Layton who lately" served fy Chint waters as Chief of Staff (o Sir Frederic Dreyer will be glad to learn of this promotion to Rear-Admiral as from January 24, in succession 19 Beer-Admiral Douglas B. Lo Motte, placed on the retired list t his own Fequest. Rear-Admiral Layton since May last has been in command it Portsmouth Barracks. He is an old Britannia officer and won the in the War. He has azo born Deput Director of Submerines at the Admiralty, Rear-Ad) tral Lo Mottee also a naval "China Hend" for, in 1926-28, he commsnéed the. cruisers Despatch and Vindietive on the China station. During the War he was navigator of the Princess Royal up to July 1918 and among. his post-war appointments was that of Senior Naval Officer in the Danube in 1923+ 25. He was Chief of Star at the Note in 1020-31. Another former staff officer in China, in Commander Knox, of the R. N. College Greenwich, "has been appointed to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief fat Plymouth, Commander Knox was staff officer, (operations) to Sit Arthur Waistell in 1929-3),
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