Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher G.C.B, O.M.
First and Principal Naval Aide de Camp to H.M King Edward VII.
Copyright R.Fisher
John Fisher, The Admiral
1854 joins the British Navy aged 13
1859 serves in the Chinese opium wars
1860 commands his first ship
1902 appointed Second Sea Lord
1903 appointed Commander in Chief
1904 appointed First Sea Lord
1910 retires from the British Navy as a national hero and made Baron
1914 returns to First Sea Lord position by order of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty
1915 resigns in May in protest at the handling of the Gallipoli campaign
1920 dies in London, public navy funeral at Westminster Abbey
1907. The Lords of the Admiralty attending the Naval Review.
Fisher on the left of the photo.