Admiral Hugh Evan Thomas

Admiral Hugh Evan Thomas GCB, KCMG, MVO (27 October 1862 – 30 August 1928) - one of the Heroes of Jutland. Had Beatty allowed the 5th Battle Squadron to take the lead in the initial contact with Hipper's Battle Cruisers, it is unlikely that either Indefatigable or Queen Mary would have been lost. Beatty though basically Seymour failed to signal Evan Thomas in time of the turn to North and the 5th Battle Squadron took the brunt of the German Battle Cruisers. Even then the German's were far more concerned with the quality of gunnery from the 5th B/S than from Beatty's Battle Cruisers.