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the orders - Knight Grand Cross (GCVO), Knight Commander (KCVO), Commander (CVO), Lieutenant (LVO), Member (MVO); also Medal (RVM)



1914

 

all Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order

 

 

29003 - 11 DECEMBER 1914

  

The KING (is) pleased, on the occasion of the visit of His Majesty to his Army in the Field, to make the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Member of the Fourth Class.

Captain Francis Gerald St. John (Royal Navy), Commanding Naval Escort.

  


 

 

29024 - 29 DECEMBER 1914

 

..... promotions in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Member of the Fifth Class. (Dated 1st October, 1914.)

Carpenter Lieutenant John William Sheldrake, Royal Navy. On promotion from His Majesty's yacht "Victoria and Albert."

 

 

 

1915 

 

all Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order

 

 

29175 - 28 MAY 1915

  

..... appointment to the Royal Victorian Order

 

To be Member of the Fourth Class.

Captain Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot, Royal Navy, Captain Superintendent, Clyde District.

 


 

 

29232 - 16 JULY 1915

  

..... promotion in, and appointment to, the Royal Victorian Order

 

To be Knight Grand Cross.

Admiral the Honourable Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, K.C.B., C.V.O.

____

 

To be Member of the Fourth Class.

Lieutenant-Commander Douglas Faviell, Royal Navy.

 


 

 

29360 - 9 NOVEMBER 1915

 

..... on the occasion of the visit of His Majesty to his Army in the Field, to make the following appointments to the Royal Victorian Order

 

To be Members of the Fourth Class.

Commander Thomas Christopher Harry Williams, Royal Navy.

Commander Henry Gerard Laurence Oliphant, Royal Navy.

 


 

 

29423 - 31 DECEMBER 1915

 

..... promotions in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order

 

To be Members of the Fourth Class.

Staff Surgeon Robert Joseph Willan, R.N.V.R. (Dated 10th November, 1915.)

 

 

 

1916

 

all Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order

 

29629 - 20 JUNE 1916

.....promotions in the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Knight Grand Cross.

Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet.

 _____

 

To be Knight Commander.

Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, K.C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O., Commanding the Battle Cruiser Fleet.

 


 

 

29711 - 18 AUGUST 1916

 

..... on the occasion of the recent visit of His Majesty to his Army in  the Field, to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order:  

 

To be Knights Commander

Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, K.C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O.

 


 

 

29759 - 22 SEPTEMBER 1916

 

..... appointment to the Royal Victorian Order

 

To be Commander.

 Captain James Clement Ley, Royal Navy.

 

 

1917

 

all Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order

 

 

30145 - 22 JUNE 1917

..... promotion in and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Commander.

Rear Admiral Laurence Eliot Power, C.B., M.V.O.

 


 

 

30156 - 29  JUNE 1917

 

..... on the occasion of His Majesty's recent visit to the Grand Fleet, to make the following promotions in and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Knights Grand Cross.

Admiral Sir David Beatty, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O.

Admiral Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton, K.C.B., C.V.O.

 _____

 

To be Knights Commander.

Rear-Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, K.C.B., M.V.O.

Rear-Admiral Osmond De Beauvoir Brock, C.B., C.M.G.

_____ 

 

To be Commanders.

Commodore the Honourable Hubert George Brand, M.V.O., Royal Navy.

Commodore James Rose Price Hawksley, C.B., Royal Navy.

 

 


 

 

30451 - 28 DECEMBER 1917

  

..... promotions in and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Members of the Fourth Class

Staff Surgeon Louis Greig, Royal Navy. (Dated 22nd December, 1917)

 

 

 

1918

 

all Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order

 

 

30613 - 5 APRIL 1918

 

..... promotion in and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

 

To be Commander.

Vice-Admiral Roger John Brownlow Keyes, C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., D.S.O.

 _____

 

To be Members of the Fourth Class.

Commander Edmond Alan Berners Stanley, Royal Navy.

Captain Walter Cleland Scott.

 


 

 

30868 - 27 AUGUST 1918

 

..... on the occasion of His Majesty's recent visit to His Army in the Field, to make the following appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

(including)

 

To be Member of the Fourth Class.

Commander Reginald St. Pierre Parry, Royal Navy.

 


 

 

31071 - 17 DECEMBER 1918

 

on the occasion of His Majesty's recent visit to His Army in the Field, to make the following promotions in, and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

(including)

 

To be Knights Commander.

Vice-Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O.

 

_____

To be Members of the Fourth Class.

Commander Bertram Home Ramsay, Royal Navy.

Commander Sidney Beckwith Mainguy, Royal Navy.

Lieutenant Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, D.S.C., Royal Navy.

 


 

 

31099 - 31 DECEMBER 1918

 

  ..... promotions in and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order:

(including)

 

To be Knights Grand Cross.

Commander Sir Charles Leopold Cust, Bart., K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E., Royal Navy.

_____

 

To be Members of the Fourth Class.

Captain Wilfrid Tomkinson, C.B., Royal Navy.

Lieutenant-Commander Charles Granville Naylor, Royal Navy. 

 

 

 

 

1919

 

all Chancery of the Royal Victorian Order

 

 

31379 - 30 MAY 1919

 

.... on the occasion of His Majesty's Birthday, to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order:

(including)

 

To be Knights Commander.

Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson, K.C.M.G. (Dated 24th April. 1919.)

Captain Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett. C.M.G., C.V.O., R.N.


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