Operations Division (Royal Navy)
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Contents
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.):
- Captain George A. Ballard, 8 January, 1912[3] – 1 May, 1914[4]
- Rear-Admiral Arthur C. Leveson, 1 May, 1914[5] – 16 January, 1915[6]
- Rear-Admiral Thomas Jackson, 17 January, 1915[7][8] – 11 June, 1917[9]
- Rear-Admiral George P. W. Hope, 11 June, 1917[10] – 9 January, 1918[11]
Assistant Director of Operation Division (A.D.O.D.):
- Captain Charles P. R. Coode, 11 June, 1917[12] – 18 January, 1918[13]
D.O.D. (Home):
- Captain A. Dudley P. R. Pound, 12 January, 1918[14] – 15 July, 1919[15]
- Captain John D. Kelly, 15 July, 1919[16][17] – 1 April, 1920[18]
D.O.D. (Foreign):
- Captain Charles P. R. Coode, 18 January, 1918[19][20] – 31 March, 1920[21]
D.O.D.:
- Rear-Admiral John D. Kelly, 1 April, 1920[22][23] – 15 February, 1922[24]
- Captain Henry W. Parker, 1 February, 1922[25]
- Captain Wilfred Tomkinson, 21 November, 1923[26]
Deputy Directors
- Captain Charles D. Burke, 1 March, 1921[27] – 31 March, 1922[28]
- Captain Alister F. Beal, 2 September, 1921[29] – 12 July, 1923[30]
- Captain Geoffrey Layton, 8 August, 1927[31] – 8 August, 1929[32]
- Captain Robert R. Turner, 1 August, 1929[33] – 11 August, 1931[34]
Assistant Directors
- Captain George P. W. Hope, 8 January, 1912[35] – 30 April, 1913[36]
- Captain Herbert W. Richmond, 30 April, 1913[37] – 19 May, 1915[38]
- Captain Charles D. Burke, 1 April, 1922[39] – 15 November, 1922[40]
Second Assistant Directors
- Captain George P. W. Hope, 15 December, 1916[41]
Footnotes
- ↑ Black. British Naval Staff. p. 21.
- ↑ "Organisation of Operations Division." O.D. 116. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
- ↑ Ballard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 65.
- ↑ Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
- ↑ Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 496.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 121.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23/44.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
- ↑ Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
- ↑ Coode Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/98. f. 105.
- ↑ "Office Acquaint. No. 71." 1 April, 1920. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 166.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 123.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 123.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Beal Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/54. f. 62.
- ↑ Beal Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/54. f. 62.
- ↑ Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
- ↑ Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
- ↑ Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
- ↑ Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 44.
- ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23/44.
- ↑ Richmond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 205.
- ↑ Richmond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 205.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
- ↑ 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.
