Guy Royle

Admiral Sir Guy Charles Cecil Royle, (17 August 1885 – 4 January 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fifth Sea Lord and First Naval Member of the Royal Australian Navy.

Naval career Royle joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1900. He served in the First World War as Gunnery Officer on the battleship and was at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, then on the staff of Admiral Sir Charles Madden in the Grand Fleet.

Royle was appointed Assistant to the Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance in 1923 and became Naval attaché in Tokyo in 1924. a ceremonial position in the House of Lords, serving in that office from 1946 to 1953. He collapsed and died while putting out a heath fire near his home at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.