Grand Fleet

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The Grand Fleet was the British Royal Navy's main naval fleet during the First World War.

Grand Fleet Flag officers at the fleet boxing championship, 3 August, 1916. Left to right: Lionel Halsey, Sir T. H. Martyn Jerram, Sir Cecil Burney, Herbert L. Heath, Hugh Evan-Thomas, William C. M. Nicholson, Sir Charles E. Madden, and Sir F. C. Doveton Sturdee.
The King and Queen of the Belgians on the Quarter Deck of the fleet flag ship Queen Elizabeth in July, 1918. Left to right: Sir William Goodenough, Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, Sir David Beatty, King Albert of Belgium, Sir John de Robeck, Elizabeth (Queen Consort of the Belgians), Sir Richard Phillimore, Rear-Admiral William C. M. Nicholson, and Vice-Admiral Osmond Brock.
Photo: Imperial War Museum.
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