Charles Coke

Admiral Sir Charles Henry Coke KCVO (2 October 1854 – 23 February 1945) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First World War.

[1] Coke joined the Royal Navy on 7 April 1868 when he entered the training ship Britannia, in 1872 was appointed a midshipman on the corvette HMS Druid.

[1] Coke served during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War and was present during the attack on Elmina on 13 June 1873, he was awarded the Ashantee Medal.

In February 1901 he was appointed commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Terpsichore, serving at the Cape of Good Hope Station.

[4] After that Coke became Captain, Sheerness Gunnery School in January 1907, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland in April 1911[5] and commander of the Newfoundland Patrol Service in March 1917.