Humphrey T. Walwyn

Vice-Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, (25 January 1879 – 29 December 1957) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served during the Second Boer War and First World War, and was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Navy from 1928 until his retirement in 1934. He then served as Governor of Newfoundland from 1936, throughout the Second World War, until 1946. Naval career Walwyn joined the Royal Navy in 1893, spending two years training in the training ship Britannia before joining the battleship . He served as acting sub-lieutenant from December 1898, and was confirmed in this rank on 7 February 1900, when he was posted to the pre-dreadnought battleship , serving in the Mediterranean Fleet. Later that year he was promoted to lieutenant on 15 December 1900, seeing action in the Second Boer War. In 1902 Walwyn was posted to , the Naval Gunnery School at Whale Island, Hampshire, to train as a Gunnery Lieutenant. Upon qualifying he was appointed to the school's staff for six months. From 1905 he served as Gunnery Lieutenant in the cruiser and the battleships and . He also spent 18 months on the staff of the Inspector of Target Practice at the Admiralty. He was promoted to the rank of commander on 1 July 1912. Walwyn was then appointed an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty, remaining in that post into the first year of the First World War, finally returning to sea duty in 1915 as Commander (Second-in-Command) of the new battleship . There he saw action in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, and was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Order on 15 September. He was promoted to captain on 31 December 1916, and in June 1917, was awarded the Order of St. Stanislas, 2nd Class (with Swords) by Russia.