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• Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Great War
  ...pies of A<small>LL</small> the available service records for each of these officers, and is currently working to try and copy all their passing certificates fo
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• Royal Navy Non-Executive Flag Officers of the Great War
  ...a list of officers of the [[Royal Navy]] who held rank ''equivalent to'' [[Flag Rank]].
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• Royal Navy Flag Officers, 1889-1919
  ...of {{RearRN}}, and lists every officer who served on the Active List as a flag officer from January, 1889 to December, 1919. ! colspan="11" align=center | Flag Officers of the Royal Navy, 1889 &ndash; 1919
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• Royal Navy
  ...he Navy in Cabinet and in Parliament. He was advised by a number of naval officers on the Board with variously defined briefs. The First Lord's chief adviser ...e ports came under the authority of a Commander-in-Chief, usually a senior flag officer. The second-in-command of the Port was the Admiral Superintendent
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• Order in Council of 8 December, 1903
  ...r, 1903''' was a piece of British legislation regulating the retirement of officers of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...of Your Majesty's Navy, with particular reference to the ages at which the Officers come upon the several lists.
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• Order in Council of 3 March, 1900
  ...March, 1900''' was a piece of legislation affecting the retirement of Flag Officers of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...hould be reduced from Ten to Seven Years, was made applicable only to Flag Officers coming on the List after that date:
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• Edward Francis Bruen
  ...he Bath (C.B.) on 3 June.{{GazSup|30723|6527|3 June, 1918}} He struck his flag at 2CS on 1 February, 1919.<ref name=f418/> ...his flag to [[H.M.S. St. Vincent (1908)|''St. Vincent'']], and struck his flag on 23 April.<ref>ADM 196/42. f. 418.</ref>
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• Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon
  ...in command of the [[Dover Patrol (Royal Navy)|Dover Patrol]], hoisting his flag in the {{UK-Arrogant|f=t}}.{{SMNLNov15|p. 4}} ...e he had gone afloat. He had the most exacting and arduous command of and Flag Officer in the War[,] and was very badly treated at the end of it. Keyes i
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• East Indies Station
  ...M 196/42}}. p. 223.</ref>|ass=25 january, 1916<ref>Predecessor struck his flag that day. Peirse Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1026.</ref>|end= ==Principal Naval Transport Officers==
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• H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)
  ...9.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain from Vice-Admiral de Robeck hoisting his flag}} ...as to live in. From it one had to walk half the length of the ship to the officers' bathroom. My second was forward, all mixed up with the chain cables and a
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• H.M.S. Centurion (1911)
  ...hone using combinations of numbers. A substantially reduced complement of officers was carried although two hundred ratings were required to oversee the ship. ...mes Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603284}} f. 32.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral [[Victor Albert Stanley|Stanley]
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• H.M.S. Orion (1910)
  ...1911.<ref name=thetimes1911/> A few weeks later on 12 December, eighteen officers and men were injured when an explosion occurred onboard while ''Orion'' was ...rowed in boats that proved victorious in the Officers' Cutter Race and the Officers' Veterans Skiff Race. The ship also won the 2BS Sailing Regatta held on 23
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• H.M.S. Hercules (1910)
  In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £10. Interested parti ...ref>Everett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 23.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain|end=5 December, 1911<ref>Everett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.
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• U.S.S. Kearsarge (1898)
  ...1909, having completed a world cruise of overwhelming success, showing the flag and spreading good will. This dramatic gesture impressed the world with the
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• H.M.S. Barham (1914)
  ...ref>Campbell. p. 42.</ref> Rear-Admiral [[Hugh Evan-Thomas]] hoisted his flag in her on 1 October.<ref>Evan-Thomas Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} ...er bell was one of several ships' bells the Royal Navy offered for sale to officers and others interested. It attracted a price of £1-£5, and men were to ap
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• H.M.S. Malaya (1915)
  ...bells were made for the Captain, the Wardroom, the Gunroom and the Warrant Officers' Mess. Admiral Jellicoe rang the bell into service by sounding off eight b ...ef>Hill Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/54/121.|}} f. 121.</ref>|note=as as Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer, temporary, from 12 December, 1933}}
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• H.M.S. Ramillies (1916)
  ...er bell was one of several ships' bells the Royal Navy offered for sale to officers and others interested. It attracted a price of £1-£5, and men were to ap ...pt=23 September, 1941|end=4 August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4062}}|note=and as Flag Captain and C.S.O. to R.A.C., {{UK-BS|3}}}}
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• William Blake Fisher
  ==Flag Rank== ...orth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe|Sir John R. Jellicoe]]. He hoisted his flag in the [[H.M.S. Trafalgar (1887)|''Trafalgar'']] at Chatham, and transferre
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• Jellicoe:The War at Sea, 1914-1916
  At 11 a.m. on 13 August Jellicoe met with the flag officers present at Scapa (from the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Battle Squadrons ...hear how you propose to deal with the fleet problem on which you and your officers have been engaged. ''Rest of quote is in J.P.I. p. 171.''<ref>Letter of 4
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• H.M.S. Invincible (1907)
  ...with Captain [[Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish|Tufton P. H. Beamish]] as his Flag Captain. On 11 November ''Invincible'' sailed in company with ''Inflexible ...ral [[Horace Lambert Alexander Hood|Hood]] was killed along with sixty-one officers, nine hundred and sixty-five men and five civilians. Six men survived, amo
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• Royal Naval War College
  ...s of the [[Royal Navy]] established in 1900. It was commanded by a junior flag officer or senior Captain of distinction, based first at [[Royal Naval Coll ...the Council) to consider the question of the Course of Study of the Senior Officers at the Royal Naval College, and to offer such suggestions as may be deemed
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• H.M.S. Cæsar (1896)
  ...ohn Pakenham Pipon|John P. Pipon]], C.B., C.M.G., with a complement of 757 officers and men for service on the [[Mediterranean Station]].<ref>"Naval & Military ...f>Stoddart Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 589.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
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• H.M.S. Prince George (1895)
  [[File:H.M.S. Prince George - 1898.jpg|thumb|400px|right|The three senior officers in ''Prince George'', 1898. From left to right: Commander [[Montague Edwar ...ref>Savill Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 104.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
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• H.M.S. Glory (1899)
  ...t'' and became port depot ship for Rosyth, bearing a great many additional officers for duties ranging from boom defence to various "special service".{{NLJan21 ...ef>Stopford Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 323.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
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• H.M.S. Bulwark (1899)
  ...er Commander [[Edward Montgomery Phillpotts|Edward M. Phillpotts]], acting Flag Captain to Admiral [[Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Bere ...regretfully comes to the conclusion that blame is attributable to the dead Officers responsible for the Gunnery Department of the ship for allowing cordite cha
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• H.M.S. Dominion (1903)
  ...t, 1914, the Vice-Admiral Commanding the Third Battle Squadron hoisted his flag in ''Dominion'' while ''King Edward VII'' was away replacing cracked 12-inc In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £10. Interested parti
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• H.M.S. New Zealand (1911)
  ...Dominica on 3 November, the same day that the {{UK-1Suffolk}}, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral [[Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock|Sir Christophe ...ervice Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/15.|D7603522}} f. 15.</ref>|note=followed flag upon transfer from {{UK-Hercules}}}}
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• Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage
  ==Flag Rank== ...mand in the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]], flying his flag in H.M.S. ''Agincourt''. He assumed command on 5 July.{{NLOct85|p. 188}}
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• U.S.S. Maine (1889)
  ...ate 1897. Then the ship prepared for a voyage to Havana, Cuba, to show the flag and to protect American citizens in event of violence in the Spanish strugg ...rward part of the ship. Out of 350 officers and men on board that night (4 officers were ashore), 252 were dead or missing. Eight more were to die in Havana ho
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• Armada de la República Argentina
  [[:Category:Argentinian Navy Flag Officers]]
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• Churchill Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy
  ...fficers. The War Staff is to be the means of preparing and training those officers who arrive, or are likely to arrive, by the excellence of their sea service ...henever convenient consult the Directors of the various Divisions or other officers if necessary. This direction is essential to prevent that group of evils wh
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• Robert Swinburne Lowry
  ...up before the Commander, who forwarded the case to be investigated by the Flag Captain.<br><br>The ordinary seaman appeared at "Captain's Defaulters" unde ==Flag Rank==
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• Lewis Bayly
  ==Flag Rank== ...e'' and ''Diamond'', out of a complement of 780 men ''Formidable'' lost 35 officers and 512 men dead, including Captain [[Arthur Noel Loxley|Arthur N. Loxley]]
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• David Richard Beatty, First Earl Beatty
  ...r was later to claim, and Andrew Gordon to repeat, that the average age of officers promoted Captain at the time was forty-two.<ref>Chalmers. p. xxi. Gordon. ...nd Wemyss had supposedly "found the ship plunged in the deepest gloom, the officers discontented, the men unwilling."<ref>Wester Wemyss. ''Life and Letters''.
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  ...N. (25 January, 1841 &ndash; 10 July, 1920) was one of the most celebrated officers in the history of the [[Royal Navy]]. He was actively involved in the serv ...it and on account of old Shadwell's report of me, he should take me as his Flag Mate, and that he would take care to look out for me always.<ref>Quoted in
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• Walter Talbot Kerr
  Kerr was one of three officers later to achieve high rank in the Navy to be awarded the India 1857-1858 ca ...1875. Seymour, by now Vice-Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, hauled down his flag on 9 November, 1877, and was superseded by Rear-Admiral [[John Hay|Lord Joh
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• Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
  ...mmand) the battleship [[H.M.S. Triumph (1870)|''Triumph'']] for service as flag ship on the [[Pacific Station (Royal Navy)|Pacific Station]]. The Commande ...thorough knowledge of his profession. Has carried out difficult duties of Flag Captain to my satisfaction."<ref>Bridgeman Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/3
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• Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss
  ...Anson'']] on 17 September, 1889,<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/42}}. f. 223.</ref> as Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral [[Richard Edward Tracey|Richard E. Tracey]], Sec ...ef> Wemyss was lent to [[H.M.S. Alexandra (1875)|H.M.S. ''Alexandra'']] as Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Seymour on 17 July for the annual manœuvres. O
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• Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  ...appointment has been made with a view to Captain Jackson imparting to the Officers of the 'Vernon' the results of the experience gained by him during several ...officer. It is to be regretted that seniority alone can place him on the Flag List.<ref>ADM 196/38. f. 682.</ref></blockquote>
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• Louis Alexander Mountbatten, First Marquess of Milford Haven
  ...of toast, butter and jam and finish on fruit. His meal would have fed an Officers['] mess."<ref>Oliver. '''II'''. f. 81.</ref>
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• First Lord of the Admiralty
  | 4.&mdash;Promotions and Removals from the Service of Naval and Marine Officers. | 6.&mdash;Royal Yachts, including Appointment of all Officers.
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• H.M.S. Renown (1895)
  ...John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher|Sir John A. Fisher]] hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief on the [[North America and West Indies Station]].<ref
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• Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
  ...ternoon I went over to the Admiralty; he presented his Board and principal officers and departmental heads to me, and then took his leave. I knew he felt grea Captain [[Richard Webb]], Flag Captain at the [[Royal Naval War College]], dined on board the ''Enchantres
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• H.M.S. Suffolk (1903)
  ...(s) were among a number of ships' bells the Royal Navy offered for sale to officers and others interested. It commanded a price of between £3-£10 plus packi ...>Francklin Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 446.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
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• Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
  ...the most senior officers of the rank of {{AdmRN}} as vacancies occurred. Officers of outstanding merit could be specially promoted Admiral of the Fleet super ...Provided that the most senior officer on the Admirals' list had flown his flag at sea for two years or served as a Commander-in-Chief, he was guaranteed e
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• Stuart Nicholson
  ...913. His flag was hoisted in the {{UK-Russell}}, of the {{UK-BS|6}}.<ref>"Flag Changes at Sheerness" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Times''. ...p. 291.</ref> which is supported by an Admiralty ledger detailing senior officers of fleets and squadrons.{{UKCeased|f. 7}} In the September and October Pin
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• Konteradmiral
  ...y|Austro-Hungarian]] navies. Traditionally, it is the lowest rank of flag officers.
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• Morgan Singer
  ...916, Captain [[Frederic Charles Dreyer|Frederic C. Dreyer]] was one of the officers brought down to the Admiralty, reputedly as D.N.O. Captain [[Philip Wylie In March he was appointed Rear-Admiral in the {{UK-CS|10}} and hoisted his flag in the {{UK-Orvieto|f=tp}} on 2 April, 1917.{{SMNLSep17|p. 7}}
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• Archibald Peile Stoddart
  On 6 June, 1904 he became Captain of the battleship {{UK-1RoyalOak}} as Flag Captain to Charles Barlow, now Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command of the [[Home ...s to the letter of the law, very reliable, good physique. Will make a good flag officer."
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• Charles Edward Madden, First Baronet
  ...Excellent executive officer & torpedo specialist. Would make an excellent Flag Captain." On 13 February, 1902, he was appointed to [[H.M.S. Renown (1895) ...s physical qualities are all that could be desired, & he has been the best Flag Capt. & Ch. of Staff an Admiral could possibly wish for. Strongly recom<su
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• Edward Buxton Kiddle
  ...filthy, the Captain was mad, there was no poop or forecastle. The junior officers [sic] quarters were in what was called the Pandemonium.<ref>Kiddle. f. 35. ...lazy to bother about his own mess. He worried about nothing and left the officers to run the ship as they liked. Frequently he would not leave his bed to ta
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• Alexander Edward Bethell
  ==Home Fleet and Flag Rank== ...War Staff in London. We do not want unnecessarily to widen the circle of officers who are privy to Admiralty secrets. Sir A. Bethell knows everything and ca
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• Lionel Halsey
  ...ich date he was appointed in command of {{UK-Powerful}}, as [[Flag Captain|Flag Captain]] to [[Wilmot Hawkesworth Fawkes|Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes]], Commander- ...was appointed [[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth]]. Halsey went with him as Flag Captain, being appointed to ''Impregnable'' as such on 28 April, 1908.<ref>
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