Operations Division (Royal Navy)
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History
According to Dr. Nicholas Black, seventy-five Royal Navy officers served in the division during the war.[1]
In a docket of 5 March, 1920, Captain Kelly proposed that the Home and Foreign Divisions be merged into two Sections of one Division under one Director. Captain Coode assented on 9 March, along with the Director of Training and Staff Duties, Captain Walter M. Ellerton, the following day. Rear-Admiral Osmond de B. Brock, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, approved the proposal on 15 March and proposed that the change take place on 1 April. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, the Chief of Naval Staff, gave his approval on 17 March.[2]
Directors of Operations Division
Director of Operation Division (D.O.D.):
- Captain George A. Ballard, 8 January, 1912[3] – 1 May, 1914[4]
- Rear-Admiral Arthur C. Leveson, 1 May, 1914[5] – 16 January, 1915[6]
- Rear-Admiral Thomas Jackson, 17 January, 1915[7][8] – 11 June, 1917[9]
- Rear-Admiral George P. W. Hope, 11 June, 1917[10] – 9 January, 1918[11]
Assistant Director of Operation Division (A.D.O.D.):
- Captain Henry W. Grant, 19 May, 1915[12] – 11 June, 1917[13]
- Captain Charles P. R. Coode, 11 June, 1917[14] – 18 January, 1918[15]
Deputy Director of Operation Division (D.D.O.D.):
- Captain Henry W. Grant, 11 June, 1917[16] – 18 January, 1918[17]
D.O.D. (Home):
- Captain A. Dudley P. R. Pound, 12 January, 1918[18] – 15 July, 1919[19]
- Captain John D. Kelly, 15 July, 1919[20][21] – 1 April, 1920[22]
D.O.D. (Foreign):
- Captain Charles P. R. Coode, 18 January, 1918[23][24] – 31 March, 1920[25]
D.O.D.:
- Rear-Admiral John D. Kelly, 1 April, 1920[26][27] – 15 February, 1922[28]
- Captain Henry W. Parker, 1 February, 1922[29]
- Captain Wilfred Tomkinson, 21 November, 1923[30]
Deputy Directors
- Captain Charles D. Burke, 1 March, 1921[31] – 31 March, 1922[32]
- Captain Alister F. Beal, 2 September, 1921[33] – 12 July, 1923[34]
- Captain Geoffrey Layton, 8 August, 1927[35] – 8 August, 1929[36]
- Captain Robert R. Turner, 1 August, 1929[37] – 11 August, 1931[38]
- Captain Ernest J. Spooner, 12 December, 1932 – 27 July, 1934
- Captain Ronald W. Blacklock, 27 July, 1934 – 27 July, 1936
- Captain Irving M. Palmer, 27 July, 1936 – 16 September, 1938
Assistant Directors
- Captain George P. W. Hope, 8 January, 1912[39] – 30 April, 1913[40]
- Captain Herbert W. Richmond, 30 April, 1913[41] – 19 May, 1915[42]
- Captain Charles D. Burke, 1 April, 1922[43] – 15 November, 1922[44]
Second Assistant Directors
- Captain George P. W. Hope, 15 December, 1916[45]
Footnotes
- ↑ Black. British Naval Staff. p. 21.
- ↑ "Organisation of Operations Division." O.D. 116. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
- ↑ Ballard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 65.
- ↑ Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
- ↑ Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23/44.
- ↑ Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
- ↑ Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
- ↑ Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
- ↑ Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
- ↑ Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ "Office Acquaint. No. 71." 1 April, 1920. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 123.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 123.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Beal Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/54. f. 62.
- ↑ Beal Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/54. f. 62.
- ↑ Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
- ↑ Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
- ↑ Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
- ↑ Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 44.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23/44.
- ↑ Richmond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 205.
- ↑ Richmond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 205.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 44.
Bibliography
- Black, Nicholas (2009). The British Naval Staff in the First World War. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843834427.
- Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division (1929). The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. Its Work and Development. B.R. 1845 (late C.B. 3013). Copy No. 8 at The National Archives. ADM 234/434.
