SIR JOHN JELLICOE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 4

SIR JOHN JELLICOE.

Vice-Admiral Sir John Rushworth' Jellicoe, wlio has just been appointed to be Admiral in charge of the Home Fleets, and supreme commander of the British naval forces in the No>'fcii Sea, is 65 years of age, -ind lias bteM second Sea Lord of tie AdinnaUy since 1912. He was educated at. Eottingdean, and in the forty-two years since he first entered the lias seen much varied service. He served in the Egyptian War m 1882, and was commander of the Victoria when she was sunk after collision with the Camperdown in the Mediterranean in 1893. During the Boxer rising he served in China and commanded the Naval (Brigade dispatched to the relief of the Peking Legations in 1900. At this time he also acted as Chief of Staff to Yice-Admiral Sir E. Seymour. Returning to Britain. he was Director of Naval Ordinance from 1905 to 1907. In the latter year he was made a Rear-Admiral and appointed to the Atlantic Fleet. Next year he became a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Controller of the Navy. In 1910 came appointment to the command of the Atlantic Fleet, and in 1911 of the Second Squadron of the Home Fleet. Sir John Jcliicoe was made a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1911. haying previously been appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1907. Curiously enough, it is poinited out, among his many decoratioins, he possesses. one bestowed by the German Emperor, the Order of the Red Fagle, conferred for services in China.