Admiral Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore GCB

Order of the Bath

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Order of St Michael and St George

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 MVO

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 (23 December 1864 – 8 November 1940) was a Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

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Naval career

Born the son of Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore

Augustus Phillimore

Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore KCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.-Naval career:...

 and educated at Westminster School

Westminster School

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, Phillimore joined the Royal Navy

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 in 1878. He took part in the response to the Boxer Rebellion

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 in 1900. He was given command of HMS Mohawk

HMS Mohawk (1886)

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 in 1903 and then led the Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

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 Machine Guns in Somaliland

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 the next year. He was then given command of HMS Juno

HMS Juno (1895)

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 in 1907, HMS Adoukir in 1909 and the battlecruiser

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 HMS Inflexible

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 in 1911.

He served in World War I

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 as Commander of the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron and then as Principal Beach Master for the landings at Cape Helles

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 in the Dardanelles

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 in April 1915. He went on to be liaison officer to the Imperial Russian Headquarters in 1915 and Commander of the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet in 1916. He was then made Admiral commanding the Aircraft of the Grand Fleet in 1917 and took part in Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

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 in November 1917.

After the War he was appointed President of the Postwar Questions Committee and then commanded the Reserve Fleet from 1920. He was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

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 in 1923. He was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King

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 from 1928 and retired in 1929.

He is buried at Shedfield

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 in Hampshire

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