Description
A sterling silver Royal Navy Service Record Napkin Ring made for Rear Admiral Patrick Willet Brock CB DSO by Richard Comyns (William Comyns & Sons Ltd.), London, 1944-5. Admiral Brock was born on 30 December 1902 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and died 11 October 1988 (aged 85) in Haslemere, Surrey, England.
Naval career
Service/branch: Royal Naval College of Canada / Royal Navy
Years of service: 1917-1920 / 1920–1958
Final rank: Rear Admiral
Commands and other senior posts held: Senior Naval Officer, Schleswig-Holstein (HMS Royal Harold); HMS Phoenicia; HMS Kenya; Director, Operations Division, Admiralty; Flag Officer Middle East (HMS Aphrodite) responsible for Ismailia and Cyprus; Admiralty Material Requirements Committee.
Awards: Companion of the Order of the Bath (1956); Distinguished Service Order (1951 – Korea).
Later career
Vice President, Society for Nautical Research 1970-1988. Chairman, The Naval Review, 1967-78. Chairman, Kipling Society, 1973-76. Trustee, National Maritime Museum, 1960-74.
Publications: with Basil Greenhill, Steam and Sail in Great Britain and North America (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973); article, ‘Commander E AE Nixon and the Royal Naval College of Canada, 1910-1922’ in The RCN in retrospect, 1910-1968 (edited by James A Boutilier, reprinted by University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1982).
Family
In 1931 Brock married M. D. Collinson (died 1974) then, in 1976, Mrs. Rosemary Harrison Stanton.
