APPENDIX A

The Board of Admiralty

January 1942 - May 1943


 

  Date of
Appointment
First Lord: Rt. Hon. Albert V. Alexander 12-5-40
First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff:
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. Dudley P. R. Pound 12-6-39
Deputy First Sea Lord:
  Admiral Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis 29-7-42
Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel:
  Vice-Admiral Sir William J. Whitworth 1-6-41
Third Sea Lord and Controller:
  Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Frederick Wake-Walker
1-3-39
22-5-42
Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport:
  Vice-Admiral Sir John H. D. Cunningham
Rear-Admiral F. H. Pegram
1-4-41
8-5-43
Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services:
  Rear-Admiral A. L. St. G. Lyster
(In abeyance from July 1942)
14-4-41
Chief of Naval Air Services:
  Admiral Sir Frederick C. Dreyer (Ret'd)
(Not a member of the board)
11-7-42
Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Equipment:
  Rear-Admiral D. W. Boyd 14-1-43
Vice-Chief of Naval Staff:
  Vice-Admiral Sir Henry R. Moore 21-10-41
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Trade):
  Vice-Admiral E. L. S. King
Rear-Admiral J. H. Edelsten
7-12-42
[In February 1943 title was changed from "Trade" to "U-boat Warfare and Trade']
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons):
  Rear-Admiral R. R. McGrigor
Rear-Admiral W. R. Patterson
9-1-41
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign):
  Rear-Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood
(Membership of the Board ceased when appointment was relinquished 8-4-42)
2-12-40

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  Date of
Appointment
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Home):
  Rear-Admiral A. J. Power
(Membership of the Board ceased when appointment was relinquished 28-5-42)
27-5-40
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary:
  Sir Victor Warrender 4-4-40
(Parliamentary Secretary only, as Lord Bruntisfield) from 9-2-42
Financial Secretary:
  Rt. Hon. G. H. Hall 9-2-42
Civil Lord:
  Captain A. U. M. Hudson
Captain R. A. Pilkington
15-7-39
5-3-42
Controller of Merchant Shipping and Repairs:
  Sir James Lithgow 1-2-40
Permanent Secretary:
  Sir Henry Vaughan Markham 5-12-40
Assistant Chiefs of Naval Staff, not members of the Board:
Foreign: Rear-Admiral H. B. Rawlings
Rear-Admiral R. M. Servaes
8-4-42
22-2-43
Home: Rear-Admiral E. J. P. Brind 28-5-42
Air: Rear-Admiral R. H. Portal 1-1-43

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