Roger Keyes
Admiral
Roger Keyes served in the Royal Navy as a admiral during first and second world wars. His career belongs to the modern history of Britain’s maritime service and reflects the professional responsibilities attached to command in an industrial or post-industrial navy.
He is associated with aggressive command, destroyer service, and special maritime operations. This formed part of the way the modern Royal Navy operated through technology, organization, and continuous professional service at sea.
He is significant because his biography belongs to the senior command history of the modern Royal Navy. Roger Keyes stands within the tradition of admirals who shaped British sea power in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.