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# [[Percival van Straubenzee]], 1383 | # [[Percival van Straubenzee]], 1383 | ||
# [[Leicester Walpole Keppel]], {{PS-Eastman}} 1375 (b 15 Jan 1881, acting SubLt., "services dispensed with" 27 Aug 1901) | # [[Leicester Walpole Keppel]], {{PS-Eastman}} 1375 (b 15 Jan 1881, acting SubLt., "services dispensed with" 27 Aug 1901) | ||
− | # [[Mervyn Patrick Traill Smith]], 1367 | + | # [[Mervyn Patrick Traill-Smith]], 1367 |
# [[Benjamin Claude Greatorex]], 1357 (b 12 May 1880, Lt., d 29 Dec 1909 Plymouth Hospital after falling into launch and breaking spine) | # [[Benjamin Claude Greatorex]], 1357 (b 12 May 1880, Lt., d 29 Dec 1909 Plymouth Hospital after falling into launch and breaking spine) | ||
# [[Wilfred Frankland French]], 1356 | # [[Wilfred Frankland French]], 1356 |
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Examinations held on 12 June and successive days produced sixty successful candidates for naval cadetships for the July 1894 term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]
The prior education noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 11 Aug 1894, p. 1 and 1 Dec 1894, p. 1.
- Gerald Louis Saurin, (Kivernells School) 1695 marks
- Neston William Diggle, 1691
- Quintin Bernard Preston-Thomas, (Stubbington House School) 1656
- Duncan West Roe, 1637
- John Beauchamp Waterlow, 1632
- Reginald Edward Gore, (Kivernells School) 1623 (b 23 Jun 1880, gunnery ret. Cdr., WW2 service)
- Brien Michael Money and Arthur Bisset Streynsham Hoskins Master (b 25 Feb 1880, navigating ret. Cdr., d 11 Feb 1939), 1534
- above two tied
- Christopher Temple Scriven, 1523 (b 1 Oct 180, navigating Lt. Cdr., d 14 Jul 1934)
- Hugh Skinner Shipway, (Kivernells School) 1519
- Charles Morton Forbes, 1515
- Andrew Lumisden Strange, 1457
- The Hon. Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay, 1493
- Clement Loftus Long, 1483
- Wilfrid Edmund Huntley, 1472 (not found at TNA)
- Eric Crofton Collard, (Eastman's Academy) 1436 (b 18 Apr 1880, ret. Cdr., )
- Alexander Riall Wadham Woods, 1433
- Archibald William Fisher-Hall, (Eastman's Academy) 1431 (b 22 Oct 1880, gunnery Lt., ret unfit 8 Jan 1912, d 22 Apr 1913)
- Henry Grattan, 1425 (b 19 Feb 1880, gunnery ret. Capt., WW2 service, )
- Geoffrey Brancker Harrison, 1411 (b 24 Aug 1880, ret. Cdr., WW2 service, d 16 Nov 1942)
- Paul Mawdsley Broster, (Eastman's Academy) 1403 (b 12 Sep 1880, navigating Lt. Cdr., d 18 Aug 1945)
- Bernard William Murray Fairbairn, 1383
- Percival van Straubenzee, 1383
- Leicester Walpole Keppel, (Eastman's Academy) 1375 (b 15 Jan 1881, acting SubLt., "services dispensed with" 27 Aug 1901)
- Mervyn Patrick Traill-Smith, 1367
- Benjamin Claude Greatorex, 1357 (b 12 May 1880, Lt., d 29 Dec 1909 Plymouth Hospital after falling into launch and breaking spine)
- Wilfred Frankland French, 1356
- Clement Holdsworth Groom, 1352 (not found at TNA)
- Charles Arthur Scott, 1334
- William Fortescue Sells, 1321
- Robert Elmhirst Thoyts, 1318
- Dashwood Fowler Moir, 1301
- James Wolfe Murray, 1299
- John Augustine Edgell, (Eastman's Academy) 1298
- Douglas William O'Bryen Forsyth, 1297
- The Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett, 1291
- Horatio Skene Bland, 1284 (b 27 Apr 1880, SubLt., d 30 Apr[?] 1901 drowned in bay)
- Edmond Julius Gordon Mackinnon, 1281
- Stephen Hervey Morres, 1276
- Cecil Sutton Chapman, 1272 (b 13 Jun 1880, acting SubLt., failed thrice to pass college)
- Hubert Greenwood (b 24 Sep 1880, torpedo Lt., d 22 Jul 1913) and Edward Williams Hamilton Brookfield (b 24 Jun 1880, P/T ret. Capt., WW2 service), 1264
- above two tied
- Herbert Thomas Canning Gibbs, 1258 (b 18 May 1880, Lt., d 1 Apr 1910 drowned outside Portland Harbour, jumped/fell off Invincible)
- Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith and Gilbert Collinge (b 29 Jan 1880, Lt., drunk on shore at Gibraltar, dismissed service by CM 29 Jul 1903), 1250
- above two tied
- Bertram Thomas Carlyle Ogilvy Freeman Mitford, 1243
- Tom Cyril Miller (b 17 Nov 1880, Lt., d 14 Apr 1902 gun accident in Mars) and Kenneth Mackenzie Mackenzie-Grieve (b 7 Mar 1880, navigating ret. Cdr., d 26 Sep 1942), 1241
- above two tied
- Gilbert George Pearse Hewett, 1240
- Henry Chalker Durrant Field, 1234
- Colin Alfred Molyneux Sarel, 1224
- Francis Hutchinson Laprimaudaye Lewin, 1220
- Jocelyn Langton Waller, (Eastman's Academy) 1217 (not found at TNA)
- Reginald Bate, (Eastman's Academy) 1211 (b 16 Oct 1880, acting SubLt., resigned 13 Apr 1901)
- Raymond Steriker Parsons, 1206
- William Parkes Scott, 1200 (not found at TNA)
- Reginald Sherley-Price, (Kivernells School) 1194 (not found at TNA)
- Paul Whitfield, 1184
- Kenneth Gofton-Salmond, 1183 (b 17 Jul 1880, gunnery ret. Cdr., )
- Claude William Bulteel Scobell, 1181 (b 15 Mar 1880, ret. Cdr., d 31 May 1946)
The Service Record of Hugh Davenport Colville indicates that he was also in this term.
Two candidates received Colonial Cadetships:
- Henry Richard Kunhardt, 717 marks (b 11 Aug 1880, gunnery Lt., drinker, d 8 Dec 1913 delirium tremens)
- John Ponsonby Yule, 676 (b 25 Jan 1880, Lt., ret 25 Jan 1912 O/R, d 16 Sep 1912 drowned)
Footnotes
- ↑ "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 13, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34315.
Pages in category "H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1894"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.