Contributed by Graham E Watson (easton.watson@lineone.net), based on various Navy Lists. The numbers in brackets are their ages, either in 1914 or upon promotion to Flag rank.
Lord Fisher [73] First Sea Lord 10.14-5.15
ADMIRALS
Hedworth Meux [58] CinC Portsmouth -3.16
Richard Poore [61] CinC Nore -2.15
Berkeley Milne [59] CinC Mediterranean -11.14
Prince Louis of Battenburg [60] First Sea Lord -10.14
George Egerton [62] CinC Plymouth -9.16
George Callaghan [62] CinC Home Fleet-8.14
CinC Nore 2.15-2.18 [AF 4.17]
Robert Lowry [60] CinC Scottish Coast -6.16
Henry Jackson [59] Admiralty War Staff -8.14
First Sea Lord 5.15-12.16
RNC Greenwich 1.17-
VICE ADMIRALS
Stanley Colville [53] Orkneys & Shetlands9.14-2.16 [Admiral]
CinC Portsmouth 3.16-
Arthur Farquhar [59] Admiral cmdg Reserves - .15
John Jellicoe [55] CinC Grand Fleet 8.14- [3.15 Admiral]
First Sea Lord 12.16-12.17
Frederick Hamilton [58] Second Sea lord -6.16
CinC Rosyth 6.16-11.17 (died)
Cecil Burney [56] CinC 2nd Fleet -12.14
1st Battle Squadron 12.14-11,16 [6.16Admiral]
Second Sea Lord 11.16-8.17
CinC Rosyth 11.17-
Alexander Bethell [59] CinC 3rd Fleet -9.14
RNC Greenwich 10.14-12.14
CinC 2nd Fleet 1-3.15
Admiral cmdg Reserves .15 - [6.16 Admiral]
CinC Plymouth 9.16-
Frederick Brock [60] Gibraltar -10.15
Orkneys & Shetland 2.16-1.18 [4.17Admiral]
Charles Coke [60] CinC Irish Coast -7.15
Martyn Jerram [56] CinC China -11.15
2nd Battle Squadron 12.15-11.16
George Warrendar [54] 2nd Battle Squadron -12.15
CinC Plymouth 3-9.16 (died 1917)
Douglas Gamble [58] 4th Battle Squadron -2.15
Doveton Sturdee [55] Admiralty War Staff 8-11.14
South Atlantic 11.14-2.15
4th Battle Squadron 2.15-2.18
CinC Nore 3.18- [Admiral]
Edward Bradford [56] 3rd Battle Squadron -5.16
VICE ADMIRAL (retired)
Roger Bacon [51] Dover Patrol 4.15-12.17
REAR ADMIRALS
Sackville Carden [57] Malta -2.15 Aegean 2-3.15 [VAd 8.14]
Richard Farquahar [55] Ordnance Committee -16 [VAd 9.14]
Lewis Bayly [57] 1st Battle Squadron 9-12.14 [VAd 9.14]
CinC 2nd Fleet 12.14-1.15
RNC Greenwich 1-7.15
CinC Irish Coast 7.15- [Admiral 10.17]
George Patey [55] Australian Squadron -3.15 [VAd 9.14]
CinC North America & West Indies 3.15-9.16
Head Royal Australian Naval Board .17-
Arthur Limpus [51] Malta Dockyard 9.14-10.16 [VAd 9.14]
Richard Peirse [54] CinC East Indies -12.15 [VAd 10.14]
Herbert King-Hall [52] CinC Cape -1.16 [VAd 2.15]
Orkneys & Shetlands 1.18- [Admiral 1.18]
William Lowther Grant [50] 6th Cruiser Squadron
3rd Cruiser Squadron 3.15- [VAd 3.15]
CinC China 11.15-6.17
CinC NAWI 2.18- [Admiral 9.18]
David Beatty [43] Battlecruiser Squadron [VAd 8.15]
CinC Grand Fleet 12.16- [actgAdmiral]
Loftus Tottenham [54] 8th Battle Squadron 9.14-
7th Cruiser Squadron 4-10.15 [VAd 10.15]
Charles Dundas [55] Transport Officer/BEF 15- [VAd 1.16]
Christopher Cradock [55] 4th Cruiser Squadron-11.14
KIA 1.11.14 Battle of Coronel
Reginald Tupper [55] West Coast of Scotland 8.14-
10th Cruiser Squadron 3.16- [VAd 1.16]
Bernard Currey [? ] 5th Battle Squadron -3.15
Gibraltar 10.15-7.17 [VAd 1.16]
Ernest Troubridge [52] 1st Cruiser Squadron/Med -9.14
Archibald Moore [52] 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron 8.14-2.15
9th Cruiser Squadron 2- ?.15
Charles Madden [52] Chief of Staff, Grand Fleet 8.14-2.16[VAd6.16]
1st Battle Squadron 12.16-
Rosslyn Wemyss [50] 12th Cruiser Squadron 8.14-2.15
Mudros 3-11.15
CinC East Indies 12.15-6.17
Second Sea Lord 8-9.17
Deputy First Sea lord 9-12.17
First Sea Lord 12.17-
Charles Anson [55] Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard -8.15
Cecil Thursby [53] 5th Battle Squadron 8.14-3.15
Aegean 4.15
Taranto 5.15-15,16
Eastern Mediterranean 8.16-8.17 [VAd 4.17]
Admiral cmdg Reserves 7.17- 7.18
CinC Plymouth 8.18-
Arthur Christian [?] Southern Force 8-9.14
Mudros 11,15- .17
Somerset Gough-Calthorpe [50] 2nd Cruiser Squadron -5.16
Second Sea Lord 6-11.16
Admiral cmdg Reserves 11.16-7.17[VAd4.17]
CinC Mediterranean 8.17-
Herbert Heath [53] Superintendent, Portsmouth Dockyard-8.15
2nd Cruiser Squadron 5-11.16
3rd Battle Squadron 11.16-9.17 [VAd 4.17]
Second Sea Lord 9.17-
Montagu Browning [51] 2i/c 3rd Battle Squadron -11.15
3rd Cruiser Squadron 11.15-8.16
CinC NAWI 9.16-2.18 [VAd 4.17]
4th Battle Squadron 4.18-
John de Robeck [52] Cape Verde 9.14-
2i/c Eastern Mediterrenean 1-3.15
Eastern Mediterranean 3.15-5.16
3rd Battle Squadron 5-11.16
2nd Battle Squadron 11.16- [VAd 5.17]
Arthur Waymouth [51] Director of Naval Equipment -12.14
7th Cruiser Squadron 1-4.15
Superintendent, Portsmouth Dockyard 8.15-7.17
Godfrey Mundy [54] Superintendent, Devonport Dockyard -12.16
Archibald Stoddert [54] 5th Cruiser Squadron -9.14
South Atlantic 9-12.14
Hugh Evan Thomas [52] 2i/c 1st Battle Squadron -8.15
5th Battle Squadron 8.15-10.18 [VAd 9.17]
Robert Arbuthnot [50] 2i/c 2nd Battle Squadron -1.15
1st Cruiser Squadron 1.15-31.5.16 KIA
Stuart Nicholson [49] 6th Battle Squadron -4.16
East Coast of England 5.16-7.18 [VAd9.17]
Dudley de Chair [50] 10th Cruiser Squadron 8.14-3.16
3rd Battle Squadron 9.17-6.18 [VAd 9.17]
Admiral cmdg Reserves 7.18-
Henry Campbell [49] 7th Cruiser Squadron 8-9.14
Federick Tudor [51] Third Sea Lord 8.14-5.17
CinC China 6.17 [VAd 10.17]
Alexander Duff [52] Director of Mobilisation 8.14-
2i/c 4th Battle Squadron 10.14-1.17
Director Anti-submarine Warfare Division 1.17-
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff 5.17- [VAd 1.18]
Edward Charlton [49] Minesweepers 9.14-2.15
CinC Cape 6.16-5.18 [VAd 1.18]
East Coast of England 7.18-
Robert Phipps Hornby [48] 11th Cruiser Squadron 8-9.14
CinC NAWI 9.14-3.15 (invalided)
Mark Kerr [50] attached Greek Navy - .15
Taranto 5.16-1.17
Royal Naval Air Service 1.17-3.18
Horace Hood [44] Naval Secretary 8-10.14
2 i/c Dover Patrol 10.14-4.15
3rd Battlecruiser Squadron 5.15-31.5.16 KIA
John Eustace [53] Ministry of Munitions 15/19 [VAd 8.18]
William Pakenham [53] 3rd Cruiser Squadron -3.15
2nd Battlecruiser Squadron 2.15-12.16
Battlecruiser Fleet 12.16-12.18 [VAd 9.18]
Francis Miller [51] 9th Battle Squadron 8-9.14
Trevelyan Napier [47] 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron 1.15-1.17
1st Cruiser Squadron 1.17-12.18 [VAd 10.18]
Arthur Leveson [52] Director Operations Division-1.15
2i/c 2nd Battle Squadron 2.15-12.16
2nd Battlecruiser Squadron 12.16-10.18
5th Battle Squadron 10.18-
Sydney Fremantle [47] 2i/c 3rd Battle Squadron .15- .17
Aegean 8.17-1.18
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff 1.18-
Henry Oliver [49] Director of Naval Intelligence -8.14
Naval Secretary 10-11.14
Admiralty War Staff 11.14-5.17
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff 5.17-1.18
2 i/c 1st Battle Squadron 1.18-
Edmond Pears [52] Cromarty Firth 8.14-?
Arthur Ricardo [53] Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard 8.15-
George Ballard [52] Admiral of Patrols -5.16
Malta 9.16-
Morgan Singer [50] Director of Naval Ordnance -12.16-
2 i/c NAWI 12.16-
& 9th Cruiser Squadron 12.17-
Promotions to Rear Admiral 1914-1918
1914
Ernest Gaunt [49] RN Barracks, Chatham 10.14-
2 i/c 1st Battle Squadron 8.15-12.16
CinC East Indies 6.17-
Robert Prendergast [50] Sheerness Dockyard 11.14-6.15
Scapa Flow .16- .18
1915
Cecil Dampier [47] not employed 1915/18
2 i/c Dover 1918-
Osmond Brock [46] 2 i/c Battlecruiser Squadron 3.15-
1st Battlecruiser Squadron 8.15-
Chief of Staff, Grand Fleet 12.16-
Edmund Smith [50] Sheerness Dockyard 6.15-
Arthur Hayes Sadler [52] not employed 1915/18 Aegean 1-2.18
Richard Phillimore [51] Russia 8.15- .16
1st Battlecruiser Squadron 11.16-
& Aircraft Carriers 1.18-
Charles Vaughan Lee [48] Royal Naval Air Service 8.15-1.17
Superintendent, Portsmouth Dockyard 1.17-
Edward Fitzherbert [51] Director Mines & Torpedoes 10.15-5.18
CinC Cape 5.18-
1916
Douglas Nicholson [49] not employed 1.16-
2i/c 4th Battle Squadron 6.17-
Cecil Hickey [51] Director of Training 1.16-
Arthur Henniker-Hughan [50] not employed 1.16-
Superintendent, Devonport Dockyard 12.16-
Francis Kennedy [53] not employed 6.16-
Chief of Staff, Nore .18-
Heathcote Grant [52] not employed 6.16-
2 i/c Dover .17-
Gibraltar 7.17-
Thomas Jackson [48] Director Operations Division 1.15- [RAd 6.16]
Egypt & Red Sea 7.17-
William Goodenough [49] 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron -12.16 [RAd 6.16]
2 i/c 2nd Battle Squadron 1.17-
Michael Culme-Seymour [49] Director of Mobilisation 14- [RAd 6.16]
2nd Light Cruiser Squadron 2.18-
Aegean 5.18-
William Nicholson [53] not employed
John Parry [53] Hydrographer 1914- [RAd 6.16]
Lawrence Power [52] Director of dockyards 12.16-
1917
George Hope [48] Director Operations Division 5.17-
Deputy First Sea Lord 1.18-
Roger Keyes [45] 2 i/c 4th Battle Squadron 5.17-
Director of Plans 6.17-
Dover Patrol 12.17-
Cecil Lambert [53] 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron -2.18
Aegean 2-4.18
attached RAF 4.18-
Hugh Tothill [52] Fourth Sea Lord 5.17-
Victor Stanley [50] Russia 1918
Lionel Halsey [45] Third Sea Lord 5.17-
2nd Battlecruiser Squadron 6.18-
Edward Alexander-Sinclair [52] 1st Light Cruiser Squadron -7.17
6th Light Cruiser Squadron 7.17-
James Fergusson [46] Mediterranean Patrols 4.17-4.18
2nd Light Cruiser Squadron 5.18-
William Hall [46] Director of Naval Intelligence 14/19 [RAd 4.17]
Henry Bruce [55] Rosyth Dockyard .15- .20 [RAd 4.17]
Clement Greatorex [48] Director of Naval Equipment -.18
Shetlands .18-
George Caley [51] Harwich Base 4.17-
Alan Everett [49] Naval Secretary -10.18
4th Light Cruiser Squadron 10.18-
Henry Pelly [50] not employed
Thomas Hunt [51] 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron 7.17-
Lewis Clinton-Baker [51] Minelayers 1.18-
John Green [51] White Sea .18-
Vivian Bernard [49] Portland Base 9.17-
Edward Bruen [51] not employed
James Ley [48] Director Staff Duties 1.18-
Edmund Hyde-Parker [49] Director of Mobilisation 1.18-
William Ruck-Keene [50] not employed
1918
Edward Phillpotts [47] Director Naval Equipment 1.18-
Frederick Learmouth [52] Director Fixed Defences 3.18-
Philip Colomb [51] Pacific 9.17- [RAd 4.18]
George Borrett [ ?] 7th Light Cruiser Squadron 4.18- [RAd 8.18]
Brian Barttelot [51] Malta Dockyard
Walter Cowan [47] 1st Light Cruiser Squadron .17- [RAd 9.18]
Richard Webb [48] Turkey 11.18-
Maurice Woolcombe [50] not employed [RAd 10.18]
Edward Kiddle [52] Austria-Hungary 11.18-
ENGINEER VICE ADMIRAL
Henry Oram [56] Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty -6.17
ENGINEER REAR ADMIRAL
George Goodson [52] Deputy Engineer-in-Chief -6.17
Engineer-in-Chief 6.17- [VAd]
Ernest Ellis [?] Inspector of Naval Ordnance -17
William Pamphlett [?] Admiralty staff ?
Albert Westaway [?] ??
Arthur Turner [53] Chief Engineer, Grand Fleet - .17
Sylvester Rawling [?] ??
William Anstey [54] Assistant Engineer-in-Chief - .17
William Mogg [54] Chief Engineer, Home Fleet/2nd Fleet -1916
Chief Engineer, Portsmouth 7.16-
Edward Gaudin [?] Assistant Engineer-in-Chief -6.17
Deputy Engineer-in-Chief 6.17-
Promotions to Engineer Rear Admiral
George Hudson [55] Chief Engineer, Nore 5.16-
William Whittingham [54] Chief Engineer, Scottish Coast 11.16-
William Juniper [?] attached Nore Command 5.17-
John Richardson [55] Chief Engineer, East Coast of England 6.17-
Charles Jones [55] promoted 10.17 -post?
Henry Humphreys [? ] Chief Engineer, Plymouth 4.18-
Fred Hoare [55] promoted 4.18 -post?
Arthur Kingsnorth [54] promoted 1918 -post?
Archie Emdin [53] Engineer Manager, Malta Dockyard
PAYMASTER REAR ADMIRAL
rank created 7.18
William Whyte [55] Paymaster-in-Chief, Admiralty 7.18-
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