Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
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Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, was a British naval officer.
Vice Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, 1918
Lieutenant Keyes (sitting) with other officers aboard the destroyer HMS Fame in 1900
Sketch of Keyes by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1918. Imperial War Museum
The battleship, HMS Royal Oak, the scene of an incident in which Keyes was thought by the Admiralty to have handled badly
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
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Admiral of the Fleet is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy, formally established in 1688. The five-star NATO rank code is OF-10, equivalent to a field marshal in the British Army or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Apart from honorary appointments, no new admirals of the fleet have been named since 1995, and no honorary appointments have been made since 2014.
King George VI and Admiral Bruce Fraser aboard HMS Duke of York at Scapa Flow, August 1943
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