SYMONDS-TAYLER, 27.10.1897
[Sir] Richard Victor Hereford
18.02.1971
[Worplesdon,
Surrey ?]
Son of late LtCol
Richard Herbert Tayler
Symonds Tayler,
Hereford.
Married (1925) Letitia
Mary, daughter of late
E.J. Gunner, IW; one
son, one daughter.
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.05.1917
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
15.08.1918
Lt.Cdr.
15.08.1926
Cdr.
30.06.1931
Capt.
31.12.1936
Cdre. 2nd cl.
01.02.1945
R.Adm.
02.01.1946
V.Adm.
20.03.1949 (retd 15.01.1952)
Adm. (retd)
27.01.1953
KBE 01.01.1951 New Year 51 [investiture 14.11.51]
HM's birthday 48 [investiture
CB 10.06.1948
01.03.49]
DS
16.08.1915 landing Gallipoli 25-26.04.15
C
Knight Commander of the Brazilian Order of Naval Merit
(inauguration president of Brazil 51)
Education: Hereford Cathedral School; RN
Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; RN
Staff College (1928); Imperial Defence
College (1938)
09.1910
joined RN as
cadet
1914 - 1918 served
European War
1914 - 1915 HMS
Agamemnon
24.10.1923 - (01.1 HMS Ganges
925) (training
establishment,
Shotley)
01.09.1925 - (07.1 HMS Revenge
927) (battleship)
(Atlantic Fleet)
20.05.1929 - (02.)1 British Naval
931 Mission to
Greece
24.08.1931 - (09.1 Plans Division,
932) Admiralty [HMS
President]
08.09.1933 - (02.1 Executive
936) Officer, HMS
Neptune
(cruiser) (Home
Fleet) [ship
24.02.1934
commissioned]
21.09.1936 - (02.1 Staff Officer
937) (Operations) to
Vice-Admiral
Commanding
Battle Cruiser
Squadron,
Mediterranean
[HMS Hood
(battlecruiser)]
(07.1937)
no appointment
listed
18.01.1938 - (10.1 imperial defence
938) course, Imperial
Defence
College
(London) [HMS
Presdient]
02.01.1939 - (08.) Commandin
193 g Officer,
9 HMS
Centurion
(target
vessel)
18.09.1939 - (04. on staff of
194 Commander
0) -in-Chief,
Western
Approaches
[HMS Drake
(RN base,
Devonport)]
1940
Commandin
g Officer,
HMS
Sussex
(cruiser)
02.12.1940 - (01. HMS
01.03.1941 -
14.07.1941 -
19.12.1942 -
01.02.1945 -
194 President
1) (for
miscellaneo
us services
at
Admiralty)
14.0 Admiralty
7.19 [HMS
41 President]
(08.) Director of
194 Training
2 and Staff
Duties,
Admiralty
[HMS
President]
10.1 Commandin
2.19 g Officer,
44 HMS
London
(cruiser)
(East
Indies)
194 Chief of
6 Staff to
Commander
-in-Chief
Portsmouth
[HMS
Victory]
12.03.1946 - 1947 Chief of Staff to
Naval
Representative
of British Chiefs
of Staff, Military
Staff
Committee,
United Nations
[HMS Saker]
1947 - 1948 Flag Officer
commanding
First Cruiser
Squadron
1949 - 1951 Commander-inChief America
and West Indies
Station [HMS
Superb]
Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd, 1952-1958.