Alfred Winsloe
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Admiral Sir Alfred Leigh Winsloe KCB
Order of the Bath
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 CMG
Order of St Michael and St George
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 CVO
Royal Victorian Order
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 (1852–1931) was a Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station
China Station
The China Station was a historical formation of the British Royal Navy. It was formally the units and establishments responsible to the Commander-in-Chief, China....

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Naval career

Winsloe joined the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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. He was made Commander of the Cruiser Squadron in 1900 and then commanded HMS Ophir
SS Ophir
The SS Ophir was a British steel twin-screw ocean liner owned by the Orient Steamship Co. of London, which was employed on the company's London/Aden/Colombo/Australia service from the 1890s until 1915 when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and saw three years' service as an armed merchant...

 during the Royal Tour by the Prince
George V of the United Kingdom
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 and Princess of Wales
Mary of Teck
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 in 1901. He then became Commander of the Torpedo and Submarine Craft Flotillas in 1904. He went on to become Fourth Sea Lord
Fourth Sea Lord
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 in 1907 and Commander-in-Chief, China Station
China Station
The China Station was a historical formation of the British Royal Navy. It was formally the units and establishments responsible to the Commander-in-Chief, China....

in 1910. He retired in 1913.

He died in 1931.
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