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Jonathon Band

Royal Navy Admiral (born 1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, is a retired Royal Navy officer who was the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2006 to 2009. Before serving as First Sea Lord he was Commander-in-Chief Fleet. Since becoming First Sea Lord, Band had been a firm advocate of the creation of new ships to meet new threats and maintain the status of the Royal Navy as one of the world's leading naval forces.

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“Jonathon Band” enters the record as royal Navy Admiral (born 1950). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jonathon, Band and Royal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathon Band” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.