Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1903

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The following candidates claimed the first 72 places in order of merit in examinations held on 18 November and following days for cadetships in the Royal Navy in the January 1903 intake term at Britannia.[1]

  1. Arthur Erskine Gurney Coombs
  2. Humphrey Matthews
  3. Reginald James Blakeney Drew
  4. Ernest John Spooner
  5. William Sidney Hamilton Bernard
  6. Charles Henry Rolleston
  7. James Catt
  8. Ralph Ireland
  9. John Bernard Hughes
  10. Thomas Robert Hay Broadwood (not found at TNA. Died in the Innerwick (East Lothian) Registration District, Scotland in 1905. Buried in Cockburnspath.)
  11. Henry Samuel Homersham Ellis
  12. Hilary Poland Mead
  13. Frederick Arthur Buckley
  14. William Anlaby Gore Onslow (not found at TNA; clerk in Navy List of Jan 1908)
  15. John Henry Godfrey
  16. William Geoffrey Pease
  17. Frederick Henry Taylor
  18. Warren Howard Jotham
  19. Walter Herman Gordon Fallowfield
  20. Rupert Clare Garsia
  21. James Brodrick Tilney Church
  22. Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips
  23. Evelyn Twysden Wickham
  24. Eric Keith Perks
  25. Ralph Neville and William Frederic Wake-Walker
  26. above two tied
  27. George Fagan Bradshaw
  28. Edmond Mansel Bowly
  29. Noel Arthur Marsh
  30. Gerald Frederick William Addison
  31. Arthur George Venables
  32. Claud Herbert Godwin
  33. Douglas George Wilberforce Curry
  34. Harry Thring Bennett
  35. Charles Granville Naylor
  36. Noel Marcus Francis Corbett
  37. Hubert George Morgan Hill
  38. Robert Peel Dennistoun Webster
  39. Godfrey Ratcliffe Chambers
  40. Alfred William John Finlayson and Henry Harwood Harwood
  41. above two tied
  42. Nigel Cameron Westall
  43. Reginald Blayney Bulteel Colmore
  44. Robert Irvine Faulkner
  45. Mark Edward Highton
  46. Edward Selby Wise
  47. Francis Quiller Champness and Hugh Richard Marrack
  48. above two tied
  49. Aubyn Littledale
  50. Walter Edward Scott
  51. B. C. B. Tower (not found at TNA or Navy List of Jan 1908) and Robert Lindsay Burnett
  52. above two tied
  53. John Kyrle Perrott Sherlock
  54. Keith Richard Farquharson
  55. Arnold Borlase Warren-Vernon (b 18 Oct 1887, Mid, d 18 Jun 1906 in fall to deck of Russell)
  56. Thomas Bollen Seath McGregor-Robertson
  57. Percy Hubert Boulnois
  58. Philip Esmonde Phillips
  59. Basil Arthur Beal and Frederick William Sowerby
  60. above two tied
  61. Thomas Kerr
  62. Eric William Westgarth Ling
  63. Nelson Clover ("Glover" in The Guardian, but uniformly Clover at TNA)
  64. Henry Keppel Garnier
  65. Alfred Michael Winser
  66. Henry Forrester
  67. Reginald Hugh Errington
  68. Humphrey Walter Smith
  69. Henry Armstrong Binmore and Guy Langton Warren
  70. above two tied
  71. Douglas Burrard Cooper
  72. Haven Ainley (withdrawn as Sub. Lt. on 3 June, 1908)

Victor Robert Montgomerie entered as a Service Cadet and Alexander David Boyle as a Colonial Cadet.

Additionally, the Service Records of Frederick Cluny Lucas and Harold William Morey indicate that they may also have been part of this term.

Passing Out

The cadets' scores on passing out (one of sixty-nine cadets failed the testing) were reported in April, 1904. The results indicated what chief naval instructor Mr. E. M. Tims described as being, "strong at the hed, weak at the tail." Their ranking, overall, and the class of their rating in Maths/ Extra subjects/Seamanship were as follows.[2]

  1. Humphrey Matthews 1/1/1
  2. Ralph Ireland 1/1/1
  3. Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips 1/1/1
  4. John Bernard Hughes 1/1/1
  5. Gerald Frederick William Addison 1/1/1
  6. Robert Irvine Faulkner 1/1/1
  7. Ernest John Spooner 1/2/1
  8. Philip Esmonde Phillips 1/1/1
  9. Francis Quiller Champness 1/1/1
  10. Douglas George Wilberforce Curry 1/1/1
  11. Warren Howard Jotham 1/2/1
  12. Arthur Erskine Gurney Coombs 1/2/1
  13. Reginald James Blakeney Drew 1/2/1
  14. John Henry Godfrey 1/2/1
  15. William Frederic Wake-Walker 1/1/1
  16. Hilary Poland Mead 1/2/1
  17. William Geoffrey Pease 2/1/1
  18. Evelyn Twysden Wickham 3/1/1
  19. Frederick Henry Taylor 1/1/1
  20. Henry Harwood Harwood 1/2/1 and Charles Granville Naylor 3/1/1
  21. above two tied
  22. Harry Thring Bennett 2/1/1
  23. Frederick Arthur Buckley 1/2/1
  24. James Brodrick Tilney Church 3/1/1
  25. Charles Henry Rolleston 1/2/1
  26. Eric William Westgarth Ling 1/2/1
  27. Nigel Cameron Westall 1/2/1
  28. Robert Peel Dennistoun Webster 2/1/1
  29. James Catt 2/2/1
  30. Walter Edward Scott 1/2/2
  31. John Kyrle Perrott Sherlock 3/1/1
  32. Henry Samuel Homersham Ellis 1/2/2
  33. Edward Selby Wise 3/2/2
  34. Reginald Blayney Bulteel Colmore 2/2/1
  35. Noel Arthur Marsh 2/2/2
  36. Claud Herbert Godwin 3/1/2
  37. George Fagan Bradshaw 3/1/1
  38. Alfred Michael Winser 3/1/1
  39. Nelson Clover 2/2/2
  40. Hubert George Morgan Hill 2/2/2
  41. Mark Edward Highton 3/2/1
  42. Frederick William Sowerby 3/2/2
  43. Henry Armstrong Binmore 2/2/1
  44. Ralph Neville 3/2/2
  45. Rupert Clare Garsia 3/2/2
  46. Eric Keith Perks 2/2/2
  47. Alfred William John Finlayson 3/1/1
  48. Edmond Mansel Bowly 3/2/1
  49. Aubyn Littledale 3/2/2
  50. Godfrey Ratcliffe Chambers 3/2/2
  51. Basil Arthur Beal 3/2/1
  52. Hugh Richard Marrack 3/2/2
  53. Douglas Burrard Cooper 3/1/2
  54. Percy Hubert Boulnois 3/2/1
  55. Henry Keppel Garnier 3/2/1
  56. Arthur George Venables 3/2/1
  57. Humphrey Walter Smith 3/2/2
  58. Noel Marcus Francis Corbett 3/1/2
  59. Keith Richard Farquharson 3/3/3
  60. Thomas Ballen Seath McGregor-Robertson 3/2/2
  61. Haven Ainley 3/2/2
  62. William Sidney Hamilton Bernard 3/2/2
  63. Alastair Charles Nicol Farquhar (recorded as "A. C. W. Farquhar") 3/2/1
  64. Robert Lindsay Burnett 3/2/2
  65. Walter Herman Gordon Fallowfield 3/2/2
  66. Guy Langton Warren 3/3/2
  67. Arnold Borlase Warren-Vernon 3/3/2
  68. Henry Forrester 3/3/2

Footnotes

  1. The Guardian. 22 December, 1902. p. 8
  2. "Britannia Prize Distribution." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 14, 1904; pg. 5; Issue 37368.
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