Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of September, 1900

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Competitive examinations held on 10 July and the following several days produced the following sixty-three successful candidates for naval cadetships in the September, 1900 intake term at Britannia.[1]

  1. Brian Egerton,
  2. Philip Hordern,
  3. Lionel George Foote,
  4. Vernon Saumarez Butler,
  5. Harry Bingham Jermain,
  6. Francis Thomas Butler Tower,
  7. Kenneth Berkeley Mackenzie Churchill,
  8. John Oliver Wyatt,
  9. Edward Tremenheere Malan,
  10. Ralph Frederick Seymour,
  11. Charles Ernest Maconochie,
  12. Hugh Joseph Woodward,
  13. David Victor Fairfax Erskine,
  14. Henry Dale Gill,
  15. William Humphry Nigel Yonge,
  16. Frank Lumb,
  17. Sydney Wilford Beadle,
  18. David Crawfurd Pillans,
  19. Patrick Stewart Erskine Maxwell,
  20. Alfred Geoffrey Peace,
  21. Edward William Gore Ring,
  22. Robert Craigie Hamilton,
  23. Edward Clifford Watson,
  24. Reginald Burnard Darke,
  25. Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott,
  26. Robert Gregory Maze Durrant Hunt,
  27. Henry James Maitland Makgill Crichton,
  28. Arthur Ninian Dowding
  29. Andrew Francis Gordon Tracy,
  30. James Richard Maitland Makgill Crichton,
  31. Wadham Heathcote Diggle,
  32. Cecil Edward Brooke,
  33. Cuthbert Winthrop Swithinbank,
  34. Ralph Leatham,
  35. Charles Douglas Upton,
  36. A. D. Buchanan (not found at TNA),
  37. Reginald Paul Whiting,
  38. Thomas Cecil Benfield Harbottle,
  39. Lionel George Dawson,
  40. Herbert Fitzherbert,
  41. Edward Wilson Mackichan,
  42. Hector Richard Monro,
  43. Henry Lawrence Cheston,
  44. Christopher John Francis Eddis,
  45. Cecil Philip Chearnley,
  46. G. F. Cowlard (not found at TNA),
  47. Francis Edmund Blechynde Haselfoot,
  48. Robert Henry Taunton Raikes,
  49. John Graham Bower,
  50. Henry William Gregory,
  51. Granville Murray-Browne,
  52. Henry Percy Boxer,
  53. Ernest Walter Kirkby,
  54. Lancelot Percy Freyberg,
  55. Alfred Edwin Sumner Tanner,
  56. Gerald Harper,
  57. Gilbert Esdaile Venning,
  58. John de Bugh Jessop,
  59. Gordon Campbell,
  60. Roger Vincent de Halpert,
  61. Gerald Ord Hillier,
  62. Harold Fisher Alderton,
  63. Stephen Savage English,

Additionally, Theodore Keppel Elmsley gained a Service Cadetship with 1395 marks.

The Service Records of the following men suggest that they, too, were part of this term:

Footnotes

  1. "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Aug 11, 1900; pg. 8; Issue 36218.
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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.