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Admirals of the Fleet

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
Baron Cunningham of Hyndhope
First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff Knight of the Thistle, GCB, DSO** 21 January 1943 [1]
Sir John Cronyn Tovey
Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp
GCB, KBE, DSO, ADC 22 October 1943 [2]
Sir James Fownes Somerville
Head of the British Admiralty Delegation to Washington GCB, KBE, DSO 8 May 1945

Admirals

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
Sir Dudley Burton Napier North Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth KCVO, CB, CSI, CMG 8 May 1940 [3]
Sir Max Kennedy Horton
Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches KCB, DSO**, SGM 3 January 1941
Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis
Deputy First Sea Lord KCB 15 February 1942
Sir Geoffrey Layton
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth KCB, KCMG, DSO 15 September 1942
Sir Guy Charles Cecil Royle
First Naval Member, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board KCB, CMG October 1942
Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet KCB, MVO 4 August 1943
Sir Ralph Leatham
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth KCB 9 December 1943
Sir William Jock Whitworth Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth KCB, DSO 31 December 1943
Sir Bruce Austin Fraser
Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet GCB, KBE 7 February 1944
Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell
Commander-in-Chief, Dover KCB, CVO 30 June 1944
Sir Henry Ruthven Moore
Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet KCB, CVO, DSO
Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker
Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy KCB, CBE 8 May 1945

Acting

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
Sir Arthur John Power
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station KCB, CVO December 1944
Sir Harold Martin Burrough
British Naval Commander-in-Chief, Germany KCB, KBE, DSO*, DSM 19 January 1945

Vice-admirals

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
The Hon. Edmund Rupert Drummond
Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth CB, MVO 1 January 1940
Sir Arthur Ninian Dowding Admiral-Superintendent, Devonport KBE, CB 6 May 1940
Sir Edward Neville Syfret
Vice Chief of the Naval Staff KCB 14 July 1942
John Henry Godfrey
Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy CB 15 September 1942
John Gregory Crace
Admiral-Superintendent, Chatham CB 29 October 1942
John Guy Protheroe Vivian Admiral Commanding, Reserves CB 29 October 1942
Marshal Llewelyn Clarke Admiral-Superintendent, Portsmouth CB, DSC 3 April 1943
Sir Algernon Usborne Willis Second Sea Lord KCB, DSO 12 April 1943
Arthur Malcolm Peters Flag Officer, West Africa CB 22 October 1943
Sir Henry Bernard Hughes Rawlings
Second-in-Command, Pacific Fleet
Commander, 1st Battle Squadron
KCB, OBE 7 November 1943
Charles Edward Barrington Simeo Deputy Controller of the Navy CB 7 November 1943
Sir Robert Lindsay Burnett
Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station CB, KBE, DSO 9 December 1943
Sir Irvine Gordon Glennie
Senior British Naval Officer, Western Atlantic KCB 31 December 1943
Arthur Francis Eric Palliser Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies and Transport CB, DSC 7 February 1944
Geoffrey John Audley Miles Flag Officer, Western Mediterranean CB 9 March 1944
Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton
Vice Admiral, Malta
Flag Officer, Central Mediterranean
KCB 15 June 1944
Rhoderick Robert McGrigor
Second-in-Command, Home Fleet CB, DSO 15 April 1945
Rhoderick Robert McGrigor
Second-in-Command, Home Fleet CB, DSO 15 April 1945

Acting

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
William George Tennant
Commander-in-Chief, Levant CB, CBE, MVO 1945

Rear-admirals

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
Albert John Robertson Captain of the Dockyard, Devonport MVO 3 January 1936
John Harold Young Commodore-Superintendent Simonstown Dockyard 6 July 1936
Charles Frederick Harris Flag Officer Commanding, Reserve Fleet CB 1 August 1939
Piers Keane Kekewich Captain of the Dockyard, Malta Dockyard CB 6 January 1940
Richard James Rodney Scott Captain of the Dockyard, Portland CB 25 June 1940
William Gordon Benn Director of Navigation, Admiralty 8 July 1941
Colin Sinclair Thomson Captain of the Dockyard, Sheerness 8 July 1941
Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley
Flag Officer, Gibraltar VC, CB, DSC 6 February 1942
Henry Clarmont Phillips Vice-Controller of the Navy CB 6 February 1942
Claud Barrington Barry
Naval Secretary DSO 12 January 1943
John Maurice Mansfield
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Trade) DSO, DSC 12 January 1943
Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan Director of Signals, Admiralty CBE, MVO, DSC 12 January 1943
Thomas Hope Troubridge
Fifth Sea Lord CB, DSO 12 January 1943
George Elvey Creasy
Flag Officer, Submarines CB, CBE, DSO, MVO 8 July 1943
Harold Richard George Kinahan Director of Personal Services, Admiralty CBE 8 July 1943
Henry Cecil Bovell Admiral-Superintendent, Rosyth CBE, DSO 8 January 1944
Richard Shelley UK Naval Attaché to France CBE 8 January 1944
Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse
Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty CB 8 January 1944
John Walter Durnford Director of Naval Training, Admiralty 7 July 1944
Edward Desmond Bewley McCarthy
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Home) DSO 7 July 1944
Robert Don Oliver Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Weapons) CBE, DSC 2 January 1945
Herbert Annesley Packer Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Fleet CBE 2 January 1945
Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty CBE, DSC ?, Before July 1945

Acting

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
Lachlan Donald Mackintosh Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air) DSO, DSC 16 November 1944
Edward Gerald Hyslop Bellars Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Foreign) CB 1945

Commodores

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1st Class

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
William Rudolph Slayter Chief of Staff, Home Fleet DSO, DSC 8 November 1943?
Edward Malcolm Evans-Lombe Chief of Staff, Pacific Fleet August 1944?

2nd Class

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Name Photo Appointment Decorations Date of promotion Ref
Ivan Walter Whitehorn Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf 23 October 1942
Ian Agnew Patterson Macintyre Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches CBE, DSO 5 November 1943?
Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport CBE 31 August 1944
Marcel Harcourt Attwood Kelsey Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham DSC 18 January 1945
Richard Victor Symonds-Tayler Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth DSC 1 February 1945
William York La Roche Beverley Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth ?
Humphrey Benson Jacomb Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth CBE ?
Robert Gordon Hood Linzee Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, The Nore CB, CBE ?

References

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  1. ^ Paul Bevand (15 May 2008). "Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham". HMS Hood Association. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2008.
  2. ^ "No. 36255". The London Gazette. 19 November 1943. p. 5088.
  3. ^ "No. 34849". The London Gazette. 14 May 1940. p. 2892.