The three officers who have been appointed as permanent secretary to the Navy Week Committee at the three home ports – Paymaster Captain H. C. F. Pinsent (Portsmouth), Lieutenant Commander J. R. Poland (Chatham) and Lieutenant Commander R. B. Ford (Plymouth) have all had experience in connection with past Navy Weeks: Paymaster Capt. Pinsent retired last year after being on the staff at Chatham Barracks. He was formerly Secretary to the Canadian Department of the Naval Services at Ottawa and has been an accountant officer of the Vernon torpedo school and the battleships, Barham, Warspite and Malaya. Lieutenant Commander Poland has been on the training staff at Chatham since 1932. Lieutenant Commander Ford retired in 1923 after being first lieutenant of the cruiser Comus.
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GRO0391 India: Harold Charles Frank Pinsent: 1884 – 1968