Midshipman
A midshipman is an officer cadet, or a commissioned officer. They are the lowest rank of officer in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies. Commonwealth countries which use this rank are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Kenya. Before 1968, it was used by the Royal Canadian Navy. But it was replaced with that of naval cadet upon the making of the Canadian Forces.
Midshipman Media
Midshipman of the Royal Navy (c. 1799), by Thomas Rowlandson
Midshipman Henry William Baynton aged 13 (in 1780), by Thomas Hickey
Portrait of Midshipman John Windham Dalling (c. 1800), by George Henry Harlow
Midshipmen George Drewry, Wilfred Malleson, and Greg Russell in April 1915.
Midshipman Theodorus B. M. Mason of the United States Navy (c. 1868)
Royal Navy midshipman's insignia
Updated New insignia for a Canadian Navy's Naval Cadet
rank insignia of aspirant (Official Cadet) of the French Navy.
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