Admiral Jellicoe

In trying to chronicle the events in Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s life one is faced with many difficulties the greatest of which is that hitherto his most important battles have been fought on land behind closed doors and as far as the public is concerned in the dark. Although Sir John Jellicoe has seen active service in Egypt and in China has sailed his ships on many seas and gone down into the Valley of the Shadow on no fewer than three occasions he has nevertheless managed to give valuable years to the Admiralty on shore; and it was during the periods when he became successively Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance Naval Assistant to the Controller of Navy Director of Naval Ordnance and Controller of the Navy that his most valuable work was done.