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Fleet Air Arm Service Records:
SEA LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY
1939-1945
Japanese instrument of Surrender onboard USS
MISSOURI 1945
Representatives of the Allied Powers. From
right to left, General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, then behind him
and standing in the order in which they would sign the surrender documents
are: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (U. S. Representative), General Hsu
Yung-Ch'ang (Republic of China), Admiral Sir Bruce A.Fraser (UK), Lt. General
Kuzma Derevyanko (Soviet Union), General Sir Thomas Blamey (Commonwealth of
Australia), Colonel L. More Cosgrove (Dominion of
Canada), General Jacques Le Clerc (French Republic), Admiral CEL Helfrich (Kingdom of the Netherlands) and Air Vice Marshal Leonard M. Isitt (Dominion of New Zealand).
Commemorating
in 2000 the 60th Anniversary of Operation Judgement, night air strike on the
Italian fleet and harbour at Taranto
11 November 1940
FIRST
SEA LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY 1939-1945
Admiral Sir Roger R.C.
Backhouse
1938-1939
Admiral Sir Dudley
Pound
1939-1943
Admiral Viscount Cunningham of
Hyndhope
1943-1946
Admiral Sir John H.D.
Cunningham
1946-1948
Admiral Lord Fraser of North
Cape
1948-1951
Admiral Sir Rhoderick
McGrigor
1951-1955
Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma
1955-1959
Summary biographies of wartime
Admirals
Admiral Sir Arthur Cunningham
Admiral Sir Dudley
Pound
Admiral Sir Bertram Home
Ramsay
Admiral Sir James
Somerville
Admiral John Tovey
Admiral Sir Andrew
B. Cunningham
Vice Admiral
(1936) Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C)
Mediterranean
6.6.1939
Promoted
Admiral
3.1.1941
Appointed
GCB
11.1.1941
Head of British Admiralty Delegation,
Washington DC,
USA 4.1942
Appointed Naval Commander-in-Chief, Allied
Expeditionary
Force (NXCF) North Africa and
Mediterranean
10.1942
Promoted Admiral of the
Fleet
21.1.1943
Reappointed Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean
2.1943
Appointed Admiralty First Sea
Lord
16.10.1943
Leaves the
Admiralty
6.6.1944
Admiral Sir
Andrew B. Cunningham biography by british-forces.com.
Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
Admiral Sir
Dudley Pound
CinC
Mediterranean
?-1939
Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea
Lord
1939 - 1943
Admiral Pound died from a brain
tumour
1943
Admiral Sir Dudley
Pound biography by british-forces.com
Admiral Sir Bertram Home
Ramsay
Admiral Ramsey
Rear
Admiral
1935
Chief of Staff. to commander-in-chief of the
Home Fleet
1935
Retired
list
1938
Active duty after the declaration of
War
Sept 1939
Flag Officer
Dover
1939
Appointed Vice-Admiral,
Dover
Oct 1939
Acting rank Admiral Naval C-in-C
Expeditionary force op Torch July 1942
Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary force op
Neptune D-day
Died in air
crash
2.1.1945
Admiral Sir
Bertram Home Ramsay biography by british-forces.com
Admiral Sir James
Somerville
Son of New Zealand
sheep farmer
Appointed
Vice-Admiral
Sept 1937
In command of the East Indies
station
1938
Order of the Bath and placed on the retired
list
31 July 1939
Returned to active duty after the declaration
of
War
Sept 1939
Appointed in Command Force
H
1939/1940-1941
Appointed in Command Eastern
Fleet
End 1941-Early 1945
Head of the British Naval Mission in
Washington
1945
Admiral Sir
James Somerville biography by british-forces.com
Admiral John Tovey
Rear-Admiral
1935
Rear Admiral (Destroyers)
Mediterranean
March 1938
Vice
Admiral
May 1939
Commander of Allied light forces
(Mediterranean)
1939
Second-in-command under
Cunningham
1939
Acting rank of Admiral
1940
Commander-in-Chief of the Home
Fleet
1940
Command the
Nore
1942?
Admiral John Tovey
biography by british-forces.com
Admiral Bruce Austin
Fraser (Fraser of North
Cape 1st Baron)
Controller of the
Navy and Third Sea
Lord
1.3.1939
Vice-Admiral
8.5.1940
awarded the
KBE
1941
Succeeded Admiral Tovey as commander of the
Home
Fleet
8.5.1943
Command the far Eastern
Fleet
1944-1945
Signed the Japanese surrender papers for Great
Britain in Tokyo Bay 2.9.1945
Admiral Bruce
Fraser biography by british-forces.com.
Admiral Sir Percy Noble
Commander-in-Chief,
Western
Approaches
?-11.1942
Head of the
British Naval Mission, Washington DC, USA
?-1945
Admiral Sir Percy Noble
account in Canonesa, Convoy HX72 & U-100 web.
Admiral Sir Max Kennedy
Horton
Commander-in-Chief,
Western
Approaches
17.11.1942 - Aug 1945
Admiral Sir Max
Kennedy Horton biography by Uboat.net.
Admiral Charles
Forbes
Commander-in-Chief
of the Home
Fleet
up till 1940
 CHURCHILL SOCIETY
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Created: 3-04-2001, Last Modified 3-04-2005
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