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Admirals of the Fleet

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
Sir John Cronyn Tovey		Commander-in-Chief, The Nore First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp	GCB, KBE, DSO, ADC	22 October 1943
Sir James Fownes Somerville		Head of the British Admiralty Delegation to Washington	GCB, KBE, DSO	8 May 1945

Admirals

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
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

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

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

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

Rear-admirals

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

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

1st Class

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

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	?