Talk:List of Royal Navy flag officers who died during the First World War

Issues
There are some errors and inconsistencies here. &mdash;Simon Harley (Talk). 18:05, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Warrender was placed on the retired list on 6 December 1916 so he didn't die "while serving during the First World War". I think I'll have to write to the CWGC about this one.
 * "The CWGC list these officers at their full, pre-retirement rank, even where they died whilst serving in the lower RNR rank." Grogan and Henderson both retired as Captains and were advanced to Rear-Admiral on the Retired List.
 * Given how specific the Navy was about the definition of "Flag Officer", it seems stretching things to the point of WP:OR to count Engineer Rear-Admirals as Flag Officers. The exact same definition, confining "Flag Officer" and "Flag Rank" to Rear-Admiral, Vice-Admiral, Admiral and Admiral of the Fleet, can be found in the 1943 King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, Vol. I, p. 66.
 * Herbert Lyon served as a Captain RNR from 1914 and as a Commodore Second Class RNR from 1916. Frank Finnis was a Commodore, Second Class RNR from 1917.


 * Hi, nice to have a topic expert drop by! Not sure we can do anything about Warrender until the CWGC do. I've removed "pre-retirement", which leaves the slightly awkward "full rank" phrase but I'm not sure what would be better. I wasn't aware of the particular way in which the RN defines flag officers; do you think changing the article to "List of Royal Navy admirals who..." would be an improvement? If you've got sources for Lyon and Finnis I'd be happy to change the information there, or feel free to do it yourself. Thanks again for having a look at this! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:58, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, did you have any more input on this? Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:36, 17 July 2023 (UTC)