Ernest Alfred Simons
From The Dreadnought Project
Admiral Ernest Alfred Simons, Royal Navy (3 September, 1856 – 30 August, 1928) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on 27 August, 1911, vice Charles Grey Robinson. Simons was promoted to the rank of Admiral on 24 October, 1914 and retired on 24 October, 1915. He died in London on 30 August, 1928 a few days shy of his seventy-second birthday.
Footnotes
Bibliography
- "Admiral E. A. Simons" (Obituaries). The Times. Monday, 3 September, 1928. Issue 44988, col D, pg. 14.
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/39.
- The National Archives. ADM 196/19.
