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Admiral Dare
[edit]World War I
[edit]- 7.11.1914 temp comm RNR Cdr
- HMS Idaho
- 9.3.1915 (retd list) to Vice-Adm
- In command, Milford Haven 1915, Rear-Admiral
- 4.6.17 CB
- CB 1917
- 1917 opened Trafalgar Institute for Seafarers (St Andrews Waterside Church Mission); speech praising RNR: "If the Grand Fleet did anything the "Daily Mail" would tell them all about it, but about his men, well, wait till after it was all over (applause)"
- 1917 member of Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 69th annual meeting in Taunton he donated local birds and birds' eggs
- 1914 death of brother; grandfather and father (both Charles Holcombe Dare of North Curry) named
- 1918 daughter Maud married Lt Cdr Yorke RNVR
- 19 Oct 1917 awarded Military CB as Vice Adm
- 3.9.1918 full Adm (retd list)