Admiralty Portsdown, Portsmouth Apprentices Roll of Honour

The Portsdown site of the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment, which is the name most people will remember it by, saw the first buildings being erected in 1974 but apprentices were first recruited for the establishment at Witley in Hampshire and when the workshops were completed in 1949/50 they were transferred to their new parent site.

This Roll is of all the apprentices who, for historical reasons, were trained at the site. There may be the odd error and we will be very pleased to hear of them so that corrections can be made. We are always on the look-out for ex-apprentices so that their details can be recorded and available for anyone who wishes to make contact in the future. If you have information or know anything about apprentices not included, please send this to pham2144@aol.com. There is also a Facebook site at ASWE Link-up

Wherever a surname is marked with an asterisk (*), this means that further information is available.

1947 entry - John Bryant, John Foote, John Goulter, Alan Pannell, *David Wells and A.N. Other.

1949/50 entry - David Cresswell, Raymond Bone, John Bryant, *Richard William Cross, Frederick Eley, Kenneth Gillmore, Brian Hoskins, Peter Linnett,    ------ McCarthy, Brian Pratt,  Frederick Neal, *Keith Pratt, *Robin Stillwell.

Due to lack of records, it has not been possible to allocate which years the individual apprentices commenced their training.

1951 entry - *Brian Ballantyne, *Melvyn Barfoot, *Philip Braycotton, *David Burrell, Donald Gazzard, Michael Mee, Alan Moore, *Stewart Muggeridge, Dennis Pratt, *Peter Stanton, Leonard Otway Wilkinson, John Wills and Brian Withers.

1952 entry - Brian Evill, *Philip Hammond, John Lawes, *Trevor Mortimer and William Smith.

1953 entry - John C. Baits, *Rex Bradford, Trevor Clay, Ernest C.D. Coates, *Eric Fagot, David Edward Hammond, *Christopher Laming, *Ronald Alllen Pryce, *John Ross and Ronald Spencer.

1954 entry -No details have been found for this intake.

1955 entry - John Brooks, *Anthony James Grant, H.L. Jenkinson, Peter James Ross and *Brian E. Spencer.

1956 entry - Murray Gorman, Leonard Hayward, Leonard Marchant, John R. McCormick, Robert N. Milner, Roy Victor Sampson, David John Sansom and Brian Tyler.

1957 entry - Colin Alford, David John Cobb, Alan Frampton, Daniel Gilbert, John Brian Hennessy, Peter Hicks, Derek Alan Knight, *Anthony William Lang, *Dennis Lee, *David Arthur Liddle, *Barry Leonard Moncomb, *James Ernest Morris, *Kenneth James Nash, *Ronald Andrew Palmer, Brian Stanley Pinhorn, Peter George Smith and*Roderick Harry Tracey.

1958 entry - *Dennis Allen, Dennis Michael Hicks, *Keith Frederick Milton, David alfred Moor, *Roger Arthur New, Alan David Purdy, Keith Rodney Regnard, Alan Ernest H. Smith and Edward Thorn.

1959 entry - Ian J. Brothers, Keith W. Burton, *Barrie M. Christie, *John Anthony Greenland, *Peter William Greenleaf, Barry Keith Jenner, *Robert Newman, Michael David Orchard, Malcolm Ronald Perchard, *David William Pratt and David Frederick Reed.

1960 entry - Kenneth R. Andrews, Graham I Brown, *Graham L. Barker, Michael Cole, *Richard D. Coles, E.C. Coombes, *Harold R. Gibling, Nigel John Kennett, *Dennis William Ling, *Terence Rittey, *Christopher Ronald Slater, *Robin Charles Smith, *Roger Michael Smith and *Barrie Upton.

1961 entry - Robert D Cochrane, R.F. Convine, Christopher John Cooper, Dennis J. Dodds, Reginald James Hackett, Clive James Harris, Neville Hillyer, Colin William Matthews, *Donald Wilfred Raven, *Richard Stock,, Barry Leslie Stubbs and George Malcolm Westcombe.

1962 entry - R. Chaplin, Kenneth R. Critchett, R.C. Downer, Grahame P. Giles, Michael Johnson, Nigel John Kennett, Geoffrey Leach, Alan May-Waters, Roger William McCarthy, Derek Hayden Morgan, David John Reynolds, Christopher Wade Robins, Michael Robert Russell and Terry Keith Smith.

1963 entry - *Stephen Beard, *F.M. Bertie, Trevor Chalmers, Peter Alfred Farley, *William E. Fountain, Laurence Felix Kent, Peter Kynvin, John William Powell, *Ronald Allen Price, Colin David Sewell, *Thomas Michael Slight, and Derek George Terry.

1964 entry - *Alan Blamire, Lawrence Cluer, Paul Dean, Daviod G. Evans, David J. Gall, Alan Robert Halstead, Mark Francis Hunter, *Philip George Sidney Kerry, William Richard Nichols, David Russell, Robert James Sorrell, Richard Leslie Sparks, John Reginald Stammers.

1965 entry - Roderick Algie, Ronald Ball, David Best, Philip Buckeridge, Graham P. Burrell, R.H. Dix, John Dixon, James Franklin, Michael William Graham, *Jeffrey Mark Hassall, David Ernest Hill, R. Jenkins, Peter Arthur Jenkins, *Richard Philip Jury, Richard John Kinch, *Martin Lee, *Stuart John Percy, Peter Perrett, John Poingestre, *Ian Malcolm Renouf, Brian Ernest Sampson,Richard Arthur Sharp, Anthony James Thomas, Raymond James Thurgood, *Roger Turner.

1966 entry - C.G. Alexander, Stephen E. Baulcomb, *David John Biscoe, C.D.M. Brown, *Roger M. Brown, Graham Peter Chilcott, *Anthony C. Dunford, *Terence C. Edington, Peter John Goddard, Peter John Gofton, *Malcolm William Hammond, *Raymond Lines, Martin Jack Mason, Richard McCarthy, Alan John Mountifield, John Francis Mullins, Stephen Palmer, Stephen Clifford Pearson, Brian Frank Pile, Roderick Pullen, Brian Victor Rogers, Philip John Skeens, John Edwin Southam, Stuart James Vacher.

1967 entry - Neil John Barron, James A.Butler, Trevor A. Chalmers, Alan John Clarke, Dennis C. Clarke, *John A. Colbourne, Rodney A. Dinnage, P.G.C. George, David Charles Goddard, Stephen John Guy, Richard Thomas Hill, Richard George Hunt, Martyn Ernest Keil, Robert Alexander Kennedy, Michael Jenneth Leary, David Martin Roberts, Barrty John Stelling, Terence John Twine, Clive Leslie Wakefield, Dennis Peter Williams, *Roy Scott Williams,*Keith Trevor Wollen, *Derewk Richard Wye, Venon Young.

1968 entry - *James G. Barron, Paul J. Barton, *Ronald A. Cotterell, *John E. Cowley, *Christopher Dawkins, Martin William Grimble, *James Victor Hassall, Stephen Ronald Hunt, Leslie John Ives, *Roderick S. MacGregor, John Francis Mullins, David I. Quinn, Antony Harold Shaw, Nicholas Wiulliam Walker, Leslie Wallin, Ralph Weller, *Gordon H. White.

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