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Frederick Field (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Laurence Field (18 April 1871 – 24 October 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in the Boxer Rebellion as commander of a raiding party and in the First World War as commanding officer of the Battleship HMS ''King George V'', flagship of Admiral Martyn Jerram at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet before serving as First Sea Lord during the early 1930s in which role dealt with the response to the Invergordon Mutiny in September 1931 and ensured the abandonment in 1932 of the 'ten year rule', an attempt by the treasury to control defence expenditure by requesting the Foreign Office to declare whether there was any risk of war during the next ten years.
==Early career==
Born the second son of Colonel Spencer Field, 6th Royal Warwickshire regiment and Catherine Field (née) Darrah, Field was educated privately before joining the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS ''Britannia'' in 1884.〔Heathcote, p. 74〕 He was posted as a midshipman to the armoured frigate HMS ''Minotaur'' in the Channel Squadron in November 1886.〔 He transferred to the armoured cruiser HMS ''Imperieuse'' on the China Station in March 1888 and to the corvette HMS ''Constance'' also on the China Station in early 1889.〔 Promoted to sub-lieutenant on 14 November 1890, he was posted to the battleship HMS ''Dreadnought'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1892.〔 Promoted again to lieutenant on 1 April 1893, he joined the corvette HMS ''Volage'' in the Training Squadron in October 1894 before attending the torpedo school HMS ''Vernon'' from November 1895.〔
After serving on the directing staff at the torpedo school HMS ''Defiance'' at Devonport, Field became torpedo officer in HMS ''Barfleur'' on the China Station in July 1898.〔 He was mentioned in dispatches for leading a small raiding party which landed at Tianjin in response to the Boxer Rebellion tasked with repairing damaged trains under heavy fire: he was wounded during the action.〔
Promoted to commander on 30 June 1902, Field was posted to the battleship HMS ''Albion'' on the China Station in August 1902 before rejoining the staff at HMS Vernon in 1904.〔 Promoted to captain on 31 December 1907, he became commanding officer of HMS Defiance, the torpedo school at Devonport.〔Heathcote, p. 75〕 He was given command of HMS ''Duncan'' as flag captain to Admiral Martyn Jerram, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1910 and then became superintendent of the Royal Navy signal schools in 1912.〔
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