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Admirals of the British Navy

VI VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN MICHAEL de ROBECK, K.C.B

Word Count: 385    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

"Britannia," and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1875. He became a Lieutenant on Sep

ys' Training Establishments. On December 1st, 1911, he became a Rear-Admiral. From April 8t

poli Peninsula. In his despatch published in the "London Gazette," July 6th, 1915, General Sir Ian Hamilton said, "Throughout the events I have chronicled, the Royal Navy has been father and mother to the Army. Not one of us realises how much he owes to Vice-Admiral de Robeck." Later in the year Sir Ian Hamilton wrote: "The sheet-anchor on which hung the whole of these elaborate schemes was the Navy. One tiny flaw in the mutual trust and

which took part in the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peni

1st, 1916, in recognition of the se

the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure (First Class)

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