Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy. – in the House of Commons at on 8 March 1939.
Mr John Parker
, Romford
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the number of officers entered in each branch of the Navy, respectively, last year, with the total; and the number in each branch from universities, public schools, preparatory schools, and promoted from the lower deck, under the early age promotion schemes, and the totals?
Mr Geoffrey Shakespeare
, Norwich
As the information involves a table of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the Official Report.
| NAVAL OFFICERS. | ||
| Entries in the calendar year 1938. | ||
| (1) | Dartmouth Cadets | 131 |
| (2) | Special Entry Cadets | 168 |
| (3) | Direct Entry Cadets | 21 |
| (4) | Promotions to Acting Sub-Lieut. And Acting Sub-Lieut. (E) direct from lower deck | 24 |
| (5) | Engineer Officers entered from the Universities | 1 |
| (6) | Artificer Apprentices promoted to Cadet (E) | 4 |
| (7) | R.N.R. transferees | 120 |
| (8) | Paymaster Cadets | 40 |
| (9) | Medical Officers 1st appointments | 35 |
| (10) | Dental Officers 1st appointments | 15 |
| (11) | Instructor Officers 1st appointments | 6 |
| (12) | Warrant Officers, Executive Branch | 131 |
| (13) | Warrant Officers, Engineer Branch | 62 |
| (14) | Warrant Officers, Accountant Branch | 19 |
| (15) | Warrant Officers, Medical Branch | 4 |
| (16) | Schoolmasters | 35 |
| (17) | Air Branch transfers from R.A.F. | 105 |
| (18) | Air Branch Entries from civil life | 138 |
| 1,059 | ||
Notes.—Of the foregoing the officers at (1) are entered from preparatory schools; those at (2), (8), (18) and (19) are from public or secondary schools; those at (3) from the Nautical College, Pangbourne, Worcester and Conway; the officers at (5), (9), (10), (11), (2) and some of those at (16) are entered from the Universities.
