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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| John Edmund Commerell R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Second son of John Williams Commerell (1796-1847) of Strood Park, Horsham | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 13 January 1829 | Born (London) | ||
| 13 October 1853 | Married Mathilda Maria (1835-1930), fourth daughter of Joseph Bushby of Halkin Street, London | ||
| 11 October 1855 | In the Sea of Azov, Crimea, together with Quartermaster William Thomas Rickard and a seaman, he destroyed large quantities of forage on the shore of the Putrid Sea. For this he was subsequently awarded the Victoria Cross | ||
| 2 November 1866 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), civil branch | ||
| 1870 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), military branch | ||
| 1872 | Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria | ||
| 1874 | 1879 | Groom-in-waiting to Queen Victoria | |
| 30 March 1874 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 25 November 1885 | 23 May 1888 | M.P. (Conservative) for Southampton | |
| 21 June 1887 | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) | ||
| 20 February 1901 | Died (London) | ||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 19 February 1842 | Entered Navy | ||
| 13 December 1848 | Lieutenant | ||
| 29 September 1855 | Commander | ||
| 18 July 1859 | Captain | ||
| 12 November 1876 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 19 January 1881 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 12 April 1886 | Admiral | ||
| 14 February 1892 | Admiral of the Fleet | ||
| 13 February 1899 | Retired Admiral of the Fleet | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 16 May 1848 | 18 October 1848 | Mate in Comus, commanded by Commander Edwin Clayton Tennyson D'Eyncourt, south-east coast of America | |
| 28 April 1849 | 8 June 1850 | Lieutenant in Dragon, commanded by Captain William Hutcheon Hall, particular service (Lisbon) | |
| 8 August 1850 | 15 September 1852 | Lieutenant in Dauntless, commanded by Captain Edward Pellew Halsted, particular service | |
| 28 December 1853 | 16 February 1854 | Lieutenant in Pique, commanded by Captain Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Pacific | |
| 17 February 1854 | 22 February 1855 | Lieutenant in Vulture, commanded by Captain Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse, the Baltic and then (1855) the Black Sea and Sea of Azov during the Russian War | |
| 23 February 1855 | 27 November 1855 | Lieutenant and commander in Weser, in the Sea of Azov (where he won his Victoria Cross) | |
| 27 February 1856 | 22 July 1857 | Commander in Snake, Mediterranean | |
| 19 October 1858 | 17 July 1859 | Commander in Fury, China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | |
| 18 July 1859 | 30 April 1861 | Captain in Magicienne, East Indies and China | |
| 8 July 1865 | 1 January 1866 | Captain in Scorpion, Portsmouth | |
| 3 May 1866 | 18 May 1868 | Captain in Terrible, helping to lay the (third, and finally successful) Atlantic cable | |
| 14 May 1869 | 18 October 1870 | Captain in Monarch, Channel squadron | |
| 16 February 1871 | 25 March 1874 | Commodore in Rattlesnake (until paying off at Plymouth), Commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope and west coast of Africa (until invalided by a wound received in the Second Anglo-Ashantee War) | |
| 12 July 1877 | 19 December 1878 | Second in command, Mediterranean, flag in Agincourt | |
| 9 December 1879 | 14 May 1880 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (Junior Naval Lord) | |
| 23 November 1882 | 12 October 1885 | Commander-in-chief, North America and West Indies, flag in Northampton | |
| 20 June 1888 | 22 June 1891 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth, flag in Duke of Wellington | |
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