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'''Director of Operation Division (D.O.D.):'''
 
'''Director of Operation Division (D.O.D.):'''
  
<div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Director of Operations Division}}
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<div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=George Alexander Ballard|nick=George A. Ballard|appt=8 January, 1912{{UKNavalStaff|p. 121}}|precBy=New Appointment|end=1 May, 1914<ref>Ballard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 65.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=George Alexander Ballard|nick=George A. Ballard|appt=8 January, 1912{{UKNavalStaff|p. 121}}|precBy=New Appointment|end=1 May, 1914<ref>Ballard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 65.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Arthur Cavenagh Leveson|nick=Arthur C. Leveson|appt=1 May, 1914<ref>Leveson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 472.</ref>|end=16 January, 1915<ref>Leveson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 472.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Arthur Cavenagh Leveson|nick=Arthur C. Leveson|appt=1 May, 1914<ref>Leveson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 472.</ref>|end=16 January, 1915<ref>Leveson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 472.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Thomas Jackson|nick=Thomas Jackson|appt=17 January, 1915{{UKNavalStaff|p. 121}}<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 496.</ref>|end=11 June, 1917<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 496.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Thomas Jackson|nick=Thomas Jackson|appt=17 January, 1915{{UKNavalStaff|p. 121}}<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 496.</ref>|end=11 June, 1917<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 496.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=11 June, 1917{{UKNavalStaff|p. 121}}|end=9 January, 1918<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 23/44.</ref>|succBy=[[Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|A. Dudley P. R. Pound]] (Home) and [[Charles Penrose Rushton Coode|Charles P. R. Coode]] (Foreign)}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=11 June, 1917{{UKNavalStaff|p. 121}}|end=9 January, 1918<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 23/44.</ref>|succBy=[[Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|A. Dudley P. R. Pound]] (Home) and [[Charles Penrose Rushton Coode|Charles P. R. Coode]] (Foreign)}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble|nick=Percy L. H. Noble|appt=8 March, 1928|end=8 January, 1930}}
 
</div name=fredbot:office0>
 
</div name=fredbot:office0>
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'''Assistant Director of Operation Division (A.D.O.D.):'''
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<div name=fredbot:officeADOD otitle="Assistant Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry William Grant|nick=Henry W. Grant|appt=19 May, 1915<ref>Grant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/69.|D7602414}} f. 76.</ref>|end=11 June, 1917<ref>Grant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/69.|D7602414}} f. 76.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Penrose Rushton Coode|nick=Charles P. R. Coode|appt=11 June, 1917<ref>Coode Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/98.|D7602443}} f. 105.</ref>|end=18 January, 1918<ref>Coode Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/98.|D7602443}} f. 105.</ref>}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeADOD>
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'''Deputy Director of Operation Division (D.D.O.D.):'''
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<div name=fredbot:officeDDOD otitle="Deputy Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry William Grant|nick=Henry W. Grant|appt=11 June, 1917<ref>Grant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/69.|D7602414}} f. 76.</ref>|end=18 January, 1918<ref>Grant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/69.|D7602414}} f. 76.</ref>}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeDDOD>
  
 
'''D.O.D. (Home):'''
 
'''D.O.D. (Home):'''
  
<div name=fredbot:office1 otitle="Director of Operations Division (Home)" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Director of Operations Division (Home)}}
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<div name=fredbot:office1 otitle="Director of Operations Division (Home)" nat="UK">
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|nick=A. Dudley P. R. Pound|appt=12 January, 1918<ref>Pound Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 294.</ref>|end=15 July, 1919<ref>Pound Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 294.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|nick=A. Dudley P. R. Pound|appt=12 January, 1918<ref>Pound Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 294.</ref>|end=15 July, 1919<ref>Pound Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 294.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Donald Kelly|nick=John D. Kelly|appt=15 July, 1919{{UKNavalStaff|p. 122}}<ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|end=1 April, 1920<ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|succBy=[[Operations Division (Royal Navy)|Operations Division]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Donald Kelly|nick=John D. Kelly|appt=15 July, 1919{{UKNavalStaff|p. 122}}<ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|end=1 April, 1920<ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|succBy=[[Operations Division (Royal Navy)|Operations Division]]}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
 
 
</div name=fredbot:office1>
 
</div name=fredbot:office1>
  
 
'''D.O.D. (Foreign):'''
 
'''D.O.D. (Foreign):'''
  
<div name=fredbot:office2 otitle="Director of Operations Division (Foreign)" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Director of Operations Division (Foreign)}}
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<div name=fredbot:office2 otitle="Director of Operations Division (Foreign)" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Penrose Rushton Coode|nick=Charles P. R. Coode|appt=18 January, 1918{{UKNavalStaff|p. 122}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Penrose Rushton Coode|nick=Charles P. R. Coode|appt=18 January, 1918<ref>Coode Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/98.|D7602443}} f. 105.</ref>{{UKNavalStaff|p. 122}}|end=31 March, 1920<ref>Coode Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/98.|D7602443}} f. 105.</ref>}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
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</div name=fredbot:office2>
 
</div name=fredbot:office2>
  
 
'''D.O.D.:'''
 
'''D.O.D.:'''
  
<div name=fredbot:office3 otitle="Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Director of Operations Division}}
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<div name=fredbot:office3 otitle="Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Donald Kelly|nick=John D. Kelly|appt=1 April, 1920<ref>"Office Acquaint. No. 71."  1 April, 1920.  {{TNA|ADM 116/1803.}}</ref><ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|end=15 February, 1922<ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|precBy=separate Home and Foreign Divisions}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Donald Kelly|nick=John D. Kelly|appt=1 April, 1920<ref>"Office Acquaint. No. 71."  1 April, 1920.  {{TNA|ADM 116/1803.}}</ref><ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|end=15 February, 1922<ref>Kelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 166.</ref>|precBy=separate Home and Foreign Divisions}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Wise Parker|nick=Henry W. Parker|appt=1 February, 1922{{UKNavalStaff|p. 123}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Wise Parker|nick=Henry W. Parker|appt=1 February, 1922{{UKNavalStaff|p. 123}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfred Tomkinson|nick=Wilfred Tomkinson|appt=21 November, 1923{{UKNavalStaff|p. 123}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfred Tomkinson|nick=Wilfred Tomkinson|appt=21 November, 1923{{UKNavalStaff|p. 123}}|end=}}
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</div name=fredbot:office3>
 
</div name=fredbot:office3>
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==Deputy Directors==
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<div name=fredbot:officeDep otitle="Deputy Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Dominick Burke|nick=Charles D. Burke|appt=1 March, 1921<ref>Burke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 138.</ref>|end=31 March, 1922<ref>Burke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 138.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alister Francis Beal|nick=Alister F. Beal|appt=2 September, 1921<ref>Beal Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/54.|}} f. 62.</ref>|end=12 July, 1923<ref>Beal Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/54.|}} f. 62.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Geoffrey Layton|nick=Geoffrey Layton|appt=8 August, 1927<ref>Layton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/134.|D7604233}} f. ?.</ref>|end=8 August, 1929<ref>Layton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/134.|D7604233}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Ross Turner|nick=Robert R. Turner|appt=1 August, 1929<ref>Turner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/13.|D7604426}} f. ?.</ref>|ass=8 August, 1929<ref>Layton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/134.|D7604233}} f. ?.</ref>|end=11 August, 1931<ref>Turner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/13.|D7604426}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ernest John Spooner|nick=Ernest J. Spooner|appt=12 December, 1932|end=27 July, 1934}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ronald William Blacklock|nick=Ronald W. Blacklock|appt=27 July, 1934|end=27 July, 1936}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Irving Montgomery Palmer|nick=Irving M. Palmer|appt=27 July, 1936|end=16 September, 1938}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeDep>
  
 
==Assistant Directors==
 
==Assistant Directors==
<div name=fredbot:office4 otitle="Assistant Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Assistant Director of Operations Division}}
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<div name=fredbot:office4 otitle="Assistant Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=8 January, 1912<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 44.</ref>|precBy=New Appointment|end=30 April, 1913<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 23/44.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=8 January, 1912<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 44.</ref>|precBy=New Appointment|end=30 April, 1913<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 23/44.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert William Richmond|nick=Herbert W. Richmond|appt=1913{{CN}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert William Richmond|nick=Herbert W. Richmond|appt=30 April, 1913<ref>Richmond Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 205.</ref>|end=19 May, 1915<ref>Richmond Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 205.</ref>}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Dominick Burke|nick=Charles D. Burke|appt=1 April, 1922<ref>Burke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 138.</ref>|end=15 November, 1922<ref>Burke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 138.</ref>}}
 
</div name=fredbot:office4>
 
</div name=fredbot:office4>
  
 
==Second Assistant Directors==
 
==Second Assistant Directors==
<div name=fredbot:office5 otitle="Second Assistant Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Second Assistant Director of Operations Division}}
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<div name=fredbot:office5 otitle="Second Assistant Director of Operations Division" nat="UK">
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=15 December, 1916<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 44.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=15 December, 1916<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 44.</ref>}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
 
 
</div name=fredbot:office5>
 
</div name=fredbot:office5>
  

Revision as of 20:37, 5 March 2018

History

According to Dr. Nicholas Black, seventy-five Royal Navy officers served in the division during the war.[1]

In a docket of 5 March, 1920, Captain Kelly proposed that the Home and Foreign Divisions be merged into two Sections of one Division under one Director. Captain Coode assented on 9 March, along with the Director of Training and Staff Duties, Captain Walter M. Ellerton, the following day. Rear-Admiral Osmond de B. Brock, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, approved the proposal on 15 March and proposed that the change take place on 1 April. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, the Chief of Naval Staff, gave his approval on 17 March.[2]

Directors of Operations Division

Director of Operation Division (D.O.D.):

Assistant Director of Operation Division (A.D.O.D.):

Deputy Director of Operation Division (D.D.O.D.):

D.O.D. (Home):

D.O.D. (Foreign):

D.O.D.:

Deputy Directors

Assistant Directors

Second Assistant Directors

Footnotes

  1. Black. British Naval Staff. p. 21.
  2. "Organisation of Operations Division." O.D. 116. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
  3. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
  4. Ballard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 65.
  5. Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
  6. Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
  7. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
  8. Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
  9. Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
  10. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
  11. Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23/44.
  12. Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
  13. Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
  14. Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
  15. Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
  16. Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
  17. Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/69. f. 76.
  18. Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
  19. Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
  20. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
  21. Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
  22. Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
  23. Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
  24. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
  25. Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
  26. "Office Acquaint. No. 71." 1 April, 1920. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
  27. Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
  28. Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
  29. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 123.
  30. The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 123.
  31. Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  32. Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  33. Beal Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/54. f. 62.
  34. Beal Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/54. f. 62.
  35. Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
  36. Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
  37. Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
  38. Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
  39. Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 44.
  40. Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23/44.
  41. Richmond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 205.
  42. Richmond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 205.
  43. Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  44. Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  45. Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 44.

Bibliography

  • Black, Nicholas (2009). The British Naval Staff in the First World War. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843834427.
  • Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division (1929). The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. Its Work and Development. B.R. 1845 (late C.B. 3013). Copy at The National Archives. ADM 234/434.