Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1888

The following candidates were accepted as naval cadets for the January, 1888 term of Britannia, in the following order of merit in marks scored in the intake examinations held over several days, starting on 30 November 1887.^[1]

1. Frederic Aubrey Whitehead, 1528
2. Francis Clifton Brown, 1508
3. Hugh Keith Arbuthnot, 1373
4. Richard Huth Walters, 1349
5. Henry Charles Russel Boucher, 1302
6. Guy Campbell Clarke, 1283
7. William Johns Beckett Law, 1270
8. Reginald Abercrombie Willis, 1269
9. Charles H. R. Atkinson, 1259
10. Percy Arthur Robarts, 1233
11. Charles Claude Peatty, 1231
12. Charles William Trousdale, 1220
13. George Trewby, 1214
14. Robert Gordon Douglas Dewar, 1208
15. Valentine Egerton Bagot Phillimore, 1206
16. Archibald Cochrane, 1201
17. Charles Edward Chapman, 1198
18. Reginald Thomas Forrester, 1186
19. Frederick William Kinahan, 1177
20. Nithsdale Carleton Atkinson Moore, 1169
21. Barnard Roger Stuart Winter, 1166
22. Arthur Gainsford Warren, 1149
23. Alfred Astley Ellison, 1147
24. Richard Faulkner Herbert Hartland-Mahon, 1144
25. Hugh Powell Evan Tudor Williams, 1136
26. John Walter Elmslie Townsend, 1135
27. Ernest George William Davidson, 1133
28. Patrick Spencer, 1124
29. Charles Donald Graham, 1122
30. Walter Gordon Wilson, 1107
31. Percival Augustus Henderson Brown, 1082
32. Christopher O. Durrant, 1069
33. Francis May, 1066
34. Henry John Montague Rundle, 1064
35. James Hartley Dathan, 1042
36. Wyndham Lerrier Bamber, 1040
37. Herbert Cayley, 1039 (tie)
38. George Walker Mason, 1039 (tie)
39. Charles Lachlan Maclean, 1029
40. Harold Escombe, 1023
41. Christopher Russell Payne, 1006 (tie)
42. George Halliday Brown, 1006 (tie)
43. Henry Tryon, 1001
44. John Henry Loftie, 998
45. Alfred Barnett Barker, 995
46. Henry Willcox Osburn, 968
47. Malcolm C. Farrington, 967
48. William Leslie Elder, 958
49. William Herbert Grieve, 954
50. Francis E. Blackwood, 953
51. Cecil Halsted France-Hayhurst, 949
52. Patrick James Boyle, 933
53. Cyril Asser, 931 (tie)
54. Basil Stratford Noake, 931 (tie)
55. Clarence Alban Fulcher, 930
56. Charles Richard Wynn Brewis, 925
57. Henry Ludovic Drummond, 882
58. Cyril Beauchamp Hampshire, 880
59. Sydney Ernest Martin, 874

I am unable to precisely identify the four unlinked names above.

According to his service record, John Ernest Troyte Harper joined the term a little late – in March, 1888 – and passed out with the others.

In addition, Arthur Kenneth Macrorie was accepted as a Colonial Cadet, scoring 750 marks.

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