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• Royal Naval War College
  ...ourse.jpg|thumb|right|450px|A group portrait of Commanders and Captains on the War Course which began in September, 1902. From left to right, standing: [ ...and then at Portsmouth. Branch war colleges were located at Devonport and the Nore.
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• John Foster Grant-Dalton
  ...r Grant-Dalton''' (10 May, 1873 – 11 August, 1938) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...t to the {{UK-Monarch|f=t}} on 19 November, 1889 and then to {{UK-Rodney}} on 14 May, 1890.
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• McKenna Papers at Churchill Archives Centre
  A list of the personal papers of [[Reginald McKenna]] in the possession of Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge. ...ld McKenna". Printed list to part of McKenna's correspondence, prepared by the Admiralty in 1912. 1 file. Mar 1912.
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• Frederic Charles Dreyer
  ...Inspector of Merchant Navy Gunnery and finally as Chief of Air Services at the Admiralty. ...rty-third, with 1,199 marks.<ref>"Cadetships in the Royal Navy" (News). ''The Times''. Thursday, 2 July, 1891. Issue '''33366''', col C, p. 8.</ref>
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• Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
  ...In 1912 he was dismissed in acrimonious circumstances by [[First Lord of the Admiralty]] [[Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill|Winston Churchill]] and wen He entered the Royal Navy as Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman Simpson.
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• George John Scott Warrender, Seventh Baronet
  ...and retire from the Navy in December of that year, dying early in 1917 at the age of fifty-six. George John Scott Warrender was born on 31 July, 1860, the second son of Sir George Warrender, Sixth Baronet, of Lochend, Haddingtonsh
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• Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss
  [[File:Wemyss Orpen.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss, portrayed as an Admiral.<b ...es Campaign]] during the [[First World War]], followed by his elevation to the position of [[First Sea Lord]] in 1917.
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• Tristan Dannreuther Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  A list of the papers of Captain [[Tristan Dannreuther]] in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, London. The Army & Navy Pocket Diary & Almanac for 1887 belonging to Tristan Dannreuthe
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• Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford
  ...itter feud which threatened to tear the navy in half in the early years of the Twentieth Century. ...father thrashed him with orders not to remount until he learned to ride." The third son William later declared, "that he would rather meet an army of Zul
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• Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet
  [[File:Vice-Admiral Wilson (LoC).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur K. Wilson (seen as a Vice-Admiral).<br><small>Image: Libra ...man, he refused a Peerage and only succeeded to the Wilson Baronetcy after the death of his brother in 1919.
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