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

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Competitive examinations held in March 1905 produced the following thirty-six successful candidates for Naval Cadetships, shown here in order of merit.[1]

  1. Anthony Bevis Lockhart
  2. R. C. Woollerton
  3. Christopher Edward Maude
  4. Edward Osmond
  5. Norman Albert Gustave Ohlenschlager
  6. Heneage Cecil Legge
  7. Geoffrey Francis Waller
  8. Humphrey Wentworth Roughton
  9. Edmund Francis Loftus Jones
  10. James Cleland Mansfield
  11. Reginald Godsell
  12. Augustine Willington Shelton Agar
  13. Willoughby Eyre Chatterton
  14. Francis George Brodribb (one Service Record has him as Frances, I feel this is incorrect)
  15. John Alister Damant and Walter Luke Landale
  16. above two tied
  17. John Hinton Carrow
  18. John Roderick Johnston
  19. Richard Grenville Bowyer
  20. Douglas Adams Budgen
  21. Geoffrey Victor Hickman
  22. John Hermann Brougham
  23. Christopher Lloyd Courtney
  24. Robert Maurice Stopford
  25. Edward Eastwick-Field
  26. Frank Adam Conyers Baker (listed in The Times as "F. A. Conyers-Baker")
  27. Thomas Hugh Geoffrey Barton
  28. Frederick William des Vœux
  29. Harold Geoffrey Leech Harvey
  30. Stuart Douglas Wilson
  31. Harold Vernon Lyon
  32. Hugh Staunton Hornby
  33. Charles Dalrymple Moore
  34. Percy Strickland
  35. Frank Henderson Pegram
  36. William George Tennant

In addition, Charles Dalrymple Moore passed for a Service Cadetship and the following men passed for Colonial Cadetships:

  1. Hugh Fortescue Curry
  2. Eric George Rhodes
  3. Charles Norman Ebden Currey

Though not mentioned in The Times, the service records of the following men suggest that they may also have been part of this term:

  1. Charles Austin Browne
  2. William Tofield Makeig-Jones
  3. Edward Joseph Francis Price

Footnotes

  1. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 20, 1905; pg. 8; Issue 37686.
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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.