Bertram Thesiger

Thesiger joined the Royal Navy in 1887.^[2] Promoted to commander he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1911 Coronation Honours.^[3]

He served in World War I as commanding officer of HMS Inconstant at the Battle of Jutland^[2] and was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1916.^[4] He became Admiral Superintendent Portsmouth Dockyard in 1925 and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1927; he retired with the rank of admiral in 1932.^[2]

He was recalled during the Second World War to be Convoy Commodore, with the rank of commodore, 2nd class Royal Naval Reserve from 1940 to 1942 and then to be Flag Officer in charge at Falmouth from 1942 to 1944.^[2] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1942 New Year Honours and also a Commander of the American Legion of Merit.^[5]

He became deputy lieutenant of Hampshire and lived at "Clerks" in Bramshott in Hampshire.^[6]

In 1921 he married Violet Brodrick Cloete (née Henley) in Malta.^[6]