Lord Sir Algernon Willis, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, Vice Chief of Naval Staff The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Richard Pilkington, Civil Lord James Thomas, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty 1 May 1945: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Andrew Cunningham, Bt, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir Algernon Willis, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Thomas Hope Troubridge, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, Vice Chief of Naval Staff The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Richard Pilkington, Civil Lord James Thomas, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty 29 May 1945: Commission Brendan Bracken, First Lord Sir Andrew Cunningham, Bt, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir Algernon Willis, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Thomas Hope Troubridge, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, Vice Chief of Naval Staff The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Richard Pilkington, Civil Lord James Thomas, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty 4 August 1945: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Andrew Cunningham, Bt, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir Algernon Willis, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Thomas Hope Troubridge, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, Vice Chief of Naval Staff John Dugdale, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Walter Edwards, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty 5 October 1945: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord The Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir Algernon Willis, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Thomas Hope Troubridge, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Rhoderick McGrigor, Vice Chief of Naval Staff John Dugdale, Parliamentary and Financial