Grand Fleet
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The Grand Fleet was the British Royal Navy's main naval fleet during the First World War.
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Grand Fleet Flag officers at the fleet boxing championship, 3 August, 1916. Left to right: Lionel Halsey, Sir T. H. Martyn Jerram, Sir Cecil Burney, Herbert L. Heath, Hugh Evan-Thomas, William C. M. Nicholson, Sir Charles E. Madden, and Sir F. C. Doveton Sturdee.
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The King and Queen of the Belgians on the Quarter Deck of the fleet flag ship Queen Elizabeth in July, 1918. Left to right: Sir William Goodenough, Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, Sir David Beatty, King Albert of Belgium, Sir John de Robeck, Elizabeth (Queen Consort of the Belgians), Sir Richard Phillimore, Rear-Admiral William C. M. Nicholson, and Vice-Admiral Osmond Brock.
Photo: Imperial War Museum.
Photo: Imperial War Museum.