14 YO Batch, Royal Engineers
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The purpose of this page is to list the Gentleman Cadets who passed out together from the Royal Academy, Woolwich on 2 February 1926, from here went to the Young Officer Course at Chatham and then went on to have careers as regular officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers.
They all spent a year at Cambridge University.
They were referred to collectively as a YO Batch (for Young Officer) or JO Batch (for Junior Officer), and given a number, but also named Jones, after the cadet who came top in the order of ranking, in this case C. P. Jones who subsequently became General Sir Charles Jones , Chief Royal Engineer and Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea
War Office, 16th April, 1926.
REGULAR FORCES. The Commns., dated 2nd Feb. 1926, of the undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets from the Royal Military Academy, notified in the Gaz. of the 2nd Feb, 1926, are antedated to 3rd Sept. 1925, but not to count for ret. pay, or pay and allowances, prior to 2nd Feb. 1926
CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.
- Charles Phibbs Jones GCB CBE MC (1906-1988) General , Chief Royal Engineer, Governor of Royal Hospital Chelsea
- John McCormick Smith,
- Clement Alfred Swetenham MC RE (1906-1983)
- Edward Francis Rowan Stack.
- Ronald Walton Urquhart. Maj-Gen
- Patrick Lionel Kirwan OBE. † 1944 in Italy
- Arthur William Granville Dobbie. † 1944 in Italy
- Arthur Terence de Rhé-Philipe.
- Campbell Aubrey Kenneth Wilson.
- John Robert Crosse Hamilton.
- John Cory Garwood.
- Mark Chandos Auberon Henniker (1906-1991)
- Edwin Ramsay Rowbotham.
- Arthur Baldwin Scrase.
- Philip William Edward Leslie Dunsterville (1906-1979)
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