CNSSO meaning in Governmental ?

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What is Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer mean?

This is a list of Royal Naval Paymasters, Supply Officers and Logistics Officers who have reached flag rank, listed in order of seniority as a Rear-Admiral. It was customary for some officers to be promoted upon retirement, so some pre-war paymaster admirals may not have served in the rank on the active list.

Full names are given, where known, and honours and awards are listed in full, but without dates. Dates of birth are not given for the deceased. Appointments held as an admiral are given and a summary, where known, of appointments held since retirement from the Royal Navy.

At any one time, one admiral is appointed as head of the branch, either as Paymaster Director-General from 1918 to 1944, Director-General Supply and Secretariat Branch from 1944 to 1959, Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer (CNSSO) from 1959 to 2004 and, now, Chief Naval Logistics Officer (CNLO). For the last fifty years, this appointment has been an additional job. However, there was no admiral in the logistics branch from 2008–2010 and the post of CNLO was held by the senior Commodore in the branch.

Research continues but the list is now broadly complete in respect of admirals in the past fifty years. A short history of the Supply Officer complements this list.

Paymaster-Director-General Sir John (H G) Chapple KCB CVO - promoted to that rank 6 March 1918 and retired 30 June 1918Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir William Marcus Charles Beresford Whyte (1863–1932) - promoted to the rank of Paymaster-Director-General 1 July 1918 and to Paymaster Rear-Admiral on 8 November 1918, the first proper pusser admiral, Paymaster Director-General having become his appointment rather than the rank. Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, LondonPaymaster Rear-Admiral Charles Augustus Royer Flood Dunbar CBE (1849–1939)Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Hamnet Holditch Share (1864–1937)Paymaster Rear Admiral Charles Edward Allen Woolley CMG (1863-1940), father of Sir Richard Woolley, Astronomer RoyalPaymaster Rear-Admiral LynesPaymaster Rear-Admiral Gerald Solfleet (joined RN 1880; retired 1918)Paymaster Rear-Admiral Frederick G Motton CBEPaymaster Rear-Admiral William Ernest Russell Martin (1867–1946) - (joined RN 1884; retired 1922); author of Adventures of a Naval Paymaster (Herbert Jenkins, 1924)Paymaster Rear-Admiral Herbert A D J Gyles (died 1937)Paymaster Rear-Admiral George Christopher Aubin Boyer (1862–1949) - promoted c.1919Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Charles (Fleetwood) Pollard KCB CMG (1868–1938) - appointed 3 July 1923 as Paymaster Director-General. Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, LondonPaymaster Rear-Admiral Henry M Ommanney (1870–1935) - promoted c.1922Paymaster Rear-Admiral Richard Bosustow Hosking (1869–1962) - promoted 1924Paymaster Rear-Admiral William Frederick Cullinan (1876–1937) - promoted c.1925 and served as Port Accountant Officer, staff of Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, ChathamPaymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Bertram Cowles Allen KCB MVO (1875–1957) - promoted 1 July 1926 and served as Paymaster Director General (1926–1929)Paymaster Rear-Admiral Henry Horniman (1870–1956)Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Frank Spickernell KBE CB DSO (1885-1956) - promoted 1928Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir (Henry Wilfred) Eldon Manisty KCB CMG (1876–1960) - appointed 1 July 1929 as Paymaster Director-General.Paymaster Rear-Admiral John Dickenson Holmes (1875–1947) - promoted 1930Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Ferdinand Murray (187?-1933) - appointed 1 July 1932 as Paymaster Director-General and died in officePaymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Henry William Woodward KCB (187?-19??) - appointed 10 July 1933 as Paymaster Director-General until July 1936Paymaster Rear-Admiral J Siddalls OBEPaymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur (Foster) Strickland KCB OBE (1882–1955) - appointed 10 July 1936 as Paymaster Director-General until retirement in July 1939. Served as Ministry of Food's Chief Divisional Food Officer, Southern Command Area 1941-1943Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir David Sidney Lambert KCB OBE (1885–1966) - promoted 10 July 1939 and served as Paymaster Director-General until retirement in July 1942. Served in the Ministry of Supply (Directorate of Economy) 1942–1944. Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, LondonPaymaster Rear-Admiral (later Rear-Admiral (S)) Sir William Evelyn Hatten Jolly KCB (1887-1961) - promoted 10 July 1942 and served as Paymaster Director-General until 26 October 1944, then Director-General Supply and Secretariat Branch until July 1945Acting Vice-Admiral (S) reference nan