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FLAG OFFICERS IN COMMISSION, ko.—contd.
239
Stations.
Flag-Ships
or Ship
borne in.
Flag-Officers,
Officers Commanding
Squadrons, etc.
(1) Appointed,
(2) Assumed
Command.
(I) Chief of Staff,
Chief Staff Officer
or Flag Captain,
(2) Flag Lieut-
Corn, or Lieut.
Secretaries.
AMERICA AND
WEST
INDIES.
Bermuda
MEDITER- /
RANEAN
FLEET.
First Battle
Squadron
First Cruiser
Squadron
Third Cruiser
Squadron
Rear-Admiral
(D)
Malta
Gibraltar
Port Said
CHINA
Fifth
Cruiser
Squadron
Yangtse
Berwick
Exeter
Malabar
Warspite
Barham
Devonshire
Arethusa
Galatea
Flag flown
on shore
(Borne in
' St. Angelo '
Cormorant
St. Angelo
Kent
Cornwall
Scorpion
* Vice-Admiral Sir Sidney J.
Meyrick, kcb
(Commander - in - Chief,
America and West Indies
Station)
Commodore H. H. Harwood,
OBE
(Commanding SouthAmerica
Division of America and
West Indies Squadron)
Captain J. Powell, DSO.
(Captain-in-Charge, Naval
Establishments)
Admiral Sir Andrew B
Cunningham, kcb, dso
(Commander - in • Chief,
Mediterranean Station)
Vice-Admiral G. Layton,
CB, DSO
(Vice Admiral Commanding
1st Battle Squadron
and Second-in-Command,
Mediterranean Fleet).
Vice-Admiral J. H. D.
Cunningham, cb, mvo
(Vice-Admiral Commanding
1st Cruiser Squadron)
Bear-Admiral H. R. Moore
cb, cvo, dso (Bear
Admiral Commanding 3rd
Cruiser Squadron)
Vice-Admiral J. C. Tovey
CB, DSO
(Vice-Admiral (D) Com-
manding Destroyer Flo-
tillas of the Mediterranean
Fleet)
Vice-Admiral W. T. R.Ford
CB
(Vice- Admiral in Charge,
Malta, and Admiral Su-
perintendent, Malta Dock-
yard)
Bear-Admiral N. A. Wode-
house, CB
(Bear-Admiral in Charge,
Gibraltar, and Admiral
Superintendent, Gibraltar
Dockyard)
Commander H. A. Simpson,
OBE, DSC (ret)
(Naval Liaison Officer, Port
Said)
Admiral Sir Percy L. H
Noble, kcb, cvo
(Commander-in-Chief
China Station)
(1) 15 Apr 37
(2) 26 May 37
(1) 17 Sept 36
(2) 17 Sept 36
(1)20 Oct 38
(1) 1 June 39
(2) 6 June 39
(1) 23 July 38
(2) 10 Jan 39
(1) 19 Aug 38
(2) 19 Sept 38
(1) Captain I. M.
Palmer, DSC
(2) Lieut. J. S. H.
Lawrence
(1) Commodore
A. TJ. Willis, Dso
(2) Lieut. E. F. M.
Seymour
(1) Captain H.T.C.
Walker
(2) Lieut. R. A.
Price
(1) Captain J. M
Mansfield, dsc
(2) Lieut. R. T.
Paul
(1) 31 Mar 39 (1) Captain Q. D.
(2) 4 May 39 Graham
(2) Lieut. D. R.
H. Ferguson
(1) 5 Mar 38
(2) 4 Apr
(1) 26 Dec 36
(2) 26 Jan 37
(1) 28 Apr 39
(2) 24 May 39
(1) 23 May 33
(1) 9 Dec 37
(2) 5 Feb 38
(1) Captain E. G,
H. BeUars
(2) Lieut.-Com.
J. S. T. Inglis
(1) Captain Paym. Com.
E. C. Denison, R. H.
mvo Johnson
(2) Lieut.-Com. E. W. Colvill
W.H.B. Wallace (civilian)
Paym. Com.
R. H. .
Pearce
Paym. Lieut.
V. G. H.
Weekes
J. N. Furnell
(civilia?i)
Paym. Capt.
A P. Shaw
Paym. Com.
D. H. Doig
Paym. Com.
J. A. Miller
Paym. Com.
G. F Pine
Paym. Lieut.-
Com. R. W.
Paffard
(1) Captain G. R
S. Watkins.DSO
(2) Lieut.-Com.
E. H. Kitson
Bear-Admiral A. J. L.
Murray, DSO, OBE
(Bear-Admiral, Hh Cruiser
Squadron)
Bear-Admiral R. V. Holt,
CB, DSO, MVO
(Bear-Admiral and Senior
Naval Officer, Yangtse)
(1) 14 Apr 39
(2) 24 May 39
(1) 21 Dec 37
(2) 21 Dec 37
(1) Commodore
R. R. McGrigor
(2) Lieut.-Com. P.
H. Matheson
(1) Captain C. F.
Hammill
(2) Lieut. T. P.
Aubrey
(1) Captain L. S.
Saunders
(2) Lieut. D. W. E.
Chubb
Paym. Lieut.-
Com. J. E.
D. Smith
A. N. Deane
(civilian).
Paym. Capt.
W.McBrid
Paym.-Lieut.
Com. G. H.
Moore
Paym. Com.
W. J. G.
Prophit
•To be succeeded by Bear-Admiral G. S. Arbuthnot, C.B., D.S.O., appointed November, 1939.