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Revision as of 14:44, 17 April 2015
The Naval Intelligence Division (from 1912 to 1918 the Intelligence Division) was the intelligence-gathering body of the Royal Navy's Admiralty War Staff and successor Naval Staff.
Contents
History
As constituted on 8 January, 1912, the Intelligence Division was composed of a Director, an Assistant Director, fourteen Naval and Marine officers, and thirteen civilian staff.[1] The first Director, Captain Thomas Jackson, had been Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence in the Naval Intelligence Department and Head of Foreign Division. The Assistant Director, Captain Maurice S. FitzMaurice, had been additional Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence in the N.I.D.
Great War
Commander Gilbert Stephenson, an officer in the Intelligence Division, later commented:
The system in the War Room at the start was very inadequate. None of the Commanders on duty there was able to take action without the approval of a Post-Captain. This was quite ridiculous, and I said so! My suggestion for more delegation of authority was not approved.
But when I worked as a Duty Commander - 24 hours on, 48 hours off - there was no question of referring everything to senior officers. The messages that came in had to be acted upon - and of course that suited me much better.[2]
According to Dr. Nicholas Black, 206 Royal Navy officers served in the division during the war.[3]
At some point between 18 March, 1918,[4] and 18 June, 1918, the division was renamed the Naval Intelligence Division and the director became the Director of Naval Intelligence once more.[5]
Directors
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Thomas Jackson, 9 January, 1912[6] – 1 November, 1913[7]
- Rear-Admiral Henry F. Oliver, 1 November, 1913[8] – 13 October, 1914[9]
- Rear-Admiral Sir W. Reginald Hall, 14 October, 1914[10][11] – 15 January, 1919[12]
- Rear-Admiral Hugh F. P. Sinclair, 18 January, 1919[13] – 15 August, 1921[14]
- Rear-Admiral Maurice S. FitzMaurice, 15 August, 1921[15]
- Rear-Admiral Alan G. Hotham, 15 August, 1924[16]
- Rear-Admiral William W. Fisher, 17 August, 1926[17] – 1 January, 1927[18] (temporary)
- Rear-Admiral Barry E. Domvile, 15 August, 1927[19]
Deputy Directors
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Edward O. Cochrane, 1 April, 1922[20] – 14 September, 1923[21]
Assistant Directors
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Maurice S. FitzMaurice, 8 January, 1912[22] – 14 February, 1914[23]
- Captain Edward H. F. Heaton-Ellis, 14 February, 1914[24] – 13 May, 1914[25]
- Captain Edward O. Cochrane, 15 July, 1921[26] – 1 April, 1922[27]
Tristan Dannreuther held this position from 7 April, 1919,[28] but we've left him off the list as, in March 1919, five men were jointly holding the position.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Admiralty War Staff. Distribution of Work.—May 1912." pp. 3-5. The National Archives. ADM 1/8272.
- ↑ Baker. The Terror of Tobermory. p. 27.
- ↑ Black. The British Naval Staff. p. 21.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1918). p. 1814.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 1814.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
- ↑ Oliver Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 319.
- ↑ Oliver Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 319.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
- ↑ Hall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 40/78.
- ↑ Hall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 40/78.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 124.
- ↑ Sinclair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 368.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 124.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 124.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 124.
- ↑ Fisher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 231.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 124.
- ↑ Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
- ↑ Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
- ↑ FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
- ↑ FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
- ↑ Heaton-Ellis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 20/38.
- ↑ Heaton-Ellis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 20/38.
- ↑ Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
- ↑ Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 1815.
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.
