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{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Alexander Ludovic Duff|nick=Alexander L. Duff|appt=8 January, 1912<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 80.</ref>|end=22 October, 1914<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 368.</ref>|precBy=New Appointment|as=Director of the Mobilisation Division}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Alexander Ludovic Duff|nick=Alexander L. Duff|appt=8 January, 1912<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 80.</ref>|end=22 October, 1914<ref>Duff Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 80.</ref>|precBy=New Appointment|as=Director of the Mobilisation Division}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair|nick=Hugh F. P. Sinclair|appt=22 October, 1914<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 368.</ref>|as=Director of the Mobilisation Division}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair|nick=Hugh F. P. Sinclair|appt=22 October, 1914<ref>Sinclair Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 368.</ref>|as=Director of the Mobilisation Division}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Michael Culme-Seymour, Fourth Baronet|nick=Michael Culme-Seymour|appt=12 September, 1916<ref>Culme-Seymour Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 477.</ref>|as=Director of the Mobilisation Division}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Michael Culme-Seymour, Fourth Baronet|nick=Michael Culme-Seymour|appt=12 September, 1916<ref>Culme-Seymour Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 477.</ref>|as=Director of the Mobilisation Division}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edmond Hyde Parker|nick=E. Hyde Parker|appt=1 September, 1918<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 2.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edmond Hyde Parker|nick=E. Hyde Parker|appt=1 September, 1918<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 2.</ref>}}

Revision as of 12:42, 20 December 2014

The Mobilisation Department was the Mobilisation Division for a period during the war.

According to Dr. Nicholas Black, twenty-two Royal Navy officers served in the division during the war.[1]

On 12 February, 1918, the Division once more became a Department of the Admiralty.[2]

Directors

Assistant Directors

Footnotes

  1. Black. The British Naval Staff. p. 21.
  2. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 155.
  3. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 80.
  4. Duff Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 80.
  5. Sinclair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 368.
  6. Culme-Seymour Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 477.
  7. Parker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 2.
  8. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 368.

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 at The National Archives. ADM 234/434.