Royal Navy Captains of the Great War

This is a list of all Captains of all branches of the Royal Navy during the First World War. Dates of promotion are taken from editions of the Navy List, The London Gazette or biographical notices in The Times newspaper. Dates of birth are from The National Archives website, service records or biographical notices in The Times. There may be some discrepancies in dates of promotion, as sometimes the Navy List and London Gazette dates do not match.

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Captains of the Royal Navy, 1914 – 1918
Name	Born	Died	Date of Promotion	Final Rank	Retired
William John Standly Alderson	10 June, 1867	30 May, 1946	30 June, 1908	Vice-Admiral (Retired)	—
Argentine Hugh Alington			30 June, 1916
John Garnet Armstrong	19 July, 1870	30 April, 1949	31 December, 1908	Vice-Admiral	—
Rudolf Walter Bentinck			31 December, 1907
Henry Blackett			31 December, 1907
The Hon. Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle			31 December, 1907
The Hon. Hubert George Brand			31 December, 1907
Arthur Lindesay Cay	31 January, 1869	31 May, 1916	31 June, 1907	Captain	—
Charles Frederick Corbett			30 June, 1907
Arthur William Craig			30 June, 1908
Alexander Percy Davidson	30 March, 1868	11 February, 1930	22 June, 1911	Vice-Admiral (Retired)	28 September, 1921
Charles Martin de Bartolomé			31 December, 1907
Douglas Lionel Dent			30 June, 1908
Henry Montagu Doughty			30 June, 1908
Warren Hastings D'Oyly			30 June, 1908
John Edmund Drummond			30 June, 1908
Frederick Laurence Field			31 December, 1907
Cole Cortlandt Fowler			30 June, 1907
Frederick Dundas Gilpin-Brown			18 September, 1907
Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant			31 December, 1907
Henry William Grant			31 December, 1907
Sydney Stewart Hall			31 December, 1907
Edward Henry Fitzhardinge Heaton-Ellis (Commodore, 2nd Class)			30 June, 1908
Ronald Arthur Hopwood			30 June, 1907
William Milbourne James	22 December, 1881	17 August, 1973	18 October, 1917	Admiral
Henry Lancelot Mawbey			31 December, 1907
Thomas Drummond Pratt	4 November, 1870	24 January, 1962	31 December, 1911	Admiral (Retired)	2 July, 1927
Mortimer L'Estrange Silver	7 August, 1869	6 December, 1946	30 June, 1908	Vice-Admiral (Retired)	4 October, 1919
William Firth Slayter			30 June, 1907
Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith			30 June, 1910
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville			30 June, 1908
Philip Streatfeild	26 May, 1872		14 July, 1908	Captain	26 January, 1920
George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey			30 June, 1918
James Charles Tancred			30 June, 1908
SIR Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt (Acting Rear-Admiral 8 January, 1918)			30 June, 1908
Edwin Veale Underhill			31 December, 1907