Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard KCB

Order of the Bath

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 CMG

Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....

 (1874–1960) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.

Naval career

Napier joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1888. He took part in the Benin Expedition to Nigeria

Nigeria

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 in 1897. He commanded HMS Boadicea

HMS Boadicea (1908)

HMS Boadicea was the lead ship of the Boadicea-class scout cruisers which served with the British Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard, being laid down in June 1907, launched on 14 May 1908 and commissioned in June 1909.-Design:...

 in 1911, HMS Blenheim

HMS Blenheim (1890)

HMS Blenheim was a Blake class first class protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1890–1926.Launched 5 July 1890, she displaced 9,150 tons and her steel hull measured 375 feet and 65 feet with turning 2 propellers giving a top speed of...

 in 1912 and both HMS Good Hope

HMS Good Hope (1901)

HMS Good Hope was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the British Royal Navy; she was originally planned to be named Africa, but was renamed before she was launched...

 and HMS Vulcan

HMS Vulcan (1889)

HMS Vulcan was a torpedo boat depot ship launched on 13th June 1889, converted to a training hulk. She was renamed HMS Defiance III in 1931 and used for training at Torpoint, Cornwall. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1955....

 in 1913.

He served in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 commanding HMS Hibernia

HMS Hibernia (1905)

HMS Hibernia was a King Edward VII-class predreadnought battleship of Britain's Royal Navy. Like all ships of the class she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely Ireland....

 and then HMS Highflyer

HMS Highflyer (1898)

HMS Highflyer was the lead ship of the Highflyer class cruiser which served with the Royal Navy. She was built at the yards of Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, being laid down in June 1897, launched on 4 June 1898 and commissioned on 7 December 1899.-Pre-1914:Like her sisters...

. After the War he was in charge of the Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

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 on the Danube and then commanded the battleship HMS Ajax

HMS Ajax (1912)

HMS Ajax was a King George V-class battleship , built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde...

 from 1920. He was appointed Director of Training and Staff Duties at the Admiralty

Admiralty

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 in 1921 Chief of the Submarine Service in 1925. He went on to be Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport

Fourth Sea Lord

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 in 1928 and Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station in 1930. He retired in 1932.

He lived at Stock

Stock, Essex

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 in Essex

Essex

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