ADMIRAL FISHER
REACHES ACZ LIMIT AND RETIRES.
[pi:E'> ASSOCIATION. - COPYtJGKI. (Received 26. *. 15 a.in.) London. Jan. 25. > Admiral Sir John A. Fisher has > reached his seventieth birthday and now retires. „ [Admiral Sir John Arbuthnots Fisher, G.C.8.. who is now retir-; ing from the Navy, has had a long and distinguished career. He entered the Navy in 1*54. was made Lieutenant in IfJGO, and Rear-Ad-miral ill IblN). He served in the Crimean war in 1855 : the China war in 1*59-s»>; the Egyptian war in I**2. He was in command of the Inflexible. Alexandria. I""2; Director of Naval Ordnance. 155691 ; Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard I >9l : Controller of tl.e Navy ; Lord of the Admiralty G 92-97 ; Commander-in Chiet on the North American ar.d West indies Station 1*97-09; Delegate to th»‘ pe?.-''' Conference
The Hague H 99 ; (’ommander-iu-Chief of the Mediterranean station 1&99-1902 : Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty 1902-3 ; Command* r-in Chief, Portsmouth 1903 4 : and 1 int Sea Lord of Admiralty IIMH-5. Admiral Fisher received ! U Ordtr of Merit in 1905. ami the Grand (Jordon of the Legion of Honour in 1906. He is also the Principal Naval A.!).<’. to His Majesty the K ing. j
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 37, 26 January 1911, Page 1
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