Admiral of Fleet Dies in London After Several Week's Ilness: Burial Besides Earl Jellicoe London, Mar, 11.
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, aod here terday after several weeks Although for a time he appeared.
gaining strength and on the Food to recovery, he look a (urn for the worse several days ago and yesterday physicians announced that his condition had aroused grave anxiety. He passed away shortly after mid-ight this morning—United Press, Press Pay Tributes, rectal To me xc, eMALD
"From 1902 {0 1905 he commanded successively H.MS, Juno, Arrogant. Diana and Suffolk, his last command 1s Captain was Mf. battleship Queen which he. commissioned in 1008 for service with the Atlantic Fleet. On January 1, 1910, he was promoted 10 Mog rank, before he had reached the age, of 99, a lreumstance unique modern times, except in the case o Royal princes, and to find a precedent for-which it is necessary to go back to the eighteenth. century, when Keppel_at 37
London, Mar, 11, The morning newspapers devote columns of space to tributes to the Tate Earl Beatty and sketches of his career.
'They recall that when he was told of the death of Earl Jellicoe, he predicted that he himself would be. the next war leader to die. "I don' think tke call will be long," he said, Tam tired, very tired."
The death of Earl Beatty causes by-election in the Peckham division of Camberwell, where his son, Vis count Borodale (Conservative), who succeeds to the peerage, tad a ma-Jerlly of 772 votes in the General Germany's Regrets Berlin, Mar, 1. insteteted the German Naval Attache in London to express his regrets and that of the whole, German Navy" over the. death of "Admiral of the Fleet "Mariner" writing in the *North-China Datiy News" on, January fave an tnlimate pen picture of the Earoor of" Admiral Bently, and. 29 Soreriptive was i of the datingulshed fallers life and achievements that itis reprinted herewith en a Ailing logy of one of Britain's greatest 'David Beatty was torn on January 7 abu, He Joined. the navy' aa. 8 Nival Cadet on January 15, 1884, one Gay short of his thirteenth, bisthdey MIT name appeared In the Navy Hsi for the fest Ume in 100, twellt som the. bottom ofthe list On May 15, 1606, ho was promoted to midshipman trid aller a Couple of years traning INS. Alexandra rose othe rane Asting. SubsLieutenant. 'A year inter "he joined the Royal" Nova Ealege'at Greenwich ast the ferlen of courtes equiced (o qualify for the rane st lieutenant, Which Me Shige "navigation, gunnery." torpedo an pilotages Tivo" years. and. three months later he wes promoted 0 the Fane of lieutenant on Jenny 19,103, Inthisrani he served on boatd NES, Nile and Camperdown, and. thus is] Arst decade of service was spent in the normal routine of a julnlor officer. Between 1806 and 1808 he hod ood fortune to Flotilla operating on the Nile, under; the orders of the Sirdar, Sir Kilehner, and hero in command of one oF other of the gun-boats employed, he greatly distinguished himself, and started acareey which was to end the highest rank of the navy. For his services on the Nile, he was promoted to the ranke of Commander on November 15, 1808, when he was lurider 28 years of age, and had little more than six years service in the rank of Heutenani, Service in China this promotion took him over the heads of some 305 lieutenants senior to him, and made him by far} the youngest' commander in the Service. On April 20, 1800, he was appointed as Commander of WINS, Barfleur, flagship of the second-in-command of the China station. During the Boxer Rebellion 4n 1000 he served with great distinetion during the attempt to relieve the Jegations by the mixed naval brigade under the command of Admiral Seymour. He commanded a landing party, of 180 seamen and marines sent. up from 'Taku to Ticnisin, and led 0 arly to capture two Chinese guns, Posted on the railway embankment. which were firing on the settlement. In this action he was badly wounded the lett arm, despite this he insisted in proceeding' with the forces sent out from Tientsin to Hslku for the relief of Admiral Seymour, who had established himself at this place after' his unsuccessful attempt "to. reach. Peking. For his services in Chino, he was, promoted to: the rank of Post, Captain on November 9, 1900. This: slop. was almost unprecedented, He was not yet thirty, and had. only sixteen years service. This passed him, over the heads of 219° com-mangers, and at the age of 29 he was in a rank the average age of which was forty-three, Admiral Beatty fact a special Order in Council had to be executed in connection with. his promotion, as under ordinary circum-janees, captains were required to. serve for a period of six years during peace before becoming eligible for promotion, and in Beatty's case he had served less than this time. Being at the bottom of the dag officers list. the chanco of flying his flag were few and far between; however, he was offered a vacancy in the Atlantic Fleet, which ho declined, a step not conducive to further appointments, fand he might easily have remained M without employment until the time carlie for him to retire. However, When Mr. Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, Beatty and was given an interview with this great statesman, which sulted In his. appointment as Naval Secretary to the First Lord, a position hho retained until he was appointed to his first flagship H.MS. Abouklr of the Sixth Cruiser squadron during the manceuvres of the "Red" and "Blue" fleets, in which no less than 21 admirals flew their flags, and where 335 ships with a total complement of about 90,000 were engaged.
Successful Actions On March 1, 1913, Beatty hoisted his flag in the Lion and took com~ mand of a squadron, later to be extended to a fleet, and from this date lun April 7, 1915—a period of over six yoare—he was continually in com= mand at sea, during which time his fag was never hauled down, although was transferred on several ocean sions, and once during the heat of faction. His successful adions during this time which embraced the whol of the greatest war the world has fever known are too recent and well recorded to be mentioned here.
On August 3, 1014 he was given the} rank of neting Vice-Admiral when in command of what was then known as "Crulser Force A." On August 0, 1015, he was confirmed as Vice-Admiral when in command of the Battle Crulser Fleet. On November 28, 1916, was made Acling Admiral taking command of the Grand Fice!. 'On January 1, 1019, he was confirmed as Admiral, and on April *3, 191 he was promoted to Admiral' of the Fleet. This occurred three days before he left tke Grand Fleet and he hhad_the unique distinction of fying. the Union at the masthead of HIMS.
Queen Ellanbeth. Since the days of King George TIT the only other admirals of the fleet who had flown their flags, were Admiral of the Fi Sir E. Seymour, who flew his 1 jon board HIMS. Inflexible when went to New York as special representative of the Royal Navy in 1000, and Admiral of the Fleet Sir W. May, who hoisted his flag when he acted as Umpire in Chict uring the manures: fu 1612 and With his promotion to Admiral of! the Fleet he reached the highest rank.
the navat service, a rank seldom attained except by a very few men in their generation, and only thea at an age when It becomes more or Jess of an honorary distinction. Few officers have reached this rank under the age of 60, Beatty was only 48, about the age of men in the Captain's Ust, Twenty years previously he had been an unknown lieutenant, so that in 50 short @ {ime as two decades he
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