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Admiral Sir Guy Charles Cecil Royle (17 August 1885 – 4 January 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fifth Sea Lord and First Naval Member of the Royal Australian Navy. ==Naval career== Royle joined the Royal Navy with a commission as a midshipman in 1900.〔Winston Churchill, ed. Martin Gilbert, ''The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940'' (1993), p. 354〕 He served in World War I as Gunnery Officer on the battleship and was at the Battle of Jutland in 1916,〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 then on the staff of Admiral Sir Charles Madden in the Grand Fleet.〔 By 1919 he had been promoted Commander and in July 1919 was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George "for valuable services as Gunnery officer of H. M. S. "Marlborough", 1st Battle Squadron, and as Flag Commander to the Admiral, Second in Command, Grand Fleet."〔''London Gazette'', Issue 31461 (supplement), 15 July 1919, (Page 9107 )〕 Royle was appointed Assistant to the Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance in 1923 and became Naval attaché in Tokyo in 1924.〔 He was given command of the cruiser in 1927, the shore establishment in 1930 and the aircraft carrier in 1933.〔 He went on to be Naval Secretary from 1934 and to 1937, when he was appointed Vice Admiral commanding the aircraft carriers, serving until 1939. In World War II, he returned briefly as Naval Secretary from September to November, 1939, then until 1941 was Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Air Service, when he became First Naval Member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board; he retired the service in 1946.〔〔 Royle was knighted in 1941 and promoted admiral in 1942.〔 In retirement he was appointed briefly as Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain and finally as Yeoman Usher (deputy) of the Black Rod,〔(House of Lords Offices ) Hansard, 9 December 1953〕 a ceremonial position in the House of Lords, serving in that office from 1946 to 1953.〔(Black Rod, 1361- ) at parliament.uk, accessed 23 November 2010〕 He collapsed and died while putting out a heath fire near his home at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.〔(Admiral Sir Guy Royle ) Flight International, 15 January 1954〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Royle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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