Category:Training Establishment Entrants of September, 1903
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Jump to navigationJump to searchSeventy-three men were accepted for Naval Cadetships under the new training scheme after July qualifying examinations for the Royal Naval College, Osborne term of September, 1903. Departing from previous practice when entrances were made to Britannia, the published list was alphabetical, and did not indicate scores or even order of merit in the entrance examination.[1]
This term contains an inordinate number of engineers and emergency list men.
- Charles Keith Adam
- Charles Henry Allen
- Hugh Christopher Arnold-Forster
- John Tremayne Babington (b 20 Jul 1891, ret Wing Cdr., )
- A. F. W. Baker (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Stuart John Layton Bennett
- C. T. B. Berry (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Oliver Bevir
- A. W. Bowles (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- John Loyd Bucknall (b 4 Dec 1890, Lt., d 14 July 1911 of appendicitis)
- Roden Henry Victor Buxton
- Evan George Charles Cavendish
- John Paramore Charley (b 24 Sep 1890, Lt. Cdr., xfer to engineering)
- J. N. Chaworth-Musters (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Francis Cyril Cox (b 21 Oct 1890, Mid., withdrawn in 1911, possibly due to failed examinations)
- J. C. B. Crozier (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- G. H. J. Duckworth-King (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds
- Kenneth Edwards
- Hugh Sydney Egerton (actually entered in January, 1904)
- Charles Lindsay Evan-Thomas
- Victor Alexander Ewart (b 15 Feb 1891, Lt. actually entered in January, 1904, d in Queen Mary at Jutland)
- Viscount Exmouth
- Harold William Fawcett
- Thomas Balfour Fellowes
- Roger Hubert Fitzherbert-Brockholes (b 19 Feb 1891, torpedo Lt., d 2 Jul 1919 minesweeping N. Russia)
- William Antony Floyer (b 31 Dec 1891, signals Cdr. ret, d 26 Oct 1943)
- Denys Chester Ford (b 20 Oct 1890, Lt. Cdr., xfer to engineering)
- Thomas Dunlop Galbraith (b 20 Mar 1891, Cdr. ret, WW2)
- Cuthbert Walter Sumner Gibson (b 9 Dec 1890, Cdr. emergency, xfer to engineering branch)
- Eric Redmond Sutton Gordon (b 31 Oct 1890, Mid., withdrawn in 1911, possibly due to failed examinations)
- Kenneth Hector Grant
- Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton
- John Schomberg Hammill
- Henry James Hartnoll (his Service Record indicates he entered with January 1904 term)
- K. S. S. Henderson (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Robin Edmund Jeffreys
- John Archibald Kemp (b 4 Nov 1890, Lt., d at Jutland in Tipperary)
- James Robert Branch Kennedy (b 13 Apr 1891, Lt., d 13 Jun 1913 aeroplane crash)
- Henry Leonard Ivers Kirkpatrick
- John Needham Knox
- Cyril John Maule Lang (b 29 Oct 1890, navigating Cdr. ret, WW2)
- Charles Arthur Aiskew Larcom
- T. M. C. Lloyd (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- John Cecil Masterman
- Edward Robert Micklem
- Charles Disney Milward
- John Erskine Mitchell-Carruthers
- Alexander Cyril Montagu (died in Bulwark)
- W. S. Murland (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- D. S. Northcote (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Lawrence Frederick Nelson Ommanney
- Herbert Walter Julian Orde (lost in Goliath)
- J. T. Ormsby (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Guy Florance Bickersleth Ottley
- L. G. Paget (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Harry Alan Pelham
- John Francis Hungerford Pollen
- Reginald Ramsbotham
- Christopher Hildyard Ringrose
- G. W. Samuelson (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Brian Leonard Geoffrey Sebastian
- Ralph Edgar Snook
- Desmond Adair Stride
- Alban Edward Trevor Tate
- John Edward Tennant (withdrawn 1911)
- Arthur Hugh Lloyd Terry
- Hugo William Louis Tyrrell (died in K 17)
- Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker (died in K 4)
- Claud Michael Ashmore Wellesley
- H. M. Whelan (not found in TNA or Navy List of July 1908 or March 1913)
- Trevor Whitaker (died in E 10)
- Alexander Guy Berners Wilson
The Service Records of Trevor Tempest Parker and Geoffry Kirkland Rylands indicate they joined this term, as well.
Passing Out
The Times published a ranked list of the 56 cadets' examination scores upon passing out from the training cruiser H.M.S. Cumberland in April, 1908. Oliver Bevir was placed first, followed by Kenneth Edwards. Evan George Charles Cavendish would place last.[2]
Footnotes
| Term Intakes into Royal Naval College, Osborne |
| Before 1905, new Naval Cadets went to H.M.S. Britannia |
| 1903-1909 |
| Sep, 1903 | Jan, 1904 | May, 1904 | Sep, 1904 | Jan, 1905 | May, 1905 | Sep, 1905 | Jan, 1906 | May, 1906 | Sep, 1906 Jan, 1907 | May, 1907 | Sep, 1907 | Jan, 1908 | May, 1908 | Sep, 1908 | Jan, 1909 | May, 1909 | Sep, 1909 |
| 1910-1914 |
| Jan, 1910 | May, 1910 | Sep, 1910 | Jan, 1911 | May, 1911 | Sep, 1911 | Jan, 1912 | May, 1912 | Sep, 1912 Jan, 1913 | May, 1913 | Sep, 1913 | Jan, 1914 | May, 1914 | Sep, 1914 |
| 1915-1919 |
| Jan, 1915 | May, 1915 | Sep, 1915 | Jan, 1916 | May, 1916 | Sep, 1916 | Jan, 1917 | May, 1917 | Sep, 1917 Jan, 1918 | May, 1918 | Sep, 1918 | Jan, 1919 | May, 1919 | Sep, 1919 |
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