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ENTRY OF BOY ARTIFICERS.
ENTRY OP BOYS (SEAMAN
CLASS).
GENERAL KEGULATIONS POK THE ENTRY
OP BOYS IN THE ROYAL NAVY.
Admiralty.
1. The age limits are at present 15i to 18 years
2. Boye and Youths are only entered finaUy In the
United Kingdom, and by the following Officers :—
The Rear Admirals of the Royal Naval Barracks
Chatham, Portsmouth, and Devonport;
Commanding Officers of Training Estab-
lishments.
. Candidates may be provisionally entered by Officers
of the Coast Guard, the Recruiting Staff Officers of
Royal Marines atBelfast,Birmingham,Brighton,Bristol
Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, *London, Manchester, New-
castle-on-Tyne. Nottingham, Southampton, and York,
by the Royal Naval Recruiting Officers at Chatham,
Portsmouth, Devonport, Oxford, and *London (East)
and by any other Officers specially authorised by the
Admiralty. They are then sent on to the nearest of
the ships or establislimentB referred to in paragraph 2,
for final entry.
4. Every candidate must satisfy the following con-
ditions :—
(a) He must be of good character.
(b) He must be of robust frame, intelligent, of per-
fectly sound and healthy constitution, free
from any physical defects or malformation,
and not subject to fits.
(c) He must be able (1) to reada short passage from
a Standard VI. Reading Book, or if not avail-
able, from a newspaper ; (2) to write a similar
passage of not more than six lines, slowly read
over and then dictated ; and (3) he must have
a fair knowledge of the first four rules of arith-
metic.
(d) He must be within the prescribed age limits in
force at the time. (See paragraph 1.)
This must be proved by the production of a certificate
of birth, or, when impossible to obtain a certificate, by
a declaration made before a magistrate by his parent
or guardian.
(e) His height and chest measurement must be
sufficient.
(f) Every Boy under 17 years of age must obtain
the consent of his parent or guardian, or
nearest relative to his entering the Navy and
engaging to serve until he shall have com-
pleted 12 years' continuous service from the
age of 18.
6. Candidates are not received from Prisons or
Reformatories.
8. Particulars can be obtained on application by
letter or otherwise to the Officers referred to in para-
graphs 2 and 3, and papers containing information can
be obtained at any Post Office in the United Kingdom.
No Candidate will be accepted whose intelligence,
constitution, aynd physique are not exceptionally good.
The current standard of height and chest measure-
ment may be obtained on application to a Recruiting
Officer.
• Candidates from the London District are examined
on presenting themselves either at the Admiralty Re-
cruiting Office, Great Scotland Yard, S.W. 1, or at
the East London Recruiting Office, 73, The Grove,
Stratford, E. 16.
ENTRY OP BOY ARTIFICERS.
REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY ANB
TRAINING OF BOY ARTIFICERS IN HIS
MAJESTY'S NAVY.
Admiralty,
September, 1917.
ENTET.
1. A limited nrmiber of Boy Artificers will be
entered annually in January and in July for training
tortheratiugof Engine Room Artificer in the Royal
Navy. Candidates will be selected ou the results of
examinations held annually in October for entry in
the following .January ('tvfe paragraph 18 ^ and lii
April for entry in the following July {vide para-
graphs 6 and 15) Candidates must be the sons of
British born parents and must be between the ages
of 15 and 16 years on the—
■"1st January for entry in January. *lst May lor
entry in the July following.
•2. Every Candidate entered must be in good health
and of sound constitution, and ba free, as far as can
be ascertained, from any disease or defect that would
unfit him for the duties of an Artificer in the Royal
Navy. His hearing must be unimpaired, and he
must possess lull normal vision as determined by
Snellen's tests, each eye being separately examined.
3. Candidates will be medically examined at the
Admiralty, 7, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.I, or at a
Naval Port or Establishment or Recruiting Office, or
on oneiot His Majesty's Ships, which will be selected
by the Admiralty as near as possible to their place o£
residence. All Candidates who at the time of their
Medical Examination cannot produce certificates to
the satisfaction of the Examining Officers that they
have been re-vaceiiiated, must be re-vaccinated before
they can be considered eligible for entry.
CoNSEjri ov Parent on Entkt.
4. A successful Candidate on entering as Boy
Artificer must produce the consent, in writing, of his
parent or guardian, or nearest relative, to his enter-
ing the Royal Navj' and engaging to serve for 12
years' continuous service from the age of 18.
Systems of Entey.
5. Candidates are admitted as follows:—
(a) By open competition ; or
(6) On the recommendation of certain Naval
Commanders-in-Chief, on accoimt of Ser-
vice Claims ; or
(c) By competition, limited to candidates recom-
mended by certain Educational Authorities,
(a) Entry by Open Compeiitimi.
6. An open competitive examination is held in Api
each year (for entry in the July following), which isi
conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners at thej
same time and in the same manner as the examin-
ation for Dockyard Apprentices.
7. The vacancies for appointment as Apprentices
to the various trades in His Majesty's Dockyards
:,v{de the Regulations for Dockyard Apprentices) wiU
be partly filled by Candidates at this examination
who fail to obtain appointments as Boy Artificers,
provided they are sufficiently high on the Examin-
ation List, and are eligible in all other respects. If
they wish to be considered Candidates for these
apprenticeships they must make the necessary
application before attending the examination, in the
manner provided by the Regulations lor Dockyard
Apprentices.
8. The List of Candidates for appointments by opei
competition is kept at the office of the Civil Servio*
(Commissioners. All applications for the forms to b(
filled up by persons who wish to compete must b«
sent to the Secretary, Civil Service Commissioilj
Burlington Crardens, London, W. 1, on or alter th«
1st January in each year, and care must be taken t?iai
the Forms when fdled up reacli the Civil Service Coin-
missioners on or before the ist March following (or ill
that date should fall upon a Siinday or public holl-j
day, then on or before the first day thereafter, on^
wtiich their office is open), as no notice will be taken;
of forms received after that date.
* A candidate bom on 1st January or 1st May Is eligible lor entry only In the year In which the 16tfi
annlTeTsary of his birth falls, and not In the year In which he attains the age of 16.