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Engineer Admiral '''William John Anstey''' was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]].
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==Great War==
 
==Great War==
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Anstey was promoted to Engineer Admiral on 28 January, 1913.{{NLMar13|p. 3}}
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Anstey was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 1 January, 1917.<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29886/supplements/1 (Supplement) no. 29886.  p. 1.]  1 January, 1917.</ref>
 
Anstey was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 1 January, 1917.<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29886/supplements/1 (Supplement) no. 29886.  p. 1.]  1 January, 1917.</ref>
  

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Engineer Admiral William John Anstey was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Great War

Anstey was promoted to Engineer Admiral on 28 January, 1913.[1]

Anstey was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 1 January, 1917.[2]

Who was Who

ANSTEY, Eng.-Rear-Adm. William John CB 1917

Born 1860; s of late William Anstey, of HM Dockyard, Portsmouth, and Mrs. Anstey (née Knight), Sheerness; m five d ; died 13 Dec. 1936

EDUCATION Privately: HM Dockyard. Portsmouth, and RN College, Greenwich. Special Course RN College, Greenwich, 1881–84

CAREER Eng.-Comdr., 1902 antedated to 1898; Engineer Manager Devonport Dockyard, 1909; Eng.-Capt., 1911; Assist Engineer-in-Chief, 1911; GSP, 1912; Eng.-Rear-Adm., 1913; retired, 1917; officer in charge of Administration Air Craft Inspection, 1918; JP, Middlesex, 1918

RECREATION Golf

CLUB National

ADDRESS Highcliffe, 105 Station Road, Hendon, NW4 Hendon 2201

Bibliography

  • "Eng. Rear-Admiral W. J. Anstey" (Obituaries). The Times. Tuesday, 15 December, 1936. Issue 47558, col B, p. 18.

Service Record

 

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 3.
  2. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29886. p. 1. 1 January, 1917.

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