Category:Training Establishment Entrants of January, 1915

One hundred and thirteen candidates were accepted for Naval Cadetships after qualifying examinations for the Royal Naval College, Osborne term of January, 1915.^[1]

Some of the details here are contributed thanks to the research efforts of Jane Cavell, granddaughter of Stuart Brown, who is transcribing his diaries of this period. An informative nugget from this dated 15 January 1916 (just after he returned to Osborne following the Christmas holiday) that "Beckwith, Hadden, Dight, Daunt, Wood^[2], Lysaght^[3] and Gage have been kicked out."

1. James Harold Abernethy (not found at TNA; d 30 Jun 1915 spotted fever^[4])
2. Godfrey Wigram Arkwright
3. John Joseph Arkwright
4. Stephen Romer Ascherson
5. Alexis William Ashley (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
6. Geoffrey Carey Askew
7. Robert Hugh Barnard (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
8. Peter Norman Rose Bartlett (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
9. Charles Edward Beckwith (not found at TNA; Stuart Brown's diary on 15 Jan 1916 notes he'd been kicked out)
10. Charles Reresby Beville
11. Geoffrey Louis Bodoano
12. Thomas William Botley
13. William John Arden Bott (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
14. Eric Philip Arthur Brooks
15. Stuart Brown (his granddaughter, Jane Cavell, is transcribing his diaries, contact email of 20190306)
16. Roger Geoffrey Buckley
17. Edmund Giles Burrows
18. James Donal Whaley Burrows
19. Reginald Thomas Butler
20. Paul Bernard Aloysuis Caruana
21. Harold Daniel Caslon
22. Miles Ambrose Gregory Child
23. Thomas Patrick Murray Cochran (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
24. David Bayley Colley
25. Edward Reignier Conder
26. Harold Spencer Cooper
27. Donald Robert George Crawford (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
28. St. John Cronyn
29. Maxwell Cunningham
30. John Edward Lorne Campbell Currie (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
31. Rhoderick Gordon Daunt (not found at TNA; Stuart Brown's diary on 15 Jan 1916 notes he'd been kicked out)
32. Robert Dalby
33. Francis Thomas Murray Day
34. Norman Vincent Dickinson
35. Garden Milne Hossack Dinsmore
36. George Orrock Dudgeon-Stretton
37. Charles Henry Duffett
38. Arthur Wilfrid Edgecombe (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
39. Robert William Hanmer Everett (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
40. Oliver Fogg-Elliot
41. Frank Forster (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
42. Sydney William Patrick Freme (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
43. Cecil Radford Marshall Frost (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
44. Kenneth Nelson Frost (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
45. Henry Charles Gann
46. Edward Russell Gibson, Lord Ashbourne
47. Jack Hadden (not found at TNA, Midshipman "John Hadden" in Navy List of July 1919)
48. Harold Pitcairn Henderson
49. Colin Brice Hobbs (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
50. William Francis Hollins
51. Richard Herbert Alexander Hunt (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
52. Humphrey Hutchison-Bradburne (listed in The Times as "H. Bradburne")
53. James Percy Ingpen
54. Leslie Windle Lamplough
55. Richard Henry Langton
56. Roger Francis William Leigh (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
57. Evelyn Ivor Roberts Leighton
58. Charles Nugent Lentaigne
59. Melville Eric Leslie (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
60. Ian Campbell Low (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
61. Alexander Munro Lowis (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
62. Richard Pasten Mack
63. Patrick Vivian McLaughlin
64. Hector Roderick Aeneas Macleod
65. Geoffrey Fortescue Mandeville
66. Rodney Guy Wilson Margetts (not found at TNA)
67. Arthur Duncan Merriman
68. Thomas Lee Metters
69. Charles Henry Morris (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
70. Lionel Geoffrey Fergusson Moultrie (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
71. Hugh May Stollery Mundy
72. Trevylyan Michael Napier
73. Moore Dermot Macrorie Neligan (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
74. George Nelson
75. Adlebert William Cust John Nicholson
76. John Nicholson
77. Masters Norman
78. George Edward Nowell
79. Geoffrey Percival Packard
80. Frederick Charles Fetherstonhaugh Parkinson (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
81. Richard Arnold Luard Pears (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
82. Jasper Godfrey Peck (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
83. Derek Churchill Perry (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
84. Thomas Walker Philpott
85. Guy Robert Pilcher
86. Hugh Perceval Price (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
87. Walter Norman Ranken (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919 -- last name may be Rankin)
88. Leopold Edward Rebbeck
89. Patrick Geoffrey Tremayne Rodd
90. John Malcolm Rodgers
91. Richard Cyril Vesey Ross
92. Henry Robert Lee Rushbrooke (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
93. Archibald Boyd Russell
94. Martin Butt Sherwood
95. George Walter Gillow Simpson
96. Cecil Holt Thomas
97. Gerald Hubert Thompson
98. Harry Thorman
99. Clive Gordon Trechmann
100. John Cecil Tremayne (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
101. Roger de Thornton Trevelyan
102. Alan Doyle Bradden Trevor (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
103. Marcus Brooke Vertue
104. Neville David Watts-Russell
105. Gilbert Ridley Waymouth
106. Colin Winterbotham Weedon (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
107. Hugh Volant Wheeler
108. Finch White (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
109. Gervase Albert Whitehead (not found at TNA, Midshipman in Navy List of July 1919)
110. George Kelvin Whitney-Smith
111. Charles Pearce Germon Wills (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
112. John Wrench (not found at TNA or in Navy List of July 1919)
113. Reginald George Denys Wyndham

While not mentioned in The Times, the Service Records of the following men indicate that they, too, may have belonged to this term:

1. Thomas William Anderson
2. Geoffrey Carey Askew
3. Sidney James Robert Bath
4. Richard Mann Bolster
5. Eric James King Bull
6. William Henry Bull
7. Mark Taylor Collier
8. Keith Leslie Dunn
9. Robert Cecil Somers Garwood
10. Clement Edward Glenister
11. Rodolph Cecil Drummond Haig
12. Christopher Joseph Blight Harris
13. Edgar Haslehurst
14. Reginald Cecil Hill
15. William Cornfield Jenks
16. Henry Brynmor John
17. Martin Lawrey
18. James Tait McBride
19. John Arthur Miller
20. Cecil Ivan Nokes
21. Robert Francis Cole Struben
22. Samuel Henry Taylor

More Detail

Jane found a more comprehensive list of the names in the Evening Standard of 24 December 1914, which has allowed me to complete all the names above. I've appended her excellent research here in mildly edited form.

James Harold Abernethy

Abernethy died in his first year at Osborne. There is a death registration in the third quarter of 1915 for a 14 year old James Harold Abernethy in the Cowes district (Isle of Wight FHS index of deaths). According to one website which gives more about his family, he died of 'spotted fever' on 30 June 1915.

Charles Edward Beckwith

Probably born in Devon 1901; with parents there 1911 (father Ernest George Beckwith was a clergyman). Had left Osborne by January 1916 (Stuart Brown's diary) Was serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers by 1924. Numerous newspaper reports of his successes in athletics, especially the shot put.

William John Arden Bott

Born in St Moritz, Switzerland, according to 1911 census when he was at boarding school in Eastbourne. His father, Capt. John Arden Bott of the Royal Fusiliers, died Aug 1917 of heart failure when on active service. William was a Midshipman in September 1917 Navy List and Midshipman in Warspite in the January 1919 Navy List 'Withdrawn from Service at parents' request', 31 May 1919 [Navy List, July 1919]. By November that year was an undergraduate at Cambridge (Cambridge Independent Press, 5 December 1919). Later described as a Cambridge golfing blue. Died December 1934 in Balham hospital, after fracturing his skull. He had fallen and struck his head on the pavement after being hit during an argument outside a public house. The man who had hit him was found guilty of manslaughter.

Kenneth Nelson Frost

b.1901 Moseley, Worcestershire. Electrical engineer (1925 passenger list to New York), overseer in Jamaica (1929, son's birth certificate), life insurance agent (1940 US census - then in Orange Town, Franklin, MA). Died 1963 Jacksonville, Duval, Florida.

Jack Hadden

Seems likely to be the Jack Hadden (son of Francis John & Marian Kate of 18 Onslow Gardens & Ceylon, tea planter) who was born 6 May 1901 and baptised 27 June 1901 at St Peter, Cranley Gardens. Had left Osborne by January 1916 (Stuart Brown's diary) 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Highlanders 1922 (transcription of army list on Fold3). Seconded to the RAF 1925 for 4 years. Flying Officer Jack Hadden was killed along with his wireless operator when their plane crashed near Colchester on 2 April 1928. He was 26 years old.

Roger Francis William Leigh

b.1901 Oxford, son of Rev. Howard Frances Leigh (Vicar of Oxford St Cross or Holywell). He was a Midshipman in the Navy List September 1917; Roger F. W. Leigh, Mid., R.N., entitled to British War Medal according to medal roll. Removed (invalided) 24 Dec 1917 [Navy List, April 1918] Lieutenant in the Indian Army by 1922 [transcription of Indian Army List]. Died in Mallorca on 9 April 1971 according to a probate notice in the Kenya Gazette of 29 Oct 1971.

Frederick Charles Fetherstonhaugh [sp?] Parkinson

With widowed mother in Westward Ho! 1911. Not found in Navy Lists.

Married in Dover district 1926 to Louise M. Whitney (who was born in Manhattan and returned there 1929). Later (before 1945) married Florence Elizabeth Spencer. She was of Chatham, Ontario, in Nov 1945 when he (Sgt F.C.F. Parkinson, RCASC) appears on a New York passenger list along with other Canadian soldiers. His wife died in Langley, British Columbia in 1964. He died in British Columbia in 1968, by which time he had another wife (B.C. death records on FamilySearch).

Finch White

b. 26 July 1901 at 53 Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath (Evening Standard, 5 August 1901), son of Finch and Annie Violet White, baptised 12 October 1901 at Blackheath. Father a surgeon. Aged 9 with mother in Blackheath 1911. Not found in any Navy Lists.

2nd Lieutenant in Liverpool Regiment 1922 (transcript of Army List on Fold3)

'Lieut. 2/ King's Regiment' when he married Nora Elfreda Quigley at Chakrata, Bengal, 4 October 1924 (British India Office records on Findmypast) to be Lieutenant in Indian Army Service Corps (Mechanical Transport) 12 Aug 1926 (London Gazette, 8 Oct 1926). Royal Aero Club aviator's certificate 1930 has photo; was then Lieut in Indian Army Service Corps. Likely remarriage in Bengal in 1940 to Daphne Sheila Gilson [transcript only on Findmypast] Japanese prisoner of war (captured 1942 in Singapore: records on Findmypast) probable sighting on passenger list 1951 London to Kenya (last address in UK was in Jersey). A Major Finch White was appointed as District Revenue Officer, Mombasa District, 1 Nov 1954 (Kenya Gazette, 23 Nov 1954).

Passing out of Dartmouth

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