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Richard Peter Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis

Royal Navy promotion sequence and retired-list notice

Publication status

Published, institutionally supported

Direct line · family archive

Identity and service

What the opened records establish

Primary Gazette notices record his confirmation as Sub-Lieutenant with seniority from 1 July 1931, promotion to Lieutenant with seniority from 15 February 1933 and placement on the retired list in 1939. ESPNcricinfo separately records his 1937 first-class appearance for Combined Services.

Life dates
1910–2001
Service
Royal Navy
Rank or role
Lieutenant
Record period
1931–1939 documented sequence
Service number
Not used in the opened dossier
Evidence confidence
Institutionally supported

Units and formations

No unit is added beyond the opened records.

Decorations and distinctions

No decoration is added beyond the opened records.

Name forms in the record

  • • Richard Peter Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
  • • R. P. Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
  • • Richard Borgnis

Service chronology

Dated milestones linked to their evidence

  1. verified01

    Sub-Lieutenant seniority

    R. P. Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis was confirmed from Acting Sub-Lieutenant to Sub-Lieutenant with the stated seniority date.

    The London Gazette
  2. verified02

    Promoted to Lieutenant

    The Admiralty notice records promotion from Sub-Lieutenant to Lieutenant with seniority shown as 15 February 1933.

    The London Gazette
  3. verified03

    Placed on the Royal Navy retired list

    The Gazette records Lieutenant Richard Peter Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis on the retired list.

    The London Gazette

Archival references

Identifiers and source register

Claims not carried into this dossier

  • Reported Royal Naval College, Greenwich education
  • Reported Mediterranean commands
  • Reported MBE

Publication and rights boundaries

Claim boundary: The notices establish rank, seniority and retired-list status; they do not establish the wider family-site account of Mediterranean commands or an MBE.

Rights boundary: No portrait is inferred from a name match; only separately rights-checked family or institutional images may be used.

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