Frederick Field (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Field
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Field
Born	(1871-04-18)18 April 1871 Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
Died	24 October 1945(1945-10-24) (aged 74) Escrick, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1884–1933
Rank	Admiral of the Fleet
Commands	First Sea Lord (1930–33) Mediterranean Fleet (1928–30) Battlecruiser Squadron (1923–25) HMS King George V (1915–16) HMS Vernon (1914–15) HMS Duncan (1910–12) HMS Defiance (1907–09) HMS Jaseur (1902)
Battles / wars	Boxer Rebellion First World War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Mentioned in Despatches Order of Saint Anna, 2nd Class with Swords (Russia) Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) Commander of the Order of the Crown (Romania) Navy Distinguished Service Medal (United States)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Laurence Field, GCB, KCMG (18 April 1871 – 24 October 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in the Boxer Rebellion as commander of a raiding party and in the First World War as commanding officer of the battleship HMS King George V, flagship of Admiral Martyn Jerram at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet before serving as First Sea Lord during the early 1930s, in which role he dealt with the response to the Invergordon Mutiny in September 1931 and ensured the abandonment in 1932 of the 'ten-year rule', an attempt by the treasury to control defence expenditure by requesting the Foreign Office to declare whether there was any risk of war during the next ten years.