Admiral Sir Guy Charles Cecil Royle KCB, CMG (17 August 1885 – 4 January 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fifth Sea Lord and First Naval Member of the Royal Australian Navy.
[1] He served in the First World War as Gunnery Officer on the battleship HMS Marlborough and was at the Battle of Jutland in 1916,[2] then on the staff of Admiral Sir Charles Madden in the Grand Fleet.
[2] He went on to be Naval Secretary from 1934 and to 1937, when he was appointed Vice Admiral commanding the aircraft carriers, serving until 1939.
[1] In retirement he was appointed briefly as Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain and finally as Yeoman Usher (deputy) of the Black Rod,[4] a ceremonial position in the House of Lords, serving in that office from 1946 to 1953.
[5] He collapsed and died while putting out a heath fire near his home at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.