navy photo

[RuthieB]

having now re-consulted my 'Manual of Seamanship, 1937, Vol1' I can belatedly amend my post and concur with Salty - a trained something or other - but can't match a badge to the photo. Probably easier to say what it isn't!  Sadly, I can't work my scanner at the moment to post potential matches

RuthieB

[gig]

  thanks everyone for  looking a pirate would have been cool

[Ken_from_Wisbech]

hi all im trying to identify this sailor his picture was keptin a wallet by my late grandad according to my granma he was my grandfathers best friend during the war,dont know if before .
my grandad was in the royal marines the last  places he served was madras rangoon singapore padang parang columbo then blighty on thier way home they were on different ships the ship with the sailor was sunk and he was killed this was i think towards the end of the war , does the badge on his arm give any clues
any help, thank

Hi all

The photo was taken during WW2, when the ship's name was left off the cap tally and only embroded with HMS.

Looking at the badge, and being an ex-mateloe, I would say that he was either a Wireless telegraphist 3rd or 2nd Class, a Sparker, or as someone else said, a Signaller, or Bunting Tosser.  They were the guys that sent morse code using lamps, of signals using flags, or Bunting.

A 'hook' is common languae for an anchor, which is the badge of a Leading Hand and is commonly known as a Hooky.

If there would be stripes, or chevrons like a Corporal in the Army, each stripe detotes 4 years good conduct, the maximum being 3.  It is also said that they represent 4 years of 'undetected crime!'

Hope that helps out a bit.

Ken

[Aussie Doug]

I don't know if it is of any use but I have attached a photo of my father c1943 showing his badge that identifies him as an ASDIC operator (I think) although he has Submarines on his cap I believe this was only for his training period.
(He was released to join up, from the Cheshire Constabulary in 1943 and as he was 6'4" tall Sub's were not built his size he served on in HMS Searcher [convoys] and then HMS Sulffolk [Far East] until 1946)

Best of luck

Aussie Doug

[harribobs]

i know i'm going off topic and my apologies to all

but that's a great photo Doug would you mind if i took out the creases?

[manmack]

doug,thats a sailors uniform,not a RM,i think the gang on here have ID your dads mates rank,a signaller would operate alongside a asdic operator,mack

[Aussie Doug]

Many thanks,

The pictures a treat! my father used to say that as an operator n the Searcher they would have been required to detonate an explosive device (A sea mine!!!!??) to prevent the enemy getting their hands on the ASDIC equipment, a bit extreme I think!

Thanks again, I hope my little bit of info was of help to GIG.

Aussie Doug

[goggy]

Gig,
try http://www.pbenyon.plus.com.
1897Royal Naval Uniform Regulation,s.
No13 shows some ,look for other's that may match the fragment showing,if that is enlarged.
Best o'British!
               Goggy.

[manmack]

without a hook?    his rank would be a pirate then?


Okay then an Anchor 

In actual fact he could be anything from an Ordinary Seaman up to a Leading Hand, he looks young enough to have been an Ordinary Seaman.
salty,me and chris are landlubbers so you will have to excuse us both,i also didnt know what a hook was,but i do now,regards mack
Salty