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Keyes,
Lord Roger John Brownlow;
1st Baron of Zeebrugge
and Dover, cr. 22.01.1943;
Baronet, cr. 1919
Son (with four brothers and four sisters) of Gen. Sir Charles Patton Keyes,
GCB (1823-1896), and Katherine Jessie Norman (1847-1916).
Married (10.04.1906, Holy Trinity, Chelsea, London) Eva Mary Salvin Bowlby
(13.07.1882 - 30.08.1973), Red Cross Order of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium,
daughter of Edward Salvin Bowlby, DL (1830-1902), and Elizabeth Vans-Agnew
(1854-1937), of Gilston Park, Herts, and Knoydart, Invernessshire; two sons
(eldest son Lt.Col. Geoffrey C.T. Keyes, VC, MC, killed 1941, leading
commando raid; youngest son Lt. Roger G.B. Keyes, RN), three daughters.
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04.10.1872
Tundiani Fort, India
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26.12.1945
Buckingham
[St James Cemetery, Dover]
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Lt.
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28.08.1893
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Cdr.
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09.11.1900
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Capt.
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30.06.1905
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Cdre. 2nd cl.
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31.08.1912
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R.Adm.
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10.04.1917
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A/V.Adm.
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01.01.1918-01.01.1919
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V.Adm.
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16.05.1921
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A/Adm.
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15.05.1925
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Adm.
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01.03.1926
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Adm. of the Fleet
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08.05.1930 (retd 08.05.1935)
(reinstated on Active List 06.02.1940)
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Barony
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22.01.1943
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New Year 1943
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Baronet
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1919
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GCB
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03.06.1930
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HM's birthday 1930
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KCB
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26.04.1918
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KCVO
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10.12.1918
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CB
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19.06.1911
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HM's coronation
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CMG
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01.01.1916
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naval war operations
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CVO
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30.03.1918
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MVO
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24.04.1906
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Naval Attaché, Athens
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DSO
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03.06.1916
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for services rendered
in the prosecution of the war
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MID
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14.03.1916
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Gallipoli
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LegH
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05.04.1916
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DSM
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16.09.1919
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Leo
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02.08.1921
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Leo
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23.07.1918
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Zeebrugge / Ostend 04.1918
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CdeG
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23.07.1918
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Zeebrugge / Ostend
04.1918
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Second Class of the Order of the Iron Crown
(Austria- Hungary) (24.02.1908; Naval Attaché, Vienna); Second Class of the
Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh (Turkey) (04.06.1908; Naval Attaché,
Constantinople); Commander of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus
(Italy) (22.06.1908, Naval Attaché, Rome); Third Class of the Order of the
Redeemer (Greece) (24.06.1909; Naval Attaché, Athens)
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Education: HMS Britannia
(15.07.1885-07.1887); DCL Oxford; LLD Cambridge, Aberdeen, St Andrews, and
Bristol.
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15.07.1885
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entered RN
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30.07.1887
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27.01.1890
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HMS Raleigh (cruiser)
(Cape Town)
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27.01.1890
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04.02.1891
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HMS Turquoise (corvette) (anti-slavery patrol, Witu) (medal, clasp)
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28.03.1891
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28.08.1893
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various ships of the
Channel fleet, including HMS Martin (28.03.1891), HMS Iris (27.07.1892),
HMS Immortalité (12.01.1893), HMS Victoria and Albert (01.07.1893)
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25.09.1893
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17.04.1896
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HMS Beagle (South America)
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02.06.1896
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31.12.1897
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HMS Curacoa (training
ship for new recruits)
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01.01.1898
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14.09.1898
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Opossum (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vivid]
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15.09.1898
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06.01.1899
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Hart [tender to HMS Centurion]
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07.01.1899
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14.11.1900
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Fame [tender to HMS Centurion] (China during the Boxer rising) (despatches,
promoted to Commander, medal, two clasps)
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26.02.1901
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04.1901
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signals course,
Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
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01.05.1901
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04.01.1902
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Bat (destroyer) [tender to HMS Nile] (Portsmouth) & Second-in-Command,
Destroyer Flotilla Devonport
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05.01.1902
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12.05.1902
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Falcon [tender to HMS Triumph]
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13.05.1902
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07.01.1903
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Sprightly [tender to HMS Triumph]
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08.01.1903
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07.04.1903
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Express [tender to HMS Triumph]
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08.04.1903
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01.05.1903
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Gipsy [tender to HMS Triumph]
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16.07.1903
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31.07.1903
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HMS President (additional;
for duty inside Admiralty)
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01.08.1903
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01.01.1905
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Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
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01.01.1905
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01.01.1908
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Naval Attaché at Rome
(for Rome, Vienna, Athens, and Constantinople)
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11.02.1908
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29.05.1908
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war course [HMS
President (additional)]
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01.06.1908
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10.06.1908
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gunnery course
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18.08.1908
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10.10.1910
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Venus (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
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11.10.1910
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13.11.1910
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HMS Mercury (additional)
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14.11.1910
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08.1912
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Mercury & as Inspecting Captain of Submarines [from 01.07.1911 HMS
Arrogant]
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31.08.1912
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07.02.1915
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Commodore-in-Charge of
the Submarine Service [HMS Dolphin (additional)]
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15.09.1914
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also: Naval ADC to the
King
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08.02.1915
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10.05.1916
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Chief of the Staff to
Vice-Admiral Commanding Mediterranean [HMS Inflexible, from 13.05.1815 HMS
Lord Nelson] (despatches, CMG, DSO, and Commander Legion of Honour)
[prominent in planning naval operations and army landings; pressed
unsuccessfully in Oct. 1915 for second naval attempt to force Narrows]
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21.05.1916
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22.06.1917
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Commanding Officer, HMS
Centurion (battleship) (Grand Fleet)
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23.06.1917
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24.09.1917
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Rear-Admiral, 4th
Battle Squadron [HMS Colossus]
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25.09.1917
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31.12.1917
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Director of Plans, Admiralty
[HMS President]
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01.01.1918
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20.03.1919
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Acting Vice-Admiral in
command of Dover Patrol [HMS Arrogant (light cruiser) "or where
convenient"]
[in command of operations against Zeebrugge [successful] and Ostend
[unsuccessful], 23.04.1918 (KCB, KCVO, Grand Cross Order of Leopold, Grand
Officer Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre, French and Belgian, American
DSM)]
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21.03.1919
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31.03.1921
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Rear-Admiral Commanding
Battle Cruiser Area, Grand Fleet & from 08.04.1919 Rear-Admiral
Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Lion
(battlecruiser), from 18.05.1920 HMS Hood (battlecruiser)]
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26.10.1921
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30.10.1921
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HMS President (additional;
for duty inside Admiralty)
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01.11.1921
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15.05.1925
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a Lord Commissioner of
the Admiralty & Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President]
[reached agreement with RAF on dual control of Naval Air Service]
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15.05.1925
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08.06.1928
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Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] [assumed command 08.06.1925]
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29.04.1929
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09.06.1931
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Commander-in-Chief,
Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
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10.05.1940
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30.05.1940
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additional Naval
Attaché, Belgium (Special Liaison Officer to King of Belgium) [HMS
President (additional)]
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18.07.1940
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18.10.1941
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Director of Combined
Operations [HMS President (additional)]
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parliament (till 1943),
tour of lectures in the US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand (summer
1944) & observer during the Leyte landings (10.1944)
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MP (Nat. C.) Portsmouth (North) division,
1934-1943. Honorary Colonel Commandant of Portsmouth Division Royal Marines,
31.03.1932-1943.
Published: The naval memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger
Keyes (1934); Adventures ashore & afloat, etc. (1939); Amphibious
warfare and Combined Operations ... Lees Knowles Lectures, 1943 (1943); The
Keyes papers : selections from the private and official
correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge (ed.
by Paul G. Halpern) (1972-1981, 3 vols.)
Literature: C.F. Aspinall-Oglander, Roger Keyes : a biography of
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, G.C.B., K.C.V.O.,
C.M.G., D.S.O. (1951).
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