RADM E. R .G .R. Evans, CB, RN, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding His Majesty’s Australian Squadron. Evans was a charismatic officer who had served with CAPT Robert Falcon Scott, RN, in his Antarctic expedition of 1912, and later commanded HMS BROKE, (destroyer), during WWI. While in command of this destroyer, he was involved in a night action with German destroyers, on 21 April 1917, in which BROKE rammed and sank the German destroyer G42, thus earning Evans the popular title, ‘Evans of the BROKE’. Later in life he was knighted, and took the title Lord Mountevans, which referred to his Antarctic service.