Admiral  Sir Percy (Fenwick George) Grant KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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Order of the Bath

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 (23 September 1867 - 8 September 1952) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff

Chief of Navy (Australia)

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Naval career

Grant saw service in the Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny

Revolta da Armada

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 in 1893. He went on to serve in World War I

World War I

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 initially as Flag Captain to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly

Lewis Bayly (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Lewis Bayly , KCB, KCMG, CVO, was a British admiral during the First World War.-Early life:Bayly was born at Woolwich on 28 September 1857. He was a greatgreatnephew of Admiral Keats. Bayly joined the Royal Navy in 1870. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War and against pirates in the Congo...

 in HMS Marlborough

HMS Marlborough (1912)

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 and then as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Cecil Burney

Cecil Burney

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet GCB GCMG was a British Royal Navy admiral.-Early life and service before flag rank:...

 who was then Second in Command of the Grand Fleet. In that capacity he saw his ship torpedo

Torpedo

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ed and crippled at the Battle of Jutland

Battle of Jutland

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 in 1916.

After the War he was appointed First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff

Chief of Navy (Australia)

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. In 1921 he went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station

Australia Station

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 and Advisor on defence to the Rt Hon Billy Hughes

Billy Hughes

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, Prime Minister of Australia

Prime Minister of Australia

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 at the Empire Conference in London

London

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 that same year. He was appointed Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard

HMNB Portsmouth

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 in 1922 and retired in 1928. He was recalled during World War II

World War II

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 to serve as Captain at the Port of Holyhead

Port of Holyhead

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