Robert Henry Ames

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Lieutenant-Commander Robert Henry Ames, (26 October, 1883 – 25 August, 1930) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Ames was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 February, 1904.

Ames was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 15 February, 1912.

Ames was found to have wilfully contravened regulation in causing the wine account in Albion to have been kept in a "grossly improper manner." Other reports made it clear that he drank to excess.

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Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Geoffrey T. Bowles
Captain of H.M. T.B. 72
21 Jul, 1903[1]
Succeeded by
Frederic A. H. Russel
Preceded by
Austin C. Ackland
Captain of H.M.S. Lightning
Oct, 1909[2]c. Mar, 1910[3]
Succeeded by
Edmund A. T. de P. de la Poer

Footnotes

  1. "APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 16, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37134.
  2. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 341.
  3. Service Record only indicates the year.