Syfret, 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) 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 8 March 1944: 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 Frank Pegram, Fourth Sea Lord Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, 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) 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 20 March 1944: 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 Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, 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) 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 11 December 1944: 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 Arthur Palliser, Fourth Sea Lord Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord Sir Edward Syfret, Vice Chief of Naval Staff Wilfrid Patterson, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons) 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 3 March 1945: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Andrew Cunningham, Bt, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Deputy First Sea