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ENTRY OF BOY ARTIFICERS.
ENTRY OF BOYS (SEAMAN
CLASS).
GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY
OF BOYS IN THE ROYAL NAVY.
Admiralty.
1. The age limits are at present 15J to 18 years
2. Boys and Youths are only entered fincUy in the
United Kingdom, and by the following Officers :—
The Rear Admiral of the Roy*l Naval Ba-racks
Portsmouth ; the Commodores of the Royal
Naval Barracks, Chatham and Devonport;
Commanding Offleers ol Training Estab-
lishments.
3 Candidates may ba provisionally sntersd by Officers
of the Coast Guard, the Recruiting Staff Officers of
Royal Marines at Belfa3t,Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol
Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, *London, Manchester, New
jistle-on-Tyne. Nottingham, Southampton, and York,
by tne Koyal Naval B.ecruiting 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 establishments referred to in paragraph 2,
for final entry.
(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 (l) to read a 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 r< ad
over and then dictated; and (8) he must have
a fair knowledge of the fire; four rules of arith-
metic.
(d) He must be within the prescribed age limits in
force at the time. (Sec paragraph 1.)
This must be proved by the production of a CBrtificate
of birth, or, when impossible to obtain a certificate, by
a declaration made before a magistrate by his parent
or guardian,
(e) Hie 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 1 8.
6. Particulars can be obtained on application by
letter or otherwise to the Officers referred to in para
.graphs 2 and 3, and pipers containing information can
be obtained at any Post Office in the United Kingdom.
No Candidate will be accepted whose intelligence,
constitution, and physique are not exceptionally good.
The currecr, standard of height and cheBt measure-
ment may be obtained on application to a RecruiLng
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 Grcve,
Stratford. E. 16.
ENTRY of BOY ARTIFICERS.
REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY AND
TRAINING OF BOY ARTIFICERS IN HIS
MAJESTY'S NAVY.
A ilmiralty,
May, 1918.
Entry.
1. A limited number of Boy Artificers will be
entered annually in January and in July for training
for the rating of Engine Room Artificer in the Royal
Navy. Candidates will be selected on the results of
examinations held annually in October for entry in
the following January {vide paragraph IX. a..d In
April for entry in the following July (vide para-
graphs 6 and 151 Candidates must be the sons of
British born parents ana must be between the ages
of 15 and 16 years on the —
*lst January for entry in January. *lst May for
entry in the July following.
'£. Every Candidate entered must be in good health
and of sound constitution, and be free, as far as can
bo ascertained, from any disease or defect that would
unfit him for the duties of an Artificer in the Royal
Navy. His hearing must bo unimpaired, and he
must possess full 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 .1, or at a
Naval Port or Establishment or Recruiting Office, or
on oneiof His Majesty's Ships, which will be selected
by the Admiralty as near as possible to their place of
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-vaccinated, must be re-vaccinated before
they can be considered eligible for entry.
Consent oe Parent on Entry.
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 Navy and engaging to serve for 12
years' continuous service from the age of 18.
Systems of Entry.
5. Candidates are admitted as follows :—
(a) By open competition; or
(b) On the recommendation of certain Naval
Commanders-in-Chief, on account of Ser-
vice Claims ; or
(c) By competition, limited to candidates recom-
mended by certain Educational Authorities.
(a) Entry by Open Competition.
6. An open competitive examination is held in April
each year (for entry in the J uly following), which is
conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners at the
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
'^vide the Regulations for Dockyard Apprentices) will
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 for Dockyard
Apprentices.
8. The List of Candidates for appointments by open
competition is kept at the. office of the Civil Service
Commissioners. All applications for the forms to be
filled up by persons who wish to compete must be
sent to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission,
Burlington Gardens, London, W. 1, on or after the
1st January in each year, and care must be taken that
the Forms when filled up reach the Civil Service Com-
missioners on or before the 1st March following i or if
that date should fall upon a Sunday or public holi-
day, then on or before the first day thereafter, on
which their office is open), as no notice will be taken
of forms received after that date.
* A candidate born on 1st January or 1st May is eligible for entrv only In the year in which the 16th
anniversary of hie birth fallB, and not In the year In which he attains the age of 18.