Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. After training as a torpedo officer, he commanded two different cruisers and then three different batt
Sketch of Sturdee for Naval Officers of World War I
Battle of the Falkland Islands by William Lionel Wyllie. Scharnhorst rolls over and sinks while Gneisenau continues to fight
Sturdee on board HMS Hercules commanding 4th Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland
Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1918, by Glyn Philpot
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley was a Royal Navy officer. Staveley saw service as a minesweeper commander on coastal patrol during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation before c
Doveton Sturdee
…churchyard of St Peter's Church in nearby Frimley. His gravestone incorporates a cross made from the timbers of Nelson's ship, HMS Victory. His grandson William Staveley and grandson-in-law Edward Ashmore were also Admirals of the Fleet. Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Sturdee, his nephew…
Rear Admiral William Staveley c. late 1970s
The destroyer HMS Cavalier in which Staveley was serving when he observed the hydrogen bomb tests in the late 1950s