Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1881

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Taken from The Times.[1]

  1. Robert Warren Johnson, 1,362
  2. Harry Louis d'Estoteville Skipwith, 1,349
  3. George Holmes Borrett, 1,322
  4. Philip Wylie Dumas, 1,293
  5. Cecil Frederick Dampier, 1,261
  6. Thomas Jackson, 1,241
  7. Richard Daintree Shaw, 1,224
  8. Alexander Percy Davidson, 1,194
  9. William Driffield, 1,191
  10. William Drummond Church, 1,189
  11. James Henry Chapman, 1,185
  12. George Lionel Grover, 1,174
  13. Thomas Charles Smyth, 1,174 (tie)
  14. Cecil James Reid Livingstone Learmonth, 1,163
  15. Basil Hew Fanshawe, 1,148
  16. Robert Falcon Scott, 1,141
  17. George Robert Mansell, 1,122
  18. William Wynter, 1,078
  19. Maurice Woollcombe, 1,068
  20. Alexander Gillespie, Colonial Cadet

When four candidates who had been nominated for cadetships failed to pass the examination, and another was unable to take his place owing to ill-health, cadetships were given to the five candidates occupying the highest places on the list of those who passed the test.[2]

  1. Edmond Hyde Parker, 1,043
  2. Hastings Frank Shakespear, 1,011
  3. Henry George Glas Sandeman, 1,002
  4. Allan Frederic Everett, 994
  5. Randle Arthur Bootle Wilbraham, 940

Footnotes

  1. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 27 June 1881. Issue 30231, col E, p. 8.
  2. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 29 June 1881. Issue 30233, col D, p. 7.
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