Naval Attaché (Royal Navy)

Naval Attachés to Maritime Countries

Dates of appointment given:

• Vice-Admiral Alfred P. Ryder, February, 1873
• Captain Henry C. Kane, 8 January, 1883
• Captain Sir William C. H. Domville, Bart., 18 January, 1887 – 12 February, 1891
• Captain William H. May, 1 January, 1891
• Captain George Le C. Egerton, 1 June, 1893
• Captain Reginald N. Custance, 1 September, 1893 – 21 February, 1895
• Captain Henry M. T. Tudor, 6 November, 1895
• Captain Lewis E. Wintz, 22 February, 1895
• Captain Alfred W. Paget, 26 October, 1896
• Captain Henry B. Jackson, 1 November, 1897
• Captain Lewis Bayly, 15 July, 1900 – 10 July, 1902
• Captain Arthur W. Ewart, 9 October, 1900 – 16 June, 1903

European States

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain William H. May, 10 November, 1890 – 1 June, 1893

Paris

Dates of appointment given:

• Rear-Admiral Alfred P. Ryder, 1869 – c. 1872
• Captain Henry B. Jackson, before January, 1899^{[Citation needed]}
• Captain Charles L. Ottley, after April, 1901 – 24 June, 1904  (transferred in from Tokyo at some point)
• Captain Frederick R. W. Morgan, 24 June, 1904 – 30 June, 1907
• Captain Edward H. F. Heaton-Ellis, 30 June, 1907
• Captain W. A. Howard Kelly, 16 February, 1911 – 16 March, 1914
• Captain Michael H. Hodges, 16 March, 1914 – 9 September, 1915
• Acting Captain Fitzmaurice Acton, 9 September, 1915
• Acting Commander Sidney B. Mainguy, 1 October, 1917
• Captain The Hon. Alexander R. M. Ramsay, 15 July, 1919
• Captain James M. Pipon, 15 July, 1925 – 20 October, 1928
• Captain Guy W. Hallifax, 15 October, 1928 – 15 October, 1931

Copenhagen

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain The Hon. Bertram T. C. O. Freeman Mitford, 15 September, 1919 – 16 December, 1920

Madrid

Dates of appointment given:

• Acting Captain John Harvey, 20 January, 1918 – 30 December, 1920

Berlin

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Reginald A. Allenby, 16 June, 1903 – 9 February, 1906
• Captain Philip W. Dumas, 9 February, 1906
• Captain Herbert L. Heath, 1 August, 1908 – 9 August, 1910
• Captain Hugh D. R. Watson, 9 August, 1910 – 11 November, 1913
• Captain Wilfred Henderson, 15 October, 1913 – 20 August, 1914
• Commander Geoffrey S. F. Nash, 15 February, 1926 – 14 April, 1929

Washington, D.C.

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Reginald N. Custance, 1 September, 1893 – 26 February, 1895
• Captain Lewis Bayly, 15 July, 1900 – 10 July, 1902
• Captain Dudley R. S. De Chair, 10 September, 1902 – 31 August, 1904
• Captain Frank E. C. Ryan, 1 September, 1905 – 12 September, 1907
• Captain The Hon. Horace L. A. Hood, 16 August, 1907 – 11 November, 1908
• Captain Charles F. Sowerby, 11 November, 1908 – 21 June, 1912
• Captain Heathcoat S. Grant, 1 June, 1912 – 13 June, 1914
• Captain Guy R. A. Gaunt, 1 June, 1914 – 22 March, 1917
• Acting Captain Arthur L. Snagge, 21 May, 1918 – 1 October, 1919
• Captain Geoffrey Blake, 1 October, 1919 – March, 1921
• Captain Sidney R. Bailey, 1921 – 13 November, 1922
• Captain Francis W. Loftus Tottenham, October, 1922 – October, 1925
• Captain The Hon. Arthur Stopford, October, 1925 – 7 May, 1928
• Captain James S. M. Ritchie, March, 1928 – March, 1931
• Captain Patrick Macnamara, March, 1931 – May, 1933
• Captain Alan R. Dewar, 6 May, 1933 – 19 June, 1936
• Captain Frederic C. Bradley, 19 June, 1935 – June, 1938
• Captain Leicester C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe, June, 1938
• Rear-Admiral Herbert Pott, June, 1940 – September, 1944

Gerald Charles Langley may also have held this post at some point.^{[Fact Check]}

Assistant Naval Attaché

• Commander (emergency) Hugh C. Arnold-Forster, 6 September, 1918 – 16 January, 1920  (medically unfit at end)
• Commander Edward O. Broadley, 9 April, 1920 – 9 April, 1922
• Captain Arthur W. Clarke, 20 July, 1940 – 1 August, 1941

St. Petersburg and Rome

• Captain Somerset A. G. Calthorpe, 19 March, 1902 – 1 November, 1905

Rome

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Mark E. F. Kerr, 24 June, 1903 – 1 January, 1905
• Captain Roger J. B. Keyes, 1 January, 1905 – 1 January, 1908
• Captain Adolphus H. Williamson, 1 January, 1908 – 20 June, 1910
• Captain Arthur C. Stewart, 1 June, 1910 – 24 June, 1913
• Captain William H. D. Boyle, 24 June, 1913 – 27 September, 1915
• Acting Captain, retired Dennis A. H. Larking, 8 November, 1915 – 16 August, 1919
• Commander Neston W. Diggle, 1 July, 1919 – 20 July, 1922
• Commander Richard T. Down, 12 June, 1922 – February, 1926
• Captain Richard H. L. Bevan, 28 April, 1928 – 30 April, 1931

Assistant Naval Attaché

• Lieutenant Norman B. F. Peploe, 1 June, 1920 – 5 February, 1922  (drowned at Rapallo)

St. Petersburg/Petrograd

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain The Hon. Victor A. Stanley, 1 November, 1905 – November, 1908
• Captain Aubrey C. H. Smith, 7 November, 1908 – 30 April, 1912
• Commander Harold G. Grenfell, 1 April, 1912 – October, 1917
• Acting Captain Francis A. N. Cromie, 10 January, 1918 – 31 August, 1918  (temporary, killed by Bolshevik soldiers while in post)

Stockholm

• Rear-Admiral Montagu W. W. P. Consett, 27 July, 1912

Tokyo

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Charles L. Ottley, July, 1899 – after April, 1901  (transferred to Paris at some point)
• Captain Thomas Jackson, 1 January, 1906 – 1 May, 1906
• Commander Charles J. T. Dormer, 1 May, 1906 – 1908
• Captain Charles H. Dundas, 1 March, 1908 – 16 September, 1910
• Captain Douglas E. R. Brownrigg, 3 September, 1910 – 9 October, 1912
• Captain The Hon. Hubert G. Brand, 9 October, 1912 – 1 December, 1914
• Captain Edward H. Rymer, 1 December, 1914 – 11 February, 1918
• Acting Captain Fitzmaurice Acton, October, 1917
• Rear-Admiral James C. Ley, 25 November, 1918 – 31 March, 1920
• Captain John P. R. Marriott, 31 March, 1920
• Captain Ragnar M. Colvin, 10 March, 1922 – 10 April, 1924  (end year not entirely legible)
• Captain Montague G. B. Legge, 20 February, 1930 – January, 1933
• Captain Henry B. Rawlings, 1935 – 1938
• Captain Desmond N. C. Tufnell, 31 December, 1938 – 1941
• Rear-Admiral Hector Boyes, 21 May, 1941

The Hague

Dates of appointment given:

• Rear-Admiral Richard P. F. Purefoy, 15 February, 1916 – 16 February, 1918
• Acting Captain Henry C. R. Brocklebank, 30 January, 1918 – 31 August, 1919
• Gerald C. Dickens, 8 February, 1940 – 16 May, 1940
• Vice-Admiral Gerald C. Dickens, 8 February, 1940 – 16 May, 1940  (vice "Schofield", whomever that is)

Vienna

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain John R. Segrave, 1 January, 1914 – August, 1914

Norway, Sweden and Denmark

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain James W. Murray, 8 December, 1920 – 1 December, 1921
• Captain Hector Boyes, 25 August, 1939 – 10 May, 1940

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain James W. Murray, 1 December, 1921 – 27 February, 1923

Athens

Dates of appointment given:

• Commander William F. Sells, 26 June, 1915 – 28 June, 1917
• Acting Commander Gerald Talbot, 23 August, 1917
• Captain Herbert A. Packer, ? – 6 July, 1939
• Captain George E. M. O'Donnell, 6 July, 1939 – 21 August, 1939

Angora

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain George E. M. O'Donnell, 21 August, 1939 – 1941

South America

Dates of appointment given:

• Acting Captain Edward L. D. Boyle, 4 December, 1914 – 15 June, 1919
• Captain James S. C. Salmond, 26 February, 1925 – 12 August, 1927
• Captain St. Aubyn B. Wake, 12 August, 1927 – August, 1930
• Captain Edward de F. Renouf, 15 August, 1930 – 9 December, 1933

Buenos Aires

Dates of appointment given:

• Commander Charles L. Backhouse, 10 April, 1919
• Captain Herbert A. Forster, 29 July, 1942

Rio de Janeiro

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Donal S. McGrath, 7 May, 1940 – 5 May, 1941

Assistant Naval Attaché

• Commander Donal S. McGrath, 23 August, 1939 – 7 May, 1940