Vice-Admiral, Royal Navy 1 March 1907: Admiral, Royal Navy 1910: Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy 1910: Field Marshal, British Army 1919: Chief of the Royal Air Force (title not rank) Honorary military appointments 18 July 1900: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1 January 1901: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marine Forces 25 February 1901: Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King 29 November 1901: Honorary Colonel of the 4th County of London Yeomanry Regiment (King's Colonials) 21 December 1901: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers 12 November 1902: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 8 March 1912: Colonel-in-Chief of the 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles 8 March 1912: Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st (Canterbury) Regiment April 1917: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Flying Corps (Naval and Military Wings) Foreign honours Honorary foreign military appointments 1 February 1901: À la suite of the Imperial German Navy 26 January 1902: Colonel-in-Chief of the Rhenish Cuirassier Regiment "Count Geßler" No. 8 (Prussia) 24 May 1910: Admiral of the Royal Danish Navy Honorary Colonel of the Infantry Regiment "Zamora" No. 8 (Spain) 29 October 1918: Gensui of the Imperial Japanese Army 1923: Honorary Admiral of the Swedish Navy Honorary degrees and offices 8 June 1893: Royal Fellow of the Royal Society, installed 6 February 1902 1899: Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of the Cape of Good Hope 1901: Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of Sydney 1901: Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of Toronto 1901: Doctor of Civil Law (DCL), Queen's University, Ontario 1902: Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of Wales 1901: Chancellor of the University of Cape Town 1901–1912: Chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope 1902–1910: Chancellor of the University of Wales Arms As Duke of York, George's arms were the royal arms, with an inescutcheon of the arms of Saxony, all differenced with a label of three points argent, the centre point bearing an anchor azure. The anchor was removed from his coat of arms as the Prince of Wales. As King, he bore the royal arms. In 1917, he removed, by warrant, the Saxony inescutcheon from the arms of all male-line descendants of the Prince Consort domiciled in the United Kingdom (although the royal arms themselves had never borne the shield). Issue Ancestry See also Cultural depictions of George V Household of George V and Mary Interwar Britain List of covers of Time magazine (1920s), (1930s) Notes