the Admiralty 28 May 1942: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir William Whitworth, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir John Cunningham, Fourth Sea Lord Arthur Lyster, Fifth Sea Lord Henry Moore, Vice Chief of Naval Staff Edward Leigh Stuart King, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Trade) Rhoderick McGrigor, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons) George Henry Hall, Civil Lord The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Richard Pilkington, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty 7 December 1942: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir William Whitworth, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir John Cunningham, Fourth Sea Lord Sir Henry Moore, Vice Chief of Naval Staff John Edelsten, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (U-Boat Warfare and Trade) Rhoderick McGrigor, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons) George Henry Hall, Civil Lord The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Richard Pilkington, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty 14 January 1943: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir William Whitworth, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir John Cunningham, Fourth Sea Lord Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Henry Moore, Vice Chief of Naval Staff John Edelsten, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (U-Boat Warfare and Trade) Rhoderick McGrigor, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons) George Henry Hall, Civil Lord The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Richard Pilkington, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty 8 March 1943: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea Lord Sir William Whitworth, Second Sea Lord Sir Frederic Wake-Walker, Third Sea Lord Sir John Cunningham, Fourth Sea Lord Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Henry Moore, Vice Chief of Naval Staff John Edelsten, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (U-Boat Warfare and Trade) Wilfrid Patterson, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons) George Henry Hall, Civil Lord The Lord Bruntisfield, Parliamentary and Financial