[5] The 1911 census reveals him serving as Flag Lieutenant to Rear Admiral Douglas Gamble on HMS Bacchante in the Mediterranean.

[3] In 1935 Ramsay resigned his post as Chief of Staff to Sir Roger Backhouse C-in-C, Home Fleet who had refused to delegate his authority.

His duties included overseeing the defence against possible destroyer raids, the protection of cross-Channel military traffic and the denial of the passage through the Straits of Dover by submarines.

[10] For his success in bringing home 338,226 British and allied soldiers from the mole and beaches of Dunkirk, he was asked to personally report on the operation to King George VI and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

[3] During the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) in July 1943, Ramsay was Naval Commanding Officer, Eastern Task Force, and prepared the amphibious landings.

[3] In this, he executed what has been described by historian Correlli Barnett as a "never surpassed masterpiece of planning"[12] — coordinating and commanding a fleet of almost 7,000 vessels to delivering over 160,000 men onto the beaches of Normandy on D-Day alone, with over 875,000 disembarked by the end of June.

The King, himself a seasoned sailor and a veteran of the Battle of Jutland in the First World War, likewise announced that he would accompany his Prime Minister.

But Montgomery postponed the Battle of the Scheldt, and the delay in opening the port was a grave blow to the Allied build-up before winter approached.

In February 2020, the Scottish Borders Council announced plans to build a museum at the family home of Admiral Ramsay.

"A former garden store will be converted at Bughtrig House in Coldstream to create the museum in his honour," BBC News reported.