Naval Publicity Department (Royal Navy)
The Naval Publicity Department was a department at the Admiralty which apparently existed between 1918 and 1919. It has an entry in at least two editions of The Navy List. A considerable number of its staff appears to have been drawn from the Publicity Section of the Naval Intelligence Division.[1] Among those lent to it were artists such as Sir John Lavery and Glyn Philpot. Rear-Admiral Sir Guy R. A. Gaunt, was listed in The Navy List dated 18 November, 1918, as "Director of Naval Publicity,"[2] but as of the edition dated 15 December, there was only "Officer in Charge of Naval Publicity," Commander Colpoys C. Walcott, the former head of the Publicity Section.[3] Admiral Gaunt, whose service record shows only an appointment to the Naval Intelligence Division on 9 May, 1918,[4] made no specific reference to the Department in his memoirs.
Footnotes
- ↑ Compare the members listed in the following editions of the Navy List with the staff of the Publicity Section listed in "Office Memorandum. Naval Intelligence Division. Publicity Section." Docket entitled "Air Department Documents: Organisation of Duties of Admiralty Concerning the Air Services June 1917 – Feby 1918." The National Archives. AIR 1/279/15/226/127.
- ↑ The Navy List, for December, 1918, Corrected to the 18th November, 1918. p. 1517a.
- ↑ The Navy List, for January, 1919, Corrected to the 18th December, 1918. p. 1817a.
- ↑ Gaunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 161.
Bibliography
- Gaunt, Admiral Sir Guy (1940). The Yield of the Years: A Story of Adventure Afloat and Ashore. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
