Operations Division (Royal Navy)
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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 the Operations Division
Director of the Operation Division (D.O.D.):
- Captain George A. Ballard, 8 January, 1912.[3]
- Rear-Admiral Arthur C. Leveson, 1 May, 1914.[4]
- Rear-Admiral Thomas Jackson, 17 January, 1915.[5]
- Rear-Admiral George P. W. Hope, 11 June, 1917.[6]
D.O.D. (Home):
- Captain A. Dudley P. R. Pound, 12 January, 1918.[7]
- Captain John D. Kelly, 15 July, 1919.[8]
D.O.D. (Foreign):
- Captain Charles P. R. Coode, 18 January, 1918.[9]
D.O.D.:
- Rear-Admiral John D. Kelly, 1 April, 1920.[10]
- Captain Henry W. Parker, 1 February, 1922.[11]
- Captain Wilfrid Tomkinson, 21 November, 1923.[12]
Assistant Directors
- Captain George P. W. Hope, 8 January, 1912.[13]
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. C.B. 3013. [Naval Staff.] p. 121.
- ↑ Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
- ↑ Naval Staff. p. 122.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ "Office Acquaint. No. 71." 1 April, 1920. The National Archives. ADM 116/1803.
- ↑ Naval Staff. p. 123.
- ↑ Naval Staff. p. 123.
- ↑ 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 No. 8 at The National Archives. ADM 234/434.
