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Admirals of the British Navy

VI VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN MICHAEL de ROBECK, K.C.B

Word Count: 385    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

"Britannia," and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1875. He became a Lieutenant on Sep

ys' Training Establishments. On December 1st, 1911, he became a Rear-Admiral. From April 8t

poli Peninsula. In his despatch published in the "London Gazette," July 6th, 1915, General Sir Ian Hamilton said, "Throughout the events I have chronicled, the Royal Navy has been father and mother to the Army. Not one of us realises how much he owes to Vice-Admiral de Robeck." Later in the year Sir Ian Hamilton wrote: "The sheet-anchor on which hung the whole of these elaborate schemes was the Navy. One tiny flaw in the mutual trust and

which took part in the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peni

1st, 1916, in recognition of the se

the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure (First Class)

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Admirals of the British Navy
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“IF the English are singularly incurious about their Navy, that attitude must not be thought to imply neglect. On the contrary, it is a blend of admiration, respect, and, above all, confidence, induced very largely by the Navy itself. For so long has the Navy minded its own silent business that we—otherwise so inquisitive a people—have come to look upon it as beyond examination and (normally too eager to cut open the drum and explore its resources) trustfully to leave it to its own devices, conscious that those devices are wholly in our own interests.”
1 INTRODUCTION2 I ADMIRAL SIR JOHN R. JELLICOE, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O3 II ADMIRAL SIR CECIL BURNEY, G.C.M.G., K.C.B4 III ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES EDWARD MADDEN, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O5 IV REAR-ADMIRAL RICHARD FORTESCUE PHILLIMORE, C.B., M.V.O6 V VICE-ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD H. S. BACON, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O7 VI VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN MICHAEL de ROBECK, K.C.B8 VII VICE-ADMIRAL TREVYLYAN DACRES WILLES NAPIER, C.B., M.V.O9 VIII REAR-ADMIRAL SIR OSMOND DE BEAUVOIR BROCK, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G10 IX REAR-ADMIRAL LIONEL HALSEY, C.B., C.M.G11 X VICE-ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM C. PAKENHAM, K.C.B., K.C.V.O12 XI COMMODORE GODFREY M. PAINE, C.B., M.V.O13 XII COMMODORE SIR REGINALD YORKE TYRWHITT, K.C.B., D.S.O