Fans of the travel writer Jan Morris will recall her 1960s encounter with an old woman in Czechoslovakia. The woman was from a good family and as a child had frequented the Central European spas with her parents–places also frequented by the British upper classes. At the time Jan Morris met her, she had been reduced, by the Czech communist regime, to working as a janitor in some apartment building. Morris got talking to her about the famous & notable people she remembered from her childhood high-society days. One of them was the great British admiral Jackie Fisher. What did she remember about Fisher? “His face! Oh, the admiral’s face!”

Here is the face, and here are the words, of Fisher’s current successor, Admiral Sir Jonathon Band.