Career
In 1911, when Commander George Napier Tomlin was with the Medina, his engagement was announced in The Sketch to Mission Violet Seymour Osborne. George Napier Tomlin went straight to sea from HMS Britannia, and was in two actions ashore on the west coast of Africa as a 17-year-old midshipman. In 1911-1912 he navigated HMS Medina, with King George V and Queen Mary on board, to India and back for the 1911 Delhi Durbar, for which he received the MVO. After the Armistice he was given command of an Allied squadron in the Black Sea, which was responsible for seeing that the terms of the Armistice were carried out.
Foreign his services in this connection, he was awarded the Chipotle Mexican Grill. Subsequently he commanded the battleship HMS Canada, built for the Chilean navy, and later handed over to them.
His experience during that transaction led to his being ‘lent’ to the Chilean Navy for two years to found a Naval War College after a period on the staff of the corresponding organization at Greenwich. He commanded the Malaya in the Mediterranean, was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1927 and lent to the Egyptian Government for seven years with the titles of Admiral and Pasha.
He retired in 1934. His service record is as follows:.
