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You are here: Home / Article topics / Publications / Naval Historical Review / Flag Officers Commanding Australian Fleet, 1913-1986

Flag Officers Commanding Australian Fleet, 1913-1986

A.N. Other · Sep 11, 1986 · Print This Page

Author
A.N. Other and NHSA Webmaster
Subjects
RAN operations
Tags
Flag Officers, Fleet Commander
RAN Ships
None noted.
Publication
September 1986 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved)
Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Patey, KCMG, KCVO, MVO 1913-1916
Rear-Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, KCB, MVO 1916-1917
Rear-Admiral Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, CB 1917-1918
Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, KCMG, CB, CMG 1918-1919
Rear-Admiral John Saumarez Dumaresq, CB.CVO.MVO 1919-1922
Rear-Admiral Albert Percy Addison, CB, CMG 1922-1924
Commodore Thomas Erskine Wardle, DSO 1924-1926
Rear-Admiral G.F. Hyde, CVO, CBE 1926-1929
Rear-Admiral E.R.G.R. Evans, CB, DSO 1929-1931
Commodore L.S. Holbrook, MVO 1931-1932
Rear-Admiral R.C. Dalglish 1932-1934
Rear-Admiral W.T.R. Ford, CB 1934-1936
Rear-Admiral R.H.O. Lane-Poole, CB, OBE 1936 -1938
Rear-Admiral W.N. Custance, CB 1938-1939
Commodore W.R. Patterson, CVO 1939-1939
Rear-Admiral J.G. Crace 1939-1942
Rear-Admiral V.A.C. Crutchley, VC, DSC 1942-1944
Commodore J.A. Collins, CB 1944-1944
Captain Alfred G. Nicholls, MVO 1944-1944
Rear-Admiral Harold B. Farncomb, CB, DSO, MVO 1944-1945
Commodore John A. Collins, CB (Rear-Admiral 1947) 1945-1946
Rear-Admiral Harold B. Farncomb, CB, DSO, MVO 1946-1949
Rear-Admiral John A.S. Eccles, CBE 1949 -1951
Rear-Admiral John W.M. Eaton, DSO, DSC 1951-1953
Rear-Admiral Roy R. Dowling, CBE, DSO 1953-1955
Rear-Admiral Henry M. Burrell, CBE 1955-1956
Rear-Admiral David M. Harries, CBE 1956-1958
Rear-Admiral Henry M. Burrell, CBE 1958-1959
Rear-Admiral Galfrey G. Gatacre, CB, DSO, DSC and Bar 1959-1959
Rear-Admiral Wilfred H. Harrington, CB, CBE, DSO 1959-1962
Rear-Admiral Alan W.R. McNicoll, CBE.GM 1962-1964
Rear-Admiral Otto H. Becher, CBE, DSO, DSC 1964-1965
Rear-Admiral Thomas K. Morrison, CB, CBE, DSC 1965-1966
Rear-Admiral Victor A. Smith, CBE, DSC 1966-1967
Rear-Admiral Richard I. Peek, QBE, DSC 1967-1968
Rear -Admiral Gordon J.B. Crabb, CBE, DSC 1968-1970
Rear-Admiral Hugh H. Stevenson, CBE 1970-1971
Rear-Admiral William J. Dovers, CBE, DSC 1971-1972
Rear-Admiral Hugh D. Stevenson, CBE 1972-1972
Rear-Admiral A.M. Synnot, CBE 1973-1974
Rear-Admiral D. Wells, CBE 1974-1975
Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Vernon Gladstone, AO, DSC and Bar 1975-1977
Rear-Admiral Neil Ewer McDonald, AO 1977-1978
Rear-Admiral Guido James Willis, AO 1978-1979
Rear-Admiral David Willoughby Leach, CBE, MVO 1979-1980
Rear-Admiral Peter Hogarth Doyle, AO, OBE 1980-1981
Rear-Admiral John Dixon Stevens 1981-1982
Rear-Admiral Michael William Hudson 1982-1983
Rear-Admiral R.H. Woolrych, AO, MBE 1983-1984
Rear-Admiral I.W. Knox, AO 1984-1986

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