Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of September, 1868
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Thirty-seven of sixty candidates for Naval Cadetships were accepted after competitive examinations.[1]
Those with marked with an asterisk have names I have not completely discovered. I presume this list is in order of merit in entrance exam scoring, but it was not explicitly stated.
The source did not contain information on their previous schooling.
- George Cartwright
- George Langford
- Francis Edward Janverin Tottenham
- Walter Pigot
- Henry James Daniel Laxton
- Robert Horace Walpole
- William Hughes Hallett Montresor
- Arthur C. A. Baron*
- Lord Muskerry
- Frederick Sidney Pelham
- Frederic Edward Errington Brock
- Frederick Palmer Graves
- George Sackville Sinclair Wemyss
- Arthur Henry Loring
- George Hext
- Louis R. Northey*
- Arthur Horatio Shirley
- Alexander Meldrum
- R. de la P. B. Pierce*
- W. M. Innes*
- Frederick Slight
- John Martin Stokes
- Philip Arthur Bentley
- Wilson Noble Hoare
- A. R. Newburgh*
- Joseph Hugh Pennyfather Thackwell
- Henry Evans
- Charles Goodhart May
- Charles Holcombe Dare
- Bernard Dickinson
- Gilbert de Hoghton
- Reginald Purves Cochran
- James Augustus Paterson Robeson
- Ian Mackenzie Fraser
- Mortimer Keppel Wodehouse
- Mansel Young
- Walter W. Pownall*
The Service Record of Keppel Wade clearly indicates that he, too, was in this term.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Military And Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 26, 1868; pg. 7; Issue 26213.
Pages in category "H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of September, 1868"
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