Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1895
Sixty-two candidates were selected for naval cadetships in the January, 1895 intake term of H.M.S. Britannia after competitive examinations held on 4 December 1894 and successive days produced the following results.[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. 22 Jun 1895, p. 4 and 26 Jun 1897 p. 1.
- Frederick Geoffrey Lees Johnson, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1839 marks (b 1 Nov 1880, gunnery ret. Cdr., d 12 Nov 1951)
- Henry Dalrymple Bridges, 1745
- Nicholas Edward Archdale, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1714
- George Edgar Lewin, (Eastman's Academy) 1695
- Hugh Beresford Kington, 1687 (b 10 Feb 1881, Lt., d 1 Apr 1907 in Australia)
- John Leonard Cather, 1625
- Cecil James Crocker, (Eastman's Academy) 1604
- Gilbert L. Popham, 1602 (not found at TNA)
- Harold Selwyn Eliot, (Eastman's Academy) 1535 (not found at TNA)
- Henry Tresilian Hayes, 1561 (b 14 Apr 1881, Lt., d 1904)
- Robert Francis Pitcairn, 1539
- John Hassard Tyrrell, 1534 (not found at TNA)
- Arthur Edward Frederick Bedford, 1516
- Gerard Brook Riley, 1509 (b 5 Apr 1881, torpedoes ret. Capt., d 1 Sep 1943)
- Hubert Edward Dannreuther, 1502
- Richard England Brooke, 1497 (b 29 May 1881, Mid, withdrawn at request of father)
- William Geoffrey Plantagenet Graves, 1489 (b 22 May 1881, Lt., d 25 Apr 1908 in wreck of H.M.S. Gladiator)
- Richard Augustus Willes, 1483 (b 24 Feb 1881, acting SubLt., unfit vision c. 1901)
- Robert James Buchanan, 1484
- Arthur Thomas Muir, 1469
- George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey, 1444
- William Lambarde Hodgson, 1411 (not found at TNA)
- Geoffrey Philip Russell and Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, 1406
- above two tied
- Herbert Richardson Stokes, 1405
- Nettleton Balme, 1397 (b 28 Mar 1881, Mid, withdrawn 1898 after misconduct in Royal Sovereign)
- Robert Corbett Bayldon (b 4 May 1881, Lt., ) and Alban Lewis Gwynne (b 15 Sep 1880, torpedoes ret. Cdr., WW2 service, d 5 Jul 1942), 1396
- above two tied
- Frederick Vere Williamson, 1393
- Christopher C. Trench, 1388
- Francis Charles Hanning-Lee, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1387 (b 29 Sep 1880, navigating ret. Cdr., WW2 service, d 29 May 1949)
- John Rickards Middleton, 1385 (b 10 Oct 1880, torpedoes ret. Capt., )
- Donald Errington, 1371 (b 3 Sep 1880, torpedoes ret. Cdr., d 28 Oct 1941)
- Huntly Walsh, (Eastman's Academy) 1355 (b 12 Dec 1880, navigating Lt. Cdr., d 29 Aug 1916)
- Charles Thomas Alexander Bunbury, 1347
- Ronald Northcote Kempe, 1345
- Richard Wyville Bromley, (Eastman's Academy) 1343
- Robin Campsie Dalglish, 1337
- John Knowles im Thurn, 1335
- Thomas Frederick John Livesey Wardle, 1328 (b 7 Apr 1881, acting SubLt., failed to pass examinations 1901)
- James Bayley, (Eastman's Academy) 1324
- Lawrence Stanley Biden, 1323 (b 19 Jul 1880, Lt., d 5 Jul 1903 at Chung King)
- Frederick Algernon Reyne, (Eastman's Academy) 1319
- Hector Boyes, (Eastman's Academy) 1314
- Humphrey Randle Upton Cottrell-Dormer, 1312
- Thomas Charles Reginald Higgins, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1284 (b 21 Jul 1880, Mid, withdrew 19 Jul 1900)
- Thomas Charles Armstrong and Frederic Gerald Stuart Peile, 1281
- above two tied
- Lionel Arthur Hurst Bisset Maitland-Addison, 1270
- John Harry Knight, 1269 (b 20 Nov 1880, ret. Cdr., )
- Francis William Loftus Tottenham, 1265
- Arthur George Hayes Bond, 1257
- Richard Barrington Ward, 1250 (b 1 Feb 1881, Squadron Cdr., )
- Patrick Edward Parker, 1246
- Charles Albert Carey (b 11 Nov 1880, torpedoes Cdr., d 8 Sep 1925) and Eustace Leonard Ring (b 31 Oct 1880, Lt., ret unfit 23 May 1905, d 7 Dec 1908), 1239
- above two tied
- Beauchamp T. St. John and Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawny, 1232
- above two tied
- Hugh Charles Buckle, 1231
- Arthur Macaulay Lecky, (Eastman's Academy) 1222
- John Kenneth Beaufoy Birch, 1209
The Service Records of Ralph Eliot, Herbert Noel Stewart and Richard Anthony Aston Plowden (Eastman's Academy) (ranked 65th with 1205 marks) seem to clearly indicate that they, too, were in this term.
Additionally, Bertram Aldworth[?] Tivy earned a Colonial Cadetship and Edward George Fane (Eastman's Academy) a Service Cadetship.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Dec 29, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34460.
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