond: July 2003-January 2006 Commodore W. John Keegan: January 2006-January 2008 Commodore S. Jonathan Woodcock: January 2008-December 2009 Captain Stephen Murdoch: December 2009-September 2012 Captain Robert Fancy: September 2012-September 2014 Captain Robert J.A. Bellfield: September 2014-September 2016 Captain Eleanor L. Ablett: September 2016-August 2018 280

Captain, Boys’ Training Establishment(“HMS Ganges”)(until 1976):

Captain Ernest G. Barton: January 1907-January 1909 Captain Charles L. Vaughan-Lee: January 1909-February 1911 Captain Cecil S. Hickley: February 1911-May 1913 Rear-Admiral George C. Cayley: May 1913-April 1918 Rear-Admiral Cecil S. Hickley: April 1918-March 1919 Captain Francis G. St.John: March 1919-March 1921 Captain Ernest Wigram: March 1921-March 1923 Captain Robin C. Dalglish: March 1923-May 1925 Captain Percy L.H. Noble: May 1925-May 1927 Captain Wilbraham T. R. Ford: May 1927-May 1929 Captain Francis M. Austin: May 1929-May 1931 Captain Everard J. Hardman-Jones: May 1931-February 1933 Captain Hugh H. Rogers: February 1933-August 1935 Captain Charles O. Alexander: August 1935-August 1937 Captain Eric R. Corson: August 1937-November 1939 Captain Francis W.H. Goolden: November 1939-May 1940 Captain Walter H.G. Fallowfield: May 1940-April 1944 Captain George L.D. Gibbs: April 1944-November 1945 Captain Eric W. Bush: November 1945-April 1948 Captain W. Geoffrey A. Robson: April 1948-April 1950 Captain Duncan C. Hill: April 1950-April 1951 Captain John F. Whitfield: April 1951-March 1953 Captain Earl Cairns: March 1953-December 1954 Captain Michael Le Fanu: December 1954-January 1957 Captain Robert D. Franks: January 1957-January 1959 Captain Hugh S. Mackenzie: January 1959-November 1960 Captain John R. Gower: November 1960-July 1962 Captain C. Patrick Norman: July 1962-December 1963 Captain B.C. Godfrey Place: December 1963-October 1965 Captain Frank W. Watson: October 1965-December 1967 Captain Derek W. Napper: December 1967-November 1969 Captain Maurice J. Button: November 1969-November 1971 Captain William N. Ash: November 1971-October 1973 Captain J.Murray C. Dunlop: October 1973-1976

281

Captain, Boys’ Training Establishment(“HMS St.Vincent”) (from 1927 until 1969):

Captain Percy L.H. Noble: May 1927-February 1928 Captain Wellwood G.C. Maxwell: February 1928-May 1930 Captain Robert H.T. Raikes: May 1930-April 1932 Captain Evelyn C.O. Thomson: April 1932-April 1934 Captain Gerald C. Harrison: April 1934-September 1936 Captain Harold T. Baiilie-Grohman: September 1936-September 1938 Captain Guy L. Warren: September 1938-June 1940 Captain Lionel C.P. Tudway: June 1940-April 1942 Rear-Admiral L. Stanley Holbrook: April 1942-December 1945 Captain John W.M. Eaton: December 1945-December 1947 Captain Charles P. Frend: December 1947-January 1950 Captain George C. Colville: January 1950-January 1952 Captain Michael S. Townsend: January 1952-April 1953 Captain Gilbert L. Farnfield: April 1953-September 1955 Captain John O.C. Hayes: September 1955-September 1957 Captain Raymond S. Hawkins: September 1957-September 1959 Captain A. John R. White: September 1959-December 1961 Captain Michael N. Tufnell: December 1961-August 1962 Captain Alan R. Aldous: August 1962-August 1964 Captain Charles B. Fetherston-Dilke: August 1964-July 1966 Captain Michael H. Griffin: July 1966-1969

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(f) ROYAL MARINES

INDEX:

Amphibious Warfare, Chief of: page 283 Chatham Group, Commander: page 282 Chief of Staff: page 281 Commandant-General/Adjutant-General/Deputy Adjutant- General: page 280 Deputy Commandant-General/Director of the Royal Marines: page 285 Commando Brigade, 3 rd , Commander: page 284 Commando Forces, Commander: page 283 Commando Training Centre, Commandant: page 285 Plymouth Group, Commander: page 282 Portsmouth Group, Commander: page 282 Training and Reserves, Commander: page 283

283

Commandant-General, Royal Marines(Deputy Adjutant-General until 1914 ; Adjutant-General from 1914 until 1943):

Major-General Sir Charles W. Adair: September 1878-September 1883 General Sir John W.C. Williams: September 1883-August 1888 General Sir Howard S. Jones: August 1888-August 1893 General Sir Henry B. Tuson: August 1893-March 1900 Lieutenant-General John I. Morris: March 1900-June 1902 Lieutenant-General Sir William P. Wright: June 1902-June 1907 General Sir William T. Adair: June 1907-June 1911 General Sir William C. Nicholls: June 1911-June 1916 Major-General Sir David Mercer: June 1916-July 1920 Major-General Gunning M. Campbell: July-November 1920 General Sir Herbert E. Blumberg: December 1920-March 1924 General Sir Alexander R.H. Hutchison: March 1924-December 1927 General Sir Lewis S.T. Halliday: December 1927-June 1930 General Sir Richard V.T. Ford: June 1930-October 1933 General Sir Richard F.C. Foster: October 1933-October 1936 General Sir William W. Godfrey: October 1936-October 1939 General Sir Alan G.B. Bourne: October 1939-January 1943 General Sir Thomas L. Hunton: January 1943-April 1946 General Sir R.A. Dallas Brooks: April 1946-May 1949 General Sir Leslie C. Hollis: May 1949-May 1952 General Sir John C. Westall: May 1952-August 1955 General Sir Campbell R. Hardy: August 1955-February 1959 General Sir Ian H. Riches: February 1959-February 1962 General Sir Malcolm C. Cartwright-Taylor: February 1962-February 1965 General Sir Norman H. Tailyour: February 1965-November 1968 General Sir Peter W.C. Hellings: November 1968-November 1971 General Sir B. Ian S. Gourlay: November 1971-April 1975 Lieutenant-General Sir Peter J.F. Whiteley: April 1975-February 1977 Lieutenant-General Sir John C.C. Richards: February 1977-April 1981 Lieutenant-General Sir Steuart R. Pringle, Bt.: April 1981-April 1984 Lieutenant-General Sir Michael C.L. Wilkins: April 1984-May 1987 Lieutenant-General Sir J. Martin C. Garrod: May 1987-June 1990 Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Y. La R. Beverley: June 1990-April 1993 Lieutenant-General Sir Robert J. Ross: April 1993-March 1996 Major-General David A.S. Pennefather: March 1996-October 1998 Major-General Robert H.G. Fulton: October 1998-March 2001 Major-General Robert A. Fry: March 2001-May 2002 284

Major-General Anthony A. Milton: May 2002-February 2004 Major-General David Wilson: February-August 2004 Major-General James B. Dutton: August 2004-June 2006 Major-General Garry S. Robison: June 2006-June 2009 Major-General Andrew Salmon: June 2009-February 2010 Major-General Francis H.R. Howes: February 2010-December 2011 Major-General Edward G.M. Davis: December 2011-June 2014 Major-General Martin L. Smith: June 2014-June 2016 Major-General Robert A. Magowan: June 2016-January 2018 Major-General Charles R. Stickland: January 2018-June 2019 Major-General Matthew J. Holmes: June 2019-

Chief of Staff :

Major-General Robin H. Campbell: November 1944-September 1946 Major-General Vivian D. Thomas: September 1946-May 1950 Major-General Wilfrid I. Nonweiler: May 1950-September 1951 Major-General John C. Westall: September 1951-May 1952 Major-General Campbell R. Hardy: May 1952-May 1955 Major-General Frank C. Horton: May 1955-August 1958 Major-General Reginald C. de M. Leathes: August 1958-November 1960 Major-General Robert A. Pigot: November 1960-November 1964 Major-General Peter W.C. Hellings: November 1964-1967 Major-General Nigel H.D. McGill: 1967-May 1968 Major-General Ian S. Harrison: May 1968-June 1970 Major-General Patrick R. Kay: June 1970-February 1974 Major-General Patrick J. Ovens: February 1974-August 1976 Major-General Robert P.W. Wall: August 1976-September 1979 Major-General Sir Steuart R. Pringle, Bt.: September 1979-February 1981 Major-General Michael C.L. Wlkins: February 1981-May 1982 Major-General John C. Hardy: May 1982-July 1984 Major-General J. Martin C. Garrod: July 1984-February 1987 Major-General John St.J. Grey: February 1987-July 1988 Major-General Henry Y. La T. Beverley: July 1988-May 1990 Major-General Andrew F. Whitehead: May 1990-1992 Major-General Andrew M. Keeling: 1992-1993

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Commander, Portsmouth Group (from 1946 until 1970):

Major-General Hubert T. Newman: Decemmber 1946-November 1948 Major-General John E. Leech-Porter: November 1948-November 1949 Major-General Humphrey T. Tollemache: November 1949-May 1952 Major-General C. Farndale Phillips: May 1952-June 1954 Major-General James L. Moulton: June 1954-September 1957 Major-General Ian H. Riches: September 1957-February 1959 Major-General Reginald W. Madoc: February 1959-January 1961 Major-General Reginald C. de M. Leathes: January 1961-October 1962 Major-General Robert D. Houghton: October 1962-September 1964 Major-General Nigel H.D. McGill: September 1964-1967 Major-General Peter W.C. Hellings: 1967-August 1968 Major-General B. Ian S. Gourlay: August 1968-October 1970

Commander, Plymouth Group (until 1970):

Major-General Charles R. W. Lamplough; November 1946-November 1949 Major-General John E. Leech-Porter: November 1949-November 1951 Major-General Richard F. Cornwall: November 1951-November 1954 Major-General Halford D. Fellowes: November 1954-August 1957 Major-General Reginald W. Madoc: August 1957-February 1959 Major-General Malcolm C. Cartwright-Taylor: February 1959-February 1962 Major-General Norman H. Tailyour: February 1962-February 1965 Major-General Ferris N. Grant: February 1965-April 1968 Major-General Anthony P. Willasey-Wilsey: April 1968-October 1970

Commander, Chatham Group (until 1950):

Major-General Archibald M. Craig: 1942-1944

Major-General Arthur R. Chater: 1946-1948 Major-General Robert A.R. Neville: 1948-August 1950

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Chief of Amphibious Warfare (until 1962):

Major-General Godfrey E. Wildman-Lushington: June 1947-October 1950 Major-General Vivian D. Thomas: October 1950-June 1954 Major-General C. Farndale Phillips: June 1954-August 1957 Major-General James L. Moulton: August 1957-September 1961 Major-General Robert D. Houghton: September 1961-1962

Commander, Commando Forces (from 1970):

Major-General Peter J.F. Whiteley: October 1970-July 1972 Major-General John I.H. Owen: July 1972-October 1973 Major-General E.G. Derek Pounds: October 1973-March 1976 Major-General Roderick J. Ephraums: March 1976-February 1978 Major-General Sir Steuart R. Pringle, Bt.: February 1978-August 1979 Major-General Sir J. Jeremy Moore: August 1979-May 1982 Major-General Michael C.L. Wilkins: May 1982-February 1984 Major-General John St.J. Grey: February 1984-January 1987 Major-General Nicholas F. Vaux: January 1987-March 1990 Major-General Robert J. Ross: March 1990-1993

Commander, Training and Reserves (from 1970):

Major-General B. Ian S. Gourlay: October 1970-September 1971 Major-General Robert B. Loudoun: September 1971-February 1975 Major-General David C. Alexander: February 1975-February 1977 Major-General Peter L. Spurgeon: February 1977-February 1980 Major-General John F. Mottram: February 1980-February 1983 Major-General Julian H.A. Thompson: February 1983-July 1986 Major-General Henry Y. La T. Beverley: July 1986-June 1988 Major-General Robert J. Ross: June 1988-March 1990

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Commander, 3 rd Commando Brigade :

Brigadier John H. G. Wills: October 1946-1948 Brigadier Campbell R. Hardy: 1948-1951 Brigadier C. Farndale Phillips: 1951-1952 Brigadier James L. Moulton: 1952-1954 Brigadier Ian H. Riches: 1954-July 1955 Brigadier Reginald W. Madoc: July 1955-August 1957 Brigadier Robert D. Houghton: August 1957-July 1959 Brigadier Peter W.C. Hellings: July 1959-November 1960 Brigadier Norman H. Tailyour: November 1960-January 1962 Brigadier Francis C. Barton: January 1962-January 1964 Brigadier Leslie G. Marsh: January 1964-May 1965 Brigadier Anthony P. Willasey-Wilsey: May 1965-October 1966 Brigadier B. Ian S. Gourlay: October 1966-August 1968 Brigadier Peter J.F. Whiteley: August 1968-July 1970 Brigadier Patrick J. Ovens: July 1970-December 1972 Brigadier Roderick J. Ephraums: December 1972-January 1975 Brigadier John C.C. Richards: January 1975-January 1977 Brigadier J. Jeremy Moore: January 1977-April 1979 Brigadier Michael C.L. Wilkins: April 1979-January 1981 Brigadier Julian H.A. Thompson: January 1981-January 1983 Brigadier J. Martin C. Garrod: January 1983-July 1984 Brigadier Henry Y. La T. Beverley: July 1984-June 1986 Brigadier Robert J. Ross: June 1986-May 1988 Brigadier Andrew F. Whitehead: May 1988-April 1990 Brigadier Andrew M. Keeling: April 1990-1992 Brigadier David A.S. Pennefather: 1992-1994 Brigadier Jonathan J. Thomson: 1994-May 1995 Brigadier Anthony A. Milton: May 1995-1997 Brigadier Robert H.G. Fulton: 1997-1998 Brigadier David Wilson: 1998-November 1999 Brigadier Robert A. Fry: November 1999-March 2001 Brigadier Roger G.T. Lane: March 2001-July 2002 Brigadier James B. Dutton: July 2002-May 2004 Brigadier John G. Rose: May 2004-January 2006 Brigadier Jeremy H. Thomas: January 2006-June 2007 Brigadier David A. Capewell: June 2007-April 2008 Brigadier Francis R.H. Howes: April-September 2008 Brigadier Gordon K. Messenger: September 2008-December 2009 288

Brigadier Edward G.M. Davis: January 2010-December 2011 Brigadier Martin L. Smith: December 2011-June 2013 Brigadier Stuart M. Birrell: June 2013-July 2014 Brigadier Charles R. Stickland: July 2014-September 2015 Brigadier James A.J. Morris: October 2015-2017 Brigadier Gwyn S.G. Jenkins: 2017-December 2018 Brigadier Matthew J.A. Jackson: December 2018-September 2020 Brigadier Richard J. Cantrill: September 2020-

Deputy Commandant-General (Director of the Royal Marines until 20 ):

Brigadier Mark J.D. Noble: 2007-June 2009 Brigadier Paul R. Denning: June 2009-June 2012 Brigadier M. William Dunham: June 2012-November 2014 Brigadier Richard A.W. Spencer: November 2014-September 2017 Brigadier Haydn J. White: September 2017-

Commandant, Commando Training Centre (from 1972):

Colonel Henry Y. La R. Beverley: September 1980-January 1983 Colonel Andrew B. Harfield: January 1983-March 1985 Colonel Michael J. Reece: March 1985-October 1986 Colonel Ian M.H. Moore: October 1986-December 1988 Colonel R. Alan Hooper: December 1988-1990 Colonel Michael A. Taffinder: 1990-1993 Colonel Gervas J. O’N. Wells-Cole: 1993-May 1995 Brigadier Roger E. Dillon: May 1995-1996 Brigadier David V. Nicholls: 1996-1998 Brigadier Andrew R. Pillar: 1998-May 2002 Brigadier Nicholas E. Pounds: May 2002-April 2004 Brigadier Garry S. Robison: April 2004-June 2006 Brigadier Andrew Salmon: December 2006-April 2008 Brigadier M. William Dunham: April 2008-May 2010 Brigadier Gerald M. Salzano: May 2010-May 2012 Brigadier Timothy J. Bevis: May-October 2012 Colonel David L. Kassapian: October 2012-Dececember 2014 Colonel Kevin Oliver: December 2014-January 2017 Colonel Michael J. Tanner: January 2017-July 2019 Colonel Simon Chapman: July 2019- 289

30 Commando Information Exploitation Group (from April 2010; U.K. Landing Force Command Support Group until April 2010):

Lieutenant-Colonel Martin L. Smith: 200 - Lieutenant-Colonel Robert A. Magowan: November 2006-2008 **

Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Stovin-Bradford: April 2010-September 2012 + Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher S. Middleton: September 2012-August 2014 * Lieutenant-Colonel Paul P. Lynch: August 2014-May 2016 + Lieutenant-Colonel Niki R.D. Cavill: May 2016-July 2018 + Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Alston: July 2018-September 2020

40 Commando:

Lieutenant-Colonel John F. Parsons: 1963-1964 + Lieutenant-Colonel John A. Taplin: 1964-1966 Lieutenant-Colonel E. G. Derek Pounds: 1966-1967 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Robert B. Loudoun: 1967-1969 ** Lieutenant-Colonel David C. Alexander: 1969-October 1970 ** Lieutenant-Colonel David L. Bailey: October 1970-March 1972 + Lieutenant-Colonel John F. Mottram: March 1972-February 1974 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Michael C.L. Wilkins: February 1974-December 1975 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Julian H.A. Thompson: December 1975-June 1978 ** Lieutenant-Colonel J. Martin C. Garrod: June 1978-November 1979 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Robert J. Ross: November 1979-September 1981** Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm P.J. Hunt: September 1981-July 1983 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy P.T. Donkin: July 1983-June 1985 * Lieutenant-Colonel R. Alan Hooper: June 1985-March 1987 + Lieutenant-Colonel John S. Chester: March 1987-1989 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian D. Wray: 1989-1991 * Lieutenant-Colonel C. Graham H. Dunlop: November 1990–December 1992 + Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony A. Milton: December 1992-1994 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Ian R. Gardiner: 1994–October 1996 * Lieutenant-Colonel James B. Dutton: October 1996–1998 ** Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Rose: 1998–March 2000 ** Lieutenant-Colonel David A. Capewell: March 2000–December 2001 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon K. Messenger: December 2001–July 2003 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Richard W. Watts: July 2003-November 2004 290

Lieutenant-Colonel David C. M. King: November 2004–June 2006 * Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart M. Birrell: June 2006-August 2008 * Lieutenant-Colonel Paul M. James: August 2008–December 2010 + Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew J.A. Jackson: January 2011–August 2013 * Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander N. Janzen: August 2013-May 2015 Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew P.L. Watkins: May 2015-March 2017 + Lieutenant-Colonel Paul A. Maynard: March 2017-April 2019 + Lieutenant-Colonel Simon Rogers: April 2019-

41 Commando (from 1960 until 1981):

Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick J. Ovens: 1965-1967 **

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert A. Campbell: 1971-1973 Lieutenant-Colonel Michael R. Marchant: 1973-May 1975 + Lieutenant-Colonel Keith N. Wilkins: May 1975-July 1977 + Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Seccombe: July 1977-1979 + Lieutenant-Colonel Michael J. Reece: 1979-August 1981 +

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42 Commando:

Lieutenant-Colonel B. Ian S. Gourlay: 1963-1965 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Peter J.F. Whiteley: 1965-1966 **

Lieutenant-Colonel John C.C. Richards: 1970-1972 ** Lieutenant-Colonel J. Jeremy Moore: 1972-October 1973 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Donald J. Brewster: October 1973-October 1975 + Lieutenant-Colonel T.J.M. Wilson: October 1975-April 1978 + Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Y. La R. Beverley: April 1978-June 1980 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Colin H.C. Howgill: June 1980-December 1981 * Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas F. Vaux: December 1981-May 1983 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Paul T. Stevenson: May 1983-December 1984 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert C. Van Der Horst: December 1984-October 1986 * Lieutenant-Colonel Robert S. Tailyour: October 1984-June 1988 * Lieutenant-Colonel David A.S. Pennefather: June 1988-July 1990 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas M. Robinson: July 1990–July 1992 Lieutenant-Colonel Robert H.G. Fulton: July 1992–May 1994 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew R. Pillar: May 1994-May 1996 * Lieutenant-Colonel Roger G.T. Lane: May 1996-May 1998 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Robert M. Bowkett: May 1998-December 1999 * Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Salmon: December 1999–April 2001 ** Lieutenant-Colonel David A. Hook: April 2001-November 2002 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Francis R.H. Howes: November 2002-July 2004 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald M. Salzano: July 2004-March 2006 * Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew J. Holmes: April 2006-January 2008 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R Stickland: January 2008-October 2009 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen A. Murchison: October 2009-January 2012 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Sutherland: January 2012-January 2014 + Lieutenant-Colonel Richard J. Cantrill: January 2014-January 2016 * Lieutenant-Colonel P. Mark Totten: January 2016-December 2017 + Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin E. Halstead: December 2017-September 2019 Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas C.J. Pennefather: September 2019-

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43 Commando (from September 1961 until November 1968 /43 Commando (from 2012 ) Fleet Protection Group (from March 2001 ):

Lieutenant-Colonel A. Patrick Willasey-Wilsey: September 1961-1963 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick R. Kay: 1963-1965 **

Lieutenant-Colonel E.G. Derek Pounds: 1967-November 1968 **

Colonel Mark J.D. Noble: March 2001-2002 * Colonel M.William Dunham: 2002-July 2003 * Colonel Ian P. Huntley: July 2003-June 2005 * Colonel Paul R. Denning: June 2005-June 2007 * Colonel Richard A.W. Spencer: June 2007-July 2009 * Colonel Mark N. Gray: July 2009-2011 Colonel Alan Litster: 2011-August 2013 Colonel Matthew F. Pierson: August 2013-July 2015 * Colonel Graeme W. Fraser: July 2015-July 2017 Colonel Anthony L. de Reya: July 2017-2019 Colonel Andrew R. Muddiman: 2019-

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45 Commando:

Lieutenant-Colonel Terence M.P. Stevens: July 1963-November 1964 + Lieutenant-Colonel Robin J. McGarel-Groves: November 1964-1966 * Lieutenant-Colonel Francis C.E. Bye: 1966-1967 + Lieutenant-Colonel John I.H. Owen: 1967-1968 ** Lieutenant-Colonel John C.C. Richards: 1968-1969 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Roderick J. Ephraums: 1969-1971 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Steuart R. Pringle, Bt.: 1971-May 1974 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie E. Hudson: May 1974-September 1976 + Lieutenant-Colonel John St.J. Grey: September 1976-1978 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Roger H.B. Learoyd: 1978-April 1981 + Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew F. Whitehead: April 1981-April 1983 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Ian M.H. Moore: April 1983-May 1985 + Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew M. Keeling: May 1985-May 1987 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Simon J. Pack: May 1987-April 1989 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan J. Thomson: April 1989-1991 * Lieutenant-Colonel David V. Nicholls: 1991-1993 * Lieutenant-Colonel David Wilson: 1993-December 1995 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Robert A. Fry: December 1995-1997 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremy H. Thomas: 1997–July 1999 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Garry S. Robison: July 1999–2001 ** Lieutenant-Colonel S. Timothy Chicken: 2001–June 2002 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy J. Bevis: June 2002–June 2004 ** Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas P. Lindley: June 2004–April 2006 + Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan A. Dewar: April 2006–December 2007 + Lieutenant-Colonel James A. J. Morris: December 2007–September 2009** Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver A. Lee: September 2009-January 2012 + Lieutenant-Colonel Michael J. Tanner: January 2012-December 2013 * Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel J. Cheeseman: December 2013- July 2015 + Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony R. Turner: July 2015-September 2017 Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan G. Forbes: September 2017-July 2019 + Lieutenant-Colonel Innes Catton: July 2019-

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47 Commando (Raiding Group) (from November 2019; 1 Assault Group from October 2001):

Colonel Stephen T. Hartnell: December 2003-December 2007 Colonel George R. Foster: December 2007-December 2009 Colonel Rory S. Copinger-Symes: December 2009-December 2011 * Colonel Garth S.C. Manger: December 2011-September 2014 Colonel Graeme A. Armour: September 2014-August 2016 Colonel Simon J. Scott: August 2016-November 2018 * Colonel Christopher E. Haw: November 2018-

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