Grand Fleet
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The Grand Fleet was the British Royal Navy's main naval fleet during the First World War.
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.
Post-Jutland
Following the conference at Rosyth, on 23 September the Admiralty sent Jellicoe a letter entitled "Considerations as to the Employment of the Grand Fleet in the North Sea."[1]
At the end of the letter direct reference was made to Jellicoe's letter of 30 October, 1914, and Their Lordships' approval of its contents at the time. "Later experience has shown no reason to modify the approval then expressed."[2]
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.
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