Admiral Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley was a senior Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, GBE, KCB, CVO was a Royal Navy officer who served in both World Wars.
Admiral Sir John David Luce, was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as a submarine commander before taking part in the Dieppe Raid and becoming Chief Staff Officer to the Naval Forces for the Normandy landings. He also commanded a cruiser during the Korean War. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the mid-1960s and in that role resigned from the Royal Navy along with Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew in March 1966 in protest over the decision by the Labour Secretary of State for Defence, Denis Healey, to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme.
Admiral Sir James Robert Drummond was a Royal Navy officer who commanded several ships in the Black Sea Fleet during the Crimean War and who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from 1874 to 1877 before going on to be Fourth Naval Lord.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Usborne Willis was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War and saw action at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. He also served in the Second World War as Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic in which capacity he led actions against German and Japanese raiding ships. He continued his war service as Flag Officer commanding 3rd Battle Squadron and Second in command of the Eastern Fleet and then as Flag Officer commanding Force H, the force which covered North African Operations, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and then the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943. He spent the final years of the war as Commander-in-Chief, Levant, in which capacity he conducted naval operations in support of the Dodecanese Campaign, and then as Second Sea Lord, in which capacity he arranged the manpower for the campaign in the Pacific Ocean against the Imperial Japanese Navy. After the war he served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, in which role he was faced with unrest in Mandatory Palestine, before he became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.
Admiral Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey was a Royal Navy officer who served as the last Commander-in-Chief and first Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy from 1951 to 1955.
Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Hope Carlill was a Royal Navy admiral who served as the last British Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy from 1955 to 1958, when he was succeeded by Vice-Admiral Ram Dass Katari.
Admiral Sir James Andrew Fergusson, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.
Admiral Sir Sidney Julius Meyrick KCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.
Admiral Sir Irvine Gordon Glennie KCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.
Admiral Sir William Gerrard "Bill" Andrewes was a Royal Navy officer who served in World War I and World War II, commanded the British and Commonwealth Naval Forces and Task Force 95 during the Korean War, and went on to command of the America and West Indies Squadron and served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic.
Admiral Sir Rudolf Miles Burmester, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station.
Admiral Sir George Price Webley Hope, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to become Deputy First Sea Lord during World War I.
Admiral Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles, KCB, KCSI was a senior Royal Navy admiral who served as Deputy Naval Commander, South East Asia Command under Lord Mountbatten during the Second World War, as the Senior British Representative on the Tripartite Naval Commission and as the last Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy of the unified Royal Indian Navy.
Admiral Humphrey Wykeham Bowring CB DSO was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland.
Admiral Sir Charles Gordon Ramsey, KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland. He was later appointed aide de camp to King George VI.
Vice-Admiral James William Rivett-Carnac CB CBE DSC DL was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division.
Rear-Admiral Henry Edward Horan CB DSC was an Irish Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division.
