Mate (Royal Navy): Difference between revisions
From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to navigationJump to search
Simon Harley (talk | contribs) (Made Changes.) |
Simon Harley (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
{{reflist}} | |||
==Bibliography== | |||
{{refbegin}} | |||
{{refend}} | |||
[[Category:Royal Navy Officer Ranks]] | [[Category:Royal Navy Officer Ranks]] | ||
Revision as of 11:39, 10 December 2009
Of the 371 Mates promoted up to the time of the Armistice, only twenty-seven remained on the Active List by 18 March, 1937, two of whom were Captains and ten Commanders. 139 had retired under the "Geddes Axe" in 1922.[1]
Vice-Admiral Sir Benjamin Martin became the first Mate to reach the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1944. He was the first officer from the lower deck to achieve the flag rank on the Active List for eighty-seven years.[2]
Footnotes
Bibliography
