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Title: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: macmoffat on Monday 12 February 24 19:49 GMT (UK)
I had someone stationed here and after his name there is S.R.R. Can someone tell me what this means please?
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 12 February 24 19:59 GMT (UK)
When were they there?  What rank?
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: Daisypetal on Monday 12 February 24 21:33 GMT (UK)
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Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 13 February 24 07:47 GMT (UK)
Which document does it appear on
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: Kiltpin on Tuesday 13 February 24 16:15 GMT (UK)
Special Reconnaissance Regiment - possibly. 

Regards 

Chas
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: Andy J2022 on Tuesday 13 February 24 16:41 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Kiltpin on Tuesday 13 February 24 16:15 GMT (UK)
Special Reconnaissance Regiment - possibly. 

Regards 

Chas
Only after 5 April 2005 and only for the Army. Since the OP was asking specifically about the Royal Navy (or more probably the Royal Marines), then this almost certainly won't be a reference to any kind of regiment. 
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: tonepad on Tuesday 13 February 24 16:42 GMT (UK)
Royal Navy barracks Chatham closed in 1984.
Special Reconnaissance Regiment was established in 2005.

A date for the document is needed and the trade of the person (seaman, stoker, cook etc.)



Tony
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 13 February 24 16:43 GMT (UK)
Could Mmacmoffat please post a link to the document or a snip of the relevant part of it. 
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: macmoffat on Wednesday 14 February 24 19:44 GMT (UK)
Found in an old Diary Just his name with S.R.R.
c/mx647313
07mess
Collingwood
Block R.N. Barracks
Chatham Diary is  1936 . No occupation.
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: JMB1943 on Wednesday 14 February 24 19:58 GMT (UK)
When my grandfather joined the British Army in 1914, he was an older ex- Regular soldier and he was given a GSSR regimental number.

GSSR = General Service Special Reserve, so I wonder if your man is similarly Special Reserve
(Regular?).

Do you know his age, and if he had prior service in the RN or British Army?

Regards,
JMB
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 14 February 24 20:03 GMT (UK)
Is it definitely SRR? Not SKR?
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: tonepad on Thursday 15 February 24 05:50 GMT (UK)
c/mx647313 is a Royal Navy Service Number:

c = Chatham  home port
m = Others -Artificers, Electrical, Supply etc (trade)
x = engaged after the new pay code of the early 1930s was introduced
and a 4-6 figure number

Long Service (engagement)
12 years plus optional 10 years to qualify for pension


Tony
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: macmoffat on Thursday 15 February 24 18:15 GMT (UK)
Definitely S.R.R. Born 1912 .On further reading of the diary H.M.S. Assistance is mentioned.
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: ShaunJ on Thursday 15 February 24 19:32 GMT (UK)
There's a clue: HMS Assistance was a repair ship. "S.R.R. " could be Special Repair Rating. 
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: macmoffat on Thursday 15 February 24 19:52 GMT (UK)
Thanks  Shaun J. Does this mean that he worked at repairing ships in some form, but as what?
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: tonepad on Thursday 15 February 24 20:18 GMT (UK)
 Special Repair Ratings were created in June 1942 according to the following document:

https://hmsausonia.co.uk/history/the-history-of-the-royal-navys-fleet-repair-ship/


Tony
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: macmoffat on Friday 16 February 24 10:17 GMT (UK)
Thanks Tonepad. Interesting reading. Will carry on with the search. Much appreciated.
Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 16 February 24 11:19 GMT (UK)
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On further reading of the diary H.M.S. Assistance is mentioned

When was that? The old repair ship HMS Assistance was paid off in 1930 and then sat at Portsmouth (used as a machinery store) until she was sold off for scrap in 1937. The Navy had another repair ship named Assistance in 1945/6 but none of this squares with your reference to Chatham dockyard in 1936.

Title: Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
Post by: tonepad on Friday 16 February 24 15:36 GMT (UK)
Is it possible that the diary is actually 1946 instead of 1936?
Are there other entries in the diary which can definitely pinpoint the year?
Is it known if the man was serving in 1946?

or
Is it possible that a 1940s entry was made in a 1936 diary?


Tony