Guy Royle
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (Netherlands)Legion of Merit (United States) Order of Orange-Nassau |
CMG (17 August 1885 – 4 January 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fifth Sea Lord and First Naval Member of the Royal Australian Navy
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Royle joined the Royal Navy with a commission as a midshipman in 1900.[1]
He served in the
1st Battle Squadron, and as Flag Commander to the Admiral, Second in Command, Grand Fleet."[3]
Royle was appointed Assistant to the Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance in 1923 and became
Second World War, he returned briefly as Naval Secretary from September to November, 1939, then until 1941 was Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Air Service, when he became First Naval Member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board; he retired the service in 1946.[1][2]
Royle was knighted in 1941 and promoted admiral in 1942.[1]
In retirement he was appointed briefly as Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain and finally as Yeoman Usher (deputy) of the Black Rod,[4] a ceremonial position in the House of Lords, serving in that office from 1946 to 1953.[5] He collapsed and died while putting out a heath fire near his home at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.[6]
References
- ^ a b c Winston Churchill, ed. Martin Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939 – May 1940 (1993), p. 354
- ^ a b c d e Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- London Gazette, Issue 31461 (supplement), 15 July 1919, Page 9107
- ^ House of Lords Offices Hansard, 9 December 1953
- ^ Black Rod, 1361- Archived 9 December 2012 at archive.today at parliament.uk, retrieved 23 November 2010
- ^ Admiral Sir Guy Royle Flight International, 15 January 1954
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