Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1905

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Forty-five candidates were accepted from competitive examinations which started on 15 November, 1904 for the January, 1905 term of H.M.S. Britannia. Their standing, in order of merit, was as follows.[1]

  1. Rodolph Henry Fane De Salis
  2. Cathcart Charles William Bourchier
  3. Edward William Herford Blake and Henry Francis Morton Peto
  4. above two tied
  5. David Norman Walter Joel
  6. Charles Maxwell Richard Schwerdt
  7. Hubert Guy Dyke Acland
  8. Cromwell Hanford Varley
  9. Neville Duncan Burleigh Taylor
  10. Ernest James Vernon Thornton
  11. Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton
  12. Reginald Andrew Jackson
  13. Gerald Leather
  14. Edward Chicheley Thornton
  15. F. M. T. Arnold
  16. Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Maxse
  17. Lawrence Raikes Higgins
  18. Brian Thornbury
  19. George Walter Hill
  20. Colin George MacArthur and Harry Alexander Dykes Keate
  21. above two tied
  22. Humphrey Edward Archer
  23. Ronald Inglis Collier
  24. Charles James Forlong
  25. Clemont Jesse Harter
  26. John Sydney Bovill
  27. William Reynard Richardson
  28. J. P. A. Waller and Guy Onslow Lydekker
  29. above two tied
  30. Henry Cecil Courtney Clarke
  31. John Shenstone Prescott-Roberts
  32. Lewis John Pitcairn Jones
  33. Charles Mackay John Willis
  34. Francis Howard
  35. John Haythorne Steel
  36. Eustace Newton Gerald Maton
  37. Geoffrey John Audley Miles
  38. Vincent Paul Freeman
  39. Fitzadam Millar
  40. George Arthur Titterton
  41. Jefferey Edward Vere-Hopegood
  42. The Hon. Ronald William Edward Finch
  43. Charles Taylor Stanham and Barrington George Dashwood Stopford
  44. above two tied
  45. John Godfrey Bowles

Cedric Swinton Holland and C. W. F. Morgan were accepted as Service Cadets.

Frederic Thornton Peters and Alan Kerr McClintock Halliley were accepted as Colonial Cadets.

While not mentioned in the source above, Charles Stewart Lockhart also appears to have been in this term.

Footnotes

  1. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 19, 1904; pg. 10; Issue 37581.

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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.