List of Supply Officers in the Royal Navy who have reached flag rank

This is a list of Royal Naval Paymasters, Supply Officers and Logistics Officers who have reached flag rank, listed in order of seniority as a Rear-Admiral. It was customary for some officers to be promoted upon retirement, so some pre-war paymaster admirals may not have served in the rank on the active list.

Full names are given, where known, and honours and awards are listed in full, but without dates. Dates of birth are not given for the deceased. Appointments held as an admiral are given and a summary, where known, of appointments held since retirement from the Royal Navy.

At any one time, one admiral is appointed as head of the branch, either as Paymaster Director-General from 1918 to 1944, Director-General Supply and Secretariat Branch from 1944 to 1959, Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer (CNSSO) from 1959 to 2004 and, now, Chief Naval Logistics Officer (CNLO). For the last fifty years, this appointment has been an additional job. However, there was no admiral in the logistics branch from 2008–2010 and the post of CNLO was held by the senior Commodore in the branch.

Research continues but the list is now broadly complete in respect of admirals in the past fifty years. A short history of the Supply Officer complements this list.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

References

  1. http://www.finanandco.co.uk/June2004_f.htm#MILITARIA
  2. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P25857
  3. Imperial War Museum (31 May 2006). "Imperial War Museum Department of Printed Books Recommended Reading List (No. 364): The Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916" (PDF). archive.iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  4. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/woolley.htm#family
  5. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MARTIN9.shtml
  6. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/GYLES.shtml
  7. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BOYER.shtml
  8. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hms_drake.htm
  9. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/HOSKING.shtml
  10. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CULLINAN.shtml
  11. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/ALLEN3.shtml
  12. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/HORNIMAN.shtml
  13. http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-HTTP%253A%252F%252FCAS.AWM.GOV.AU%252FPROD%252FGL.ACCEPT_LOGIN%253FSCREEN_NAME%253DCAS_SEARCH_PKG.PR_SEARCH_BY_LINK%2526SCREEN_PARMS%253DACID%257EPS_QUERY_TYPE%253DACCNUM%257EPS_QUERY%253D305336%257EPS_REFERRER%253DOAI%253AAWM%253A257428%252F903150%2526SCREEN_TYPE%253DBOTTOM
  14. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10409/10409.txt
  15. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/HOLMES.shtml
  16. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/STRICKLAND1.shtml
  17. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=as&grp=1004%3BAdmirals&lDate=&LinkID=mp56343
  18. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/LAMBERT2.shtml
  19. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CULL.shtml
  20. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WRIGHT.shtml
  21. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BANKART.shtml
  22. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MCBRIDE.shtml
  23. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/HIGHTON.html
  24. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BOUTWOOD.shtml
  25. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BRAINE.shtml
  26. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/PAFFARD.html
  27. Entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  28. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/DENNING.shtml
  29. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/OWEN3.html
  30. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/LYDDON.shtml
  31. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BROCKMAN1.shtml
  32. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WHEEN.html
  33. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/FARNHILL.shtml
  34. http://www.hmshood.com/crew/biography/evanstk_bio.htm
  35. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/TRYTHALL.shtml
  36. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/DUNLOP.shtml
  37. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/5072285/Rear-Admiral-Colin-Dunlop.html
  38. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6010766.ece
  39. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/5837060/Rear-Admiral-James-Harkness.html
  40. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7142569.ece
  41. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/ASH1.shtml
  42. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2427971,00.html
  43. http://www.thecnj.com/camden/101906/obit101906_01.html?headline=Hospital_chief%E2%80%99s_naval_style
  44. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2101205/Rear-Admiral-John-Walters.html
  45. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/06/db0601.xml
  46. http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/news/features/chatham/dockers.shtml
  47. http://www.sailing.org/makingwaves/2004/178_050104.asp#2
  48. http://www.rumration.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/viewtopic/t=149.html
  49. http://www.commissionaportrait.com/media_viewer.asp?id=57&all=true
  50. http://www.rics.org/AboutRICS/RICSProfessionalRegulationandConsumerProtection/RICSregulatoryreform/It%20is%20time%20for%20change.html
  51. http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.building.co.uk/Pictures/small/l/h/n/CE-PHOTO.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.building.co.uk/issue.asp%3Fissuecode%3D12311&h=96&w=70&sz=2&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=NH0O4vPeJs_sjM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=59&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dadmiral%2Bpeter%2Bdunt%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DRNWH,RNWH:2005-14,RNWH:en%26sa%3DN
  52. http://www.building.co.uk/qs/no-more-messing-about-in-boats/3062964.article
  53. http://www.nlb.org.uk/news/PR2006/PR4_2006.htm
  54. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-kimmons-cb/13/362/b61
  55. http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server?show=ConMediaFile.22008&outputFormat=print
  56. http://admin.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/ConMediaFile.21977
  57. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:RqbzXaYfq-0J:www.boa.ac.uk/shared/download.aspx%3Ff%3Dsdrz6bwrz4dv26hwggjcbthxsguznbtrs4dw2mywtgfcbkuxvzlcbuersjub6byxw4dw26hwhdjz6btrtddwntsrsgjwnbrr7ddw6ga+rear+admiral+%22mike+kimmons%22&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg5W-2SdfVz2bA-GE776OnjoBYs5mYSjjZju1F34p56VwjkQkPHfgvsGH-iJwUHlImgLEiyx4N-aMF0srltSkiYhpmkuu4CHHabAH6HW1oqEr7SfdEgOhwoBan6y39xElB_CN0x&sig=AHIEtbQiPeqhdBp4tF4v2jYaNnMIq7mLIQ
  58. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/hands-off-our-base/It39s-a-hero39s-honour-for.3384241.jp
  59. http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/establishments/hmnb-portsmouth/commodore-david-steel-royal-navy

Bibliography

Sources and acknowledgements:

  1. The Navy List - 1918 to date
  2. The Pusser and His Men by Ben Warlow (Ministry of Defence (DFSD), 1984) - a short history of the Supply and Secretariat Branch of the Royal Navy
  3. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives online (King's College, London). It is particularly helpful in giving a brief outline of the earlier careers of some of the officers and a link is offered to readers
  4. Who's Who 1998
  5. "Notes on the Paymaster Branch" by Lt John H Beattie RN
  6. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP) - online version accessible free with a UK Public Library ticket
  7. Admiral Sir Brian Brown (personal correspondence)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.