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15.01.1898
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-
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14.05.1899
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HMS Britannia (RN
College, Dartmouth)
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15.05.1899
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-
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07.12.1902
|
HMS Crescent (cruiser)
(America and West Indies Station)
|
|
08.12.1902
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-
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20.07.1903
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HMS Revenge (battleship)
|
|
21.07.1903
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-
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04.10.1903
|
HMS Greyhound (destroyer)
|
|
05.10.1903
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-
|
13.04.1905
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HMS Hyacinth (light
cruiser) (East Indies Station)
|
|
14.04.1905
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-
|
06.09.1905
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HMS Good Hope (armoured
cruiser)
|
|
07.09.1905
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-
|
27.07.1906
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HMS Terrible (armoured cruiser)
|
|
28.07.1906
|
-
|
11.09.1906
|
HMS Renown (battleship)
|
|
12.09.1906
|
-
|
05.02.1909
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HMS Dreadnought (battleship)
|
|
06.02.1909
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-
|
14.06.1909
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (to qualify in signals)
|
|
15.06.1909
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-
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27.08.1909
|
HMS Edgar (large cruiser)
|
|
28.08.1909
|
-
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25.09.1910
|
Flag Lieutenant, HMS
Albemarle (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
|
26.09.1910
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-
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31.05.1912
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Flag Lieutenant, HMS Bacchante (armoured cruiser) (Mediterranean
Fleet)
|
|
01.06.1912
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-
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01.07.1912
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HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (for signals school)
|
|
02.07.1912
|
-
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21.02.1913
|
lent as Flag Lieutenant, HMS Illustrious (battleship) (for
manoeuvres)
|
|
22.02.1913
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-
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09.07.1913
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (for war staff course; psc)
|
|
10.07.1913
|
-
|
12.01.1914
|
HMS Euryalus (S)
(armoured cruiser) (for manoeuvres)
|
|
13.01.1914
|
-
|
30.06.1914
|
HMS Orion (battleship)
(for war staff duties)
|
|
01.07.1914
|
-
|
18.12.1914
|
Flag Lieutenant,
Signals Officer and War Staff Officer, HMS Dreadnought (battleship)
|
|
19.12.1914
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-
|
06.02.1915
|
Flag Lieutenant,
Signals Officer and War Staff Officer, HMS Benbow (battleship)
|
|
07.02.1915
|
-
|
08.1915
|
HMS President
(Admiralty) (additional;
for Signal Section, Admiralty War Staff)
|
|
08.1915
|
-
|
24.10.1917
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (additional; for command of M 25 (monitor)) (Dover Patrol)
|
|
25.10.1917
|
-
|
14.01.1919
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Broke (destroyer) (Dover Patrol)
|
|
15.01.1919
|
-
|
10.02.1919
|
HMS President
(additional; for special service)
|
|
11.02.1919
|
-
|
29.08.1920
|
HMS New Zealand
(battlecruiser) (additional; as Flag Commander and for War Staff Duties):
accompanied Lord Jellicoe on his mission to India and the Dominions,
1919-1920
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|
30.08.1920
|
-
|
19.11.1920
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
|
|
20.11.1920
|
-
|
04.1921
|
HMS Emperor of India
(battleship)
|
|
04.1921
|
-
|
12.05.1923
|
HMS Benbow (battleship)
|
|
13.05.1923
|
-
|
06.01.1924
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
|
|
07.01.1924
|
-
|
07.03.1924
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (for technical course)
|
|
08.03.1924
|
-
|
19.10.1924
|
HMS President (for
senior officers' war course)
|
|
20.10.1924
|
-
|
07.03.1925
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Weymouth (light cruiser)
|
|
08.03.1925
|
-
|
22.05.1927
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Danae (cruiser)
|
|
23.05.1927
|
-
|
26.07.1929
|
staff, War College,
Greenwich [HMS President]
|
|
27.07.1929
|
-
|
20.07.1931
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Kent (cruiser) & as Flag Captain & Chief of Staff, China Station
|
|
21.07.1931
|
-
|
24.11.1933
|
HMS President (for duty on
Instructional Staff of Imperial Defence College)
|
|
25.11.1933
|
-
|
15.08.1935
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Royal Sovereign (battleship)
(18.12.1934 : AdC to HM
King George V)
|
|
16.08.1935
|
-
|
10.01.1937
|
HMS Nelson (battleship)
(additional; as Chief of Staff, Home Fleet)
|
|
11.01.1937
|
-
|
09.01.1938
|
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
(additional; for technical course)
|
|
10.01.1938
|
-
|
24.09.1938
|
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) (additional; for tactical course)
|
|
25.09.1938
|
-
|
23.08.1939
|
HMS Pembroke (RN base,
Chatham) (additional; as Staff of
Commander-in-Chief [the] Nore)
|
|
24.08.1939
|
-
|
22.04.1942
|
Flag Officer
in Charge, Dover
[HMS Pembroke]
|
|
23.04.1942
|
-
|
17.06.1942
|
Flag Officer Expeditionary Force
|
|
18.06.1942
|
-
|
31.10.1942
|
Naval CinC Expeditionary Force.
(For the planning of Operation Torch, the North
African landings).
|
|
01.11.1942
|
-
|
19.07.1943
|
Deputy Naval
Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force
|
|
1943
|
|
|
During the
landings in Sicily (Operation
Husky, 9-10
July 1943) he did get to participate, commanding the eastern naval task force.
|
|
20.07.1943
|
-
|
25.10.1943
|
Additional for duty inside Admiralty [HMS President]
|
|
25.10.1943
|
-
|
02.01.1945
|
Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force
(ANCXF) - [HMS Odyssey]
(Under the
supreme command of General Eisenhower, he planned and oversaw the execution
of the D-Day landings in Normandy, 06 June 1944. When the landings were
successfully completed, he continued to control the supplies and naval
support to the Allied armies in Europe. He foresaw the necessity of clearing
the Scheldt so that the port of Antwerp could be used. The last operation
he oversaw was the landings on Walcheren which controlled the entrance to
the Scheldt.)
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|
02.01.1945
|
|
|
Discharged dead. He was killed when his aircraft,
a 'Hudson', crashed shortly after take-off, from an airfield just north of
Paris, near to his HQ which had been commissioned as HMS Royal Henry.
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