Personnel Profile
Godfrey Herbert
Submarine and staff officer
Godfrey Herbert served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during first and second world wars. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with submarine service and later institutional roles. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most famous combat commanders. Godfrey Herbert belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.