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An important battle of Jutland D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Forbes, G.C.B., Royal Navy, Flag Commander to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at Jutland, and later Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet during the Norway campaign in 1940 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Commr. C. M. Forbes, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. M. Forbes. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (11) £5000-6000 Footnote G.C.B. London Gazette 11 July 1940: ‘Admiral of the Fleet, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 15 September 1916: Jutland Gazette, with remarks of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe ‘Commander Charles Morton Forbes, R.N. My Flag Commander, who has always afforded me great assistance. This officer was Executive Officer of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth during the whole period that ship was employed at the Dardanelles.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 6 July 1916 (Dardanelles), and 9 April 1920 (Russia 1919). Order of St Stanislas, 2nd Class (with Swords) London Gazette 5 June 1917: ‘For distinguished service rendered in the battle of Jutland. Charles Morton Forbes was born on 22 November 1880, second son of James Forbes of Colombo, Ceylon. He was educated at Dollar Academy and Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy, Southsea. He joined the training ship Britannia as a cadet on 15 July 1894, was promoted to Midshipman in July 1896 and posted to the battleship Magnificent in the Channel Fleet in September 1896, and to the armoured cruiser Imperieuse on the Pacific Station in January 1898. Promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant in January 1900, he returned to the U.K. for his promotion courses, becoming Lieutenant in January 1901, and appointed to the battleship Royal Oak in the Mediterranean Fleet. In early April 1902 Forbes transferred to the armoured cruiser Aboukir, also serving in the Mediterranean Fleet. After attending the gunnery school H.M.S. Excellent in 1903, he was assigned to Directing Staff at at the gunnery school H.M.S. Cambridge in June 1904. He then became gunnery officer in the armoured cruiser Carnarvon in the Mediterranean Fleet in May 1905 and gunnery officer in the battleship Dominion in the Channel Fleet in May 1908. After joining the staff of the Inspectorate of Target Practise in October 1910, he became gunnery officer in the battleship Superb in the Home Fleet in February 1911 and then, having been promoted to Commander in December 1912, he returned to the gunnery school H.M.S. Excellent in early 1913. Forbes served as Executive Officer in the battleship Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean Fleet from November 1914 and saw action in the Dardanelles campaign in April 1915. He became Flag Officer to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, in the battleship Iron Duke in October 1915 and served in that capacity in the battle of Jutland in May 1916 for which he was awarded the D.S.O. and Order of St Stanislas. He moved on to become Flag Commander to Admiral Sir Charles Madden Second-in-Command of the Grand Fleet, in the battleship Revenge in February 1917. Promoted to Captain in June 1917, he was given command of the cruiser Galatea in the Grand Fleet in July 1917, was present at the surrender of the German fleet in November 1918, and afterwards served in the campaign against the Bolsheviks in North Russia in 1919. After the end of the war Forbes served as Naval Member of the Ordnance Committee from October 1919 and then, after attending the Senior Officers' course at the Royal Naval War College, he served as Deputy Director of the Royal Navy Staff College from August 1921. He became Flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in the battleship Queen Elizabeth in June 1923, Flag Captain to the Flag Officer Commanding the 3rd Battle Squadron in the battleship Iron Duke in October 1924 and Director of Naval Ordnance at