Admiral Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, KCB, OBE (28 February 1929 – 3 May 2019) was a senior Royal Navy officer and former Vice-Chief of the Defence...
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Herbert (lawyer), British barrister and political activist Peter Herbert (Royal Navy officer) (1929–2019) This disambiguation page lists articles about people...
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admiral Peter Herbert (Royal Navy officer) (1929–2019), British Royal Navy admiral Thomas Herbert (Royal Navy officer) (1793–1861), British Royal Navy vice...
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former Royal Navy officer. He is the only living person, apart from King Charles III, holding the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy since...
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The Royal Navy Medical Service (RNMS), also termed the Royal Naval Medical Service is the branch of the Royal Navy responsible for providing 'comprehensive...
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Cunningham GCB, MVO, DL (13 April 1885 – 13 December 1962) was a Royal Navy officer. A qualified senior navigator, he became Director of Plans at the...
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Anthony Collins, Royal Navy, C041435C. Commander Peter Alexander Evans, Royal Navy, C041590T. Commander Richard Lee Kemp, Royal Navy, C040775H. Commander...
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post-holder is responsible for procurement and matériel in the British Royal Navy. Originally the post-holder was a member of the Board of Admiralty and...
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Andrew Jones, GCB, DL (born 14 February 1960) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer. After service in the South Atlantic in 1982 during the Falklands...
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Graham Moore GCB, GCMG (1764 – 25 November 1843) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the...
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the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672, he was pressed into service in the Royal Navy. He is recorded serving as a midshipman aboard the Swallow in the Mediterranean...
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Sir Charles Saunders KB (c. 1715 – 7 December 1775) was a British Royal Navy officer. He commanded the fourth-rate HMS Gloucester and led her in action...
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establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon, England. Royal Naval officer training has taken place...
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Rear-Admiral Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly, CB, DSO, RN (24 September 1904 – 13 February 1980) was a senior Royal Navy officer. Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond...
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Australians who have attained admiral rank within the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); that is, officers who have held the rank of admiral (four-star rank),...
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The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. Together with the Royal Marines Reserve...
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and children now known as the Pinjarra massacre. Stirling entered the Royal Navy at age 12 and as a midshipman saw action in the Napoleonic Wars. Rapid...
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PC (1670 or 1671 – 13 June 1749) was a Royal Navy officer and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer during the Nine Years' War and the Williamite...
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Andrews, Royal Navy, D257452S. Lieutenant Commander Ross Donald Balfour, Royal Navy, C040712E. Warrant Officer 1 James Adrian Cuthbert, Royal Marines,...
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First Sea Lord (category Naval Staff of the Royal Navy)
the highest-ranking officer to serve in the Royal Navy, the chief is the principal military advisor on matters pertaining to the navy and a deputy to the...
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LVO, DSC (19 October 1916 – 27 September 2006) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff...
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Admiral of the Fleet Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, GCB (8 February 1915 – 16 May 2004) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second...
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received an eighth medal, the Arctic Emblem. King ended his Royal Navy career as executive officer of the submarine depot ship Forth, an appointment he held...
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Revolution. Born the son of Sir Edward Herbert and Margaret Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith, Herbert joined the Royal Navy in 1663. He was appointed a lieutenant...
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GCB, KCVO, FRS (21 January 1855 – 14 December 1929) was a British Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Anglo-Zulu War he established an early reputation...
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Minet Staveley GCB, DL (10 November 1928 – 13 October 1997) was a Royal Navy officer. Staveley saw service as a minesweeper commander on coastal patrol...
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Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy, who later became an admiral. The second baronet was also a Royal Navy admiral and sat as Member of...
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Group captain (redirect from Group Officer)
its own rank titles, it was suggested that the RAF might use the Royal Navy's officer ranks, with the word "air" inserted before the naval rank title....
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The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, providing courses for naval officers. It was the home...
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1944 Birthday Honours (BEM) (section Royal Navy)
Royal Naval Flag Officer-in-Charge, London. Frederick Neath, Welfare Officer, Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. Alexander Nelson, Boatswain, Merchant Navy....
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