User:Tony Holkham/sandbox

World War I

 * 7.11.1914 temp comm RNR Cdr
 * HMS Idaho
 * 9.3.1915 (retd list) to Vice-Adm
 * In command, Milford Haven 1915, Rear-Admiral
 * 4.6.17 CB
 * CB 1917
 * 1917 opened Trafalgar Institute for Seafarers (St Andrews Waterside Church Mission); speech praising RNR: "If the Grand Fleet did anything the "Daily Mail" would tell them all about it, but about his men, well, wait till after it was all over (applause)"
 * 1917 member of Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 69th annual meeting in Taunton he donated local birds and birds' eggs
 * 1914 death of brother; grandfather and father (both Charles Holcombe Dare of North Curry) named
 * 1918 daughter Maud married Lt Cdr Yorke RNVR
 * 19 Oct 1917 awarded Military CB as Vice Adm
 * 3.9.1918 full Adm (retd list)

After World War I

 * 1919 struck flag commanding Milford Haven, held since 1915; was retired (for 5 yrs) when war began in his 60th year; 1906-1909 Eastern Coastguard District; KCMG and CB for war work
 * 27.5.1919 KCMG
 * KCMG 12 June 1919; also present were David Beatty and Douglas Haig