SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 15 SEPTEMBER, 1916. 9081 .[Midshipman Charles Gordon Denning to be Captain Charles Edward Le Mesurier, R.N. transferred to the Royal Navy as Acting Sub- (Commodore, 2nd Class). Lieutenant. Captain Henry Montagu Doughty, R.N. All the above to date 30th June, 1916. Captain Charles Blois Miller, R.N. Captain Eustace La T'robe Leatham, R.N. The following Officers have been noted for Captain Wilmot Stuart Nicholson, R.N. • early promotion : — Captain John Douglas Edwards, R.N. .Lieutenant Robert Beaufin Irving. Captain Charles Duncan Johnson, M.V.O., Lieutenant Reginald Slaughter Triggs. D.S.O., R.N. Lieutenant Bertram Elliott. Captain Frederic Aubrey Whitehead, R.N. .Lieutenant Reginald John Finlow. Captain John Ewen Cameron, M.V.O., R.N. .Lieutenant Charles Leonard Dettmar. Captain Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughep Warrant Engineer Stanley Perigrine Oxnard. D'Aeth, R.N. Warrant Engineer John Cameron Allen. Captain Lionel George Preston, C.B., R.N. The services of the following Officer have Captain.Oliver Elles Leggett, R.N. been specially noted: — Captain George Bennett Weston Young, R.N. .Assistant Paymaster Thomas Emrys Daniel. Captain Anselan John Buchanan Stirling, R.N. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Croix de Chevalier. Noted for early promotion: — Captain Humphrey Wykeham Bowring, .Surgeon William James Aitken Quine, M.B. D.S.O., R.N. Commander Tristan Dannreuther, R.N. The services of the following Officers have Commander Otto Herman Hawke-Genn, R.N. been specially noted: — Commander Graham Richard Leicester Lieutenant Leonard Bampfylde Cogan. Edwards, R.N. Temporary Lieutenant Alexander Percy Commander Harold Victor Dundas, R.N. McMullen. Commander the Hon. Arthur Stopford, R.N. Temporary Lieutenant William Cleveland Commander Thomas Leigh Goldie, R.N. Stevens. Commander Edward Coverley Kennedy, R.N. Commander Theodore Evelyn Johnstone Bigg, Admiralty, 15th September, 1916. R.N. Commander Charles Albert Fremantle, R.N. The President of the French Republic has Commander Harry Lumsden Boyle, R.N. bestowed the decoration of the Legion of Commander Norman Hugh Rankin, R.N. Honour, with the approval of His Majesty the Commander Wilfrid Allan Egerton, R.N. .King, on the undermentioned Officers, in Commander Arthur Douglas Barrow, R.N. recognition of their services during the war : — Commander Niel O'Niell, R.N. Grand Croix. Commander Ernest Leslie Cardale, R.N, .Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, Commander Cecil Burnaby Prickett, R.N. G.C.B., G.C.V.O. Lieutenant-Commander Egerton Wootto» Isaacson, R.N. Grand Officier. Lieutenant-Commander Basil Richard Brooke, Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. R.N. Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, K.C.B., Lieutenant-Commander Cecil Henry Hulton K.C.V.O., D.S.O. Sams, R.N. "Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Lieutenant-Commander Baldwin Charles Bacon, K.C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O. Walker, R.N. Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. Erskine Croix de Gommandeur. Arthur Nicolson, R.N. Vice-Admiral .Sir Thomas Henry Martyn Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Nepean Jerram, K.C.B. Biggs, R.N. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Lieutenant-Commander Patrick Macnamara, Sturdee, Bt., K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G. R.N. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Schomberg K.C.B., C.V.O. Arbuthnot, R.N. Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas, C.B., Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Fitzherbert, M.V.O. R.N. Rear-Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Douglas Wales De Chair, K.C.B., M.V.O. Smith, R.N. Captain Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, C.B., Lieutenant-Commander Ronald Wolseley Old- D.S.O. (Commodore, 1st"Class). ham, R.N. Lieutenant Guy Victor Kenyon, R.N. Croix d'Officier. Lieutenant James Victor Vincent Magrane, Captain the Hon. Victor Albert Stanley, R.N. M.V.O., R.N. Lieutenant Robert Holmes De'ath, R.N. Captain Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G., A.d.C., Lieutenant Robert Mends, R.N. R.N. (Commodore, 1st Class). Lieutenant Lancelot Tomkinson, R.N. (Flight ' Captain James Andrew Ferg-usson, A.d.C., Commander). R.N. Lieutenant Russell Grenfell, "R.N. Captain John Nicholas, R.N. Lieutenant Athelstan Paul -Bush, R.N. Captain John Frederick Ernest Green, R.N. Lieutenant Charles Hector Congdon, R.M. •Captain Richard Morden Harbord, R.N. Engineer - Commander George Frederick Captain Vivian Henry'Gerald Bernard, R.N. Thompson, R.N. Captain Edward Buxton Kiddle, R.N. Engineer Commander Francis John Sutton, Captain Rudolf Walter Bentinck, R.N. R.N. Captain the Hon. Algernon Douglas Edward Engineer Commander John Benjamin Hewitt, Harry Boyle, C.B., M.V.O., R.N. R.N..