Frederick Field (Royal Navy officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frederick Field (Royal Navy officer)

British Royal Navy officer

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1871

Place of Birth: Killarney, Munster, Ireland

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1945

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About 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.

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