Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1886
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe following were declared by the Civil Service Commission to be the successful candidates at the examination held on 9 June, 1886, for cadetships in the Royal Navy.[1]
The prior education noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 18 Jun 1887, p. 3.
- Wilfred Henderson, 1529 ("Wilfred Anderson" in The Times)
- Bernard Louis Majendie, 1497
- Robert Neale Lawson, 1494
- John Saumarez Dumaresq, 1444
- Frederick Armand Powlett, 1440
- Stephen Herbert Radcliffe, (Eastman's Academy) 1431
- William Mitchell Moir, (Eastman's Academy) 1421
- Gilbert John Moor Rathbone, 1421 (b 3 Dec 1873, Lt., d 29 Oct 1895 to a revolver accident)
- William Francis Thorp, 1407 (b 13 Sep 1873, Lt. Cdr., retired 3 Oct 1904 non-service, d 28 Jan 191X)
- Philip Elliston Allen, 1390 (b 19 Oct 1873, Lt., d 17 Apr 190X, gastritis)
- Henry Rawdon Veale, 1367
- Michael Linning Henry Melville, 1363 (b 9 Dec 1903, Midshipman, resigned 25 Oct 1892)
- Hugh G.-C. Somerville, 1356
- John F. Grant Dalton, 1333
- Percy William Pontifex, 1330
- W. H. C. S. Thring, 1330
- Hubert Henry Holland, 1324
- Herbert Lefroy Fell, 1317 (b 16 Dec 1873, Lt., resigned 25 Mar 1902, d 19 Jun 1905 at Tambura Bahr el Ghazal)
- Charles Cecil Kerr-Pearse, 1300 (b 12 Mar 1873, Douglas Medal 1896, ret war service Capt.)
- A. E. M. Chatfield, 1293
- Charles Wispington Glover Crawford, 1293
- Arthur William Richmond, 1275 (b 6 Apr 1873, acting Sub Lt., d 11 Feb 1894 at Haslar following football accident)
- Martin Frederic Stapylton, 1271 (b 1 Oct 1873, ret Capt. war service)
- Cecil Francis L. Watson, 1268
- Charles Pleydell Mansel, 1246
- Denis Burke Crampton, 1244
- Sir Malcolm MacGregor, Bart., 1241
- George B. W. Young, (Eastman's Academy) 1235
- Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair, 1222
- Herbert Rogers, 1220 (b 9 May 1873, Lt., d 16 Aug 1896 of pneumonia at Sydney)
- Hugh Thomas Grainger Stack, 1204 (b 10 Jul 1873, Lt., d 9 Dec 1902 at Haslar of meningitis)
- Arthur Kipling Waistell, 1192
- John Harvey, 1188
- Arthur George K. Hill, 1179
- Charles Deane Ricketts, 1179 (b 22 Jul 1873, Sub Lt., 20 Nov 1894 dismissed service sleeping on watch/drink)
- John Edmund Drummond, 1178
- James Uchtred Farie, 1172
- Cyril Gibney L. Owen, 1171 (not in Navy List of April, 1891 or at TNA)
- Henry Strickland, 1168
- Edward George Lowther-Crofton, 1168
- Ernest Algernon Constable, (Eastman's Academy) 1164 (b 27 May 1873, ret Cdr., d 21 Feb 1941)
- Harry Francis Cayley, 1158 (b 3 Jul 1873, ret war service Capt., d 31 Mar 1954)
- Gerald Cator, 1143 (b 20 Feb 1873, Lt. Cdr. emergency list)
- Henry Hugesson Leith, 1142 (not found at TNA)
- Marmaduke Cecil Allenby, 1140 (b 30 Aug 1873, ret war service Capt., d 16 Apr 1932)
- John Barnes Sparks, 1124
- Charles R. N. Burne, 1121
- Cecil E. G. Woollcombe, 1117 (not in Navy List of April, 1891 or at TNA)
- Loftus C. O. Mansergh, 1110
- Percival Henry Warleigh, 1110
- Francis Seal Talman, 1104 (b 4 Mar 1873, Acting Sub Lt., discharged 15 May 1894 failed to pass exams)
- Gerald Fitzgerald Youel, 1097 (b 21 Jan 1874, Lt., resigned 27 Apr 1901 to avoid C.M.)
- Sydney F. S. Rotch, 1094 (b 24 Jan 1873, navigating Capt. ret, d 29 Nov 1932)
- Martin Shee Archer, 1080 (b 5 May 1873, Midshipman, resigned 19 Dec 1890)
- Hugh Edwards, 1071
- Hubert Stansbury, 1070
Civil Cadetship:
- Alan Cameron Bruce, 593
Footnotes
- ↑ "Cadetships in the Navy" (News). The Times. Tuesday, 22 June, 1886. Issue 31792, col F, p. 4.
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