Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1881

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Twenty-three candidates for naval cadetships successfully passed the entrance examinations for the January, 1881 term at H.M.S. Britannia in the following order of merit.[1]

  1. Sydney Robert Fremantle
  2. Michael Culme-Seymour
  3. Arthur Cavenagh Leveson
  4. Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot
  5. Claude Preston Buckle (b 19 Sep 1867, ret 19 Sep 1912 as Cdr., war service Capt.)
  6. Arthur Hepburn Walsh (b 31 Jul 1867, ret unfit 30 Mar 1893, war service Cdr., d 6 Aug 1941)
  7. Philip Howard Colomb
  8. Cecil John Fiennes (b 8 Sep 1867, Lt., d 22 Dec 1894 heart failure)
  9. Sydenham Gordon Douglas
  10. Warren Hastings D'Oyly
  11. George Ernest Stapleton Petch
  12. Thomas Hudson Foster (b 31 Dec 1867, ret unfit as Capt. Jul 1907,d 21 Jul 1950)
  13. Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg
  14. Henry Bertram Pelly
  15. Edwin Veale Underhill
  16. Harold Christian
  17. William Burgoyne Cowper-Coles (b 22 Sep 1867, acting Sub Lt., resigned service at O.R. 24 Apr 1889)
  18. Henry Blackett
  19. George Ellis Cave
  20. Judge D'Arcy
  21. Gilbert Charles Hutton Wintle (b 27 Oct 1867, Sub Lt. res 24 Jul 1890, not placed on Emergency List)
  22. Charles Frederick Corbett
  23. Frank Osborne Osborne (b 1 Sep 1867, ret as Cdr. 3 Dec 1909, promoted Capt. ret, d 1 Sep 1943)

Footnotes

  1. "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Dec 02, 1880; pg. 6; Issue 30054.
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From September 1903 entries were also made to the Royal Naval College, Osborne under the Selborne Scheme. The Britannia was closed in July 1905 after the May entry, which was sent to Bermuda with the January entry. The following two terms under the old scheme were sent straight to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.