Included: Captain Henry W. Grant: July 1917-January 1918 Captain Bernard St.G. Collard, January 1918-February 1920 Captain Arthur de K. L. May, January–September 1919 Captain Hubert H. Holland, September 1919-January 1920 Captain Sidney R. Bailey, February 1920-March 1921 Captain Henry G.E. Lane, April 1920-September 1921 Captain Charles D. Burke, March 1921-April 1922 Captain Alister F. Beal, September 1921-July 1923 Captain Wilfred Tomkinson, July–November 1923 Captain Ambrose M. Peck, November 1923-October 1925 Captain Frank F. Rose, October 1925-April 1926 Captain Francis M. Austin, April 1926-August 1927 Captain Geoffrey Layton, August 1927-August 1929 Captain Robert R. Turner, August 1929-August 1931 Captain Francis H.W. Goolden, August 1931-December 1932 Captain Ernest J. Spooner, December 1932-July 1934 Captain Ronald W. Blacklock, July 1934-July 1936 Captain Irving M. Palmer, July 1936-September 1938 Captain Cecil H.J. Harcourt, September 1938-September 1939 Deputy Director of Operations (Home) Captain Ralph A. B. Edwards, October 1939-February 1941 Captain John F. Stevens, February 1941-August 1942 Captain Wilfred J.C. Robertson, August 1942-December 1943 Captain Francis B. Lloyd: December 1943-March 1945 Captain Christopher T. Jellicoe: March 1945 – 1947 Deputy Director of Operations (Foreign) Included: Captain Gerald H. Warner, February–September 1940 Captain John Terry, September 1940-March 1941 Captain William W. Davis, March 1941-January 1942 Captain Hugh Dalrymple-Smith, January 1942-November 1943 Captain Ronald G. Mackay, November 1943-March 1946 Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell, March 1946-March 1948 Captain William H. Selby, March 1948-April 1950 Captain Ralph C. Medley, April 1950-April 1952 Captain John S.M. Richardson, April 1952-January 1954 Captain Peter Phipps, January 1954-March 1955 Captain John Plunkett-Cole: March 1955-January 1957 Captain N.F. Carrington, January 1957-February 1958 Captain Josef C. Bartosik, February 1958-April 1959 Captain Richard I. Peek, April 1959-December 1960 Deputy Director of Operations (Foreign and Trade) Captain J.A. Murray, December 1960-September 1961 Captain Roland F. Plugge, September 1961-November 1963 Assistant Directors of Operations Assistant Director of Operation Division (A.D.O.D.): Captain Charles P. R. Coode, 11 June 1917 – 18 January 1918 Second Assistant Directors Captain George P. W. Hope, 15 December 1916 Operations division sub staff sections A more detailed breakdown of the distribution of work allocated within the division to the various staff sections can be seen below as of 1917: References Attribution Primary source for this article is by Harley Simon, Lovell Tony, (2017), Operations Division (Royal Navy), dreadnoughtproject.org, http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org. Sources Archives, The National. "Records of Naval Staff Departments", discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives, 1912-1964. Black, Nicholas (2009). The British Naval Staff in the First World War.