Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard H U Noel GCB KCMG

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard H U Noel GCB KCMG
Title: Admiral of the Fleet Sir
First name:Gerard
Middle name(s):H U
Surname:Noel
Post-nominals:GCB KCMG
Year elected:1902
Last year on list:1916
MembershipNaval

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel, GCB, KCMG (5 March 1845 – 23 May 1918) was a Royal Navy officer.

As a junior officer he commanded a naval brigade which took part in the capture of Kumasi in February 1874 during the Second Anglo-Ashanti War.

Noel went on to be Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet: during this tour, following the murder of the British vice-consul in Heraklion and an attack on the Customs House there, Noel landed a force in Crete to court-martial the terrorists and generally restore order.

After that he became Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves and was given the additional responsibility of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet.

He then became Commander-in-Chief, China Station: at the time relations between the United Kingdom and Russia were strained as the United Kingdom expressed its considerable dissatisfaction in relation to Russian aggression at the start of the Russo-Japanese War. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.


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