Royal Marine Light Infantry Records Query

[Stambo]

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=8192343&queryType=1&resultcount=4

Sharon heres his record..there could be others at Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton.
Will ask a contact RM expert if he has anything.

Just a quick question has he any Barnsley/Yorkshire connections?

Also with a service number like that i suspect he was at Gallipoli with the Royal Marines.

Ady

Hi Andy,
Your question about Barnsley intrigues me. I am looking for information on an uncle Pte. Robert Stanyon No. 756 who enlisted in Jan. 1915 to RMLI Plymouth Div. Victory RM Bde. He served at Gallipoli where he was wounded resulting in the loss of an eye and was invalided out in Aug. 1916.
So far I have only found his ADM 159/176 record and wish to try to locate exactly where and when he was wounded. Any guidance you may offer will be much appreciated.
Many thanks, Stambo

[mmm45]

Stambo

24 Osbourne St Barnsley?  Mum Elisabeth?

Have you downloaded his Service Record off the NA site?

I have a contact who has supplied me with the info you are after..will post if this is/was your uncle.
Ady

[Stambo]

Spot On Andy.
Elizabeth was the name of my Dad's Mum (Nee Rudd), Robert (Uncle Bob) was the eldest son who elisted in RMLI while my Dad enlisted in the 2nd. Btn. Yorks & Lancs (Barnsley Pals) - both in Jan. 1915. Uncle Bob left Barnsley between WW1 and WWII to live and work in Huddersfield where he had a daughter Ruth and a son Alan.
Unfortunately we lost touch and I don't know the current family situation.

I have been researching my Dad's records to add detail to the momentos I have eg. Soldiers' Book, medals, photos, mess fork, shaving mirror, Victory March notes etc. Reading "The Pals" book it occured to me that Uncle Bob must have been wounded about the time my Dad was fighting in the Somme tragedy on 1st. July 1916; therefor the reason for my intrusion into Sharon's posts (Please forgive me Sharon).
I look forward to receiving any info you are able to give me Andy,
Sincerely. Roy.
ps. Yes I did download his "Register No. 756" record but it contains no detail of locatios - only dates of embarkation and discharge.

[mmm45]

Source  Thanks to : John from the Great War Forum ..Expert on RMLI 

PLY 756/S Pte. Robert STANYON Collier. b. Peterboro, Northants 21/8/1890.
Enlisted: Manchester 5/1/15 age 24. Ht: 5ft. 4 & 1/2ins. Fresh complexion. Eyes: Brown. Hair: Brown. Chest: 35ins.
Wgt: 9st. 6lbs. Ply. Div. UK D Coy. 5/1/15 - 8/5/15. Passed Musketry 2nd Class at Browndown 29/3/15.
Embarked: HMS Victory (RM Bde.) 9/5/15 - 21/7/16 - Plymouth / 2nd RM Bn.
Admitted to 2nd FA Cape Helles ex-Po. Bn. 23/6/15 - BW Head to clearing hosp. 'W' Beach same date.
Wounded Dardanelles 23/6/15 GSW head - to No.11 CCS. To Hosp. Ship 24/6/15.
Admitted to RN Hosp. Malta 3/7/15 Bullet wound head. To HMT Egmont at Malta 19/7/15.
To Base Mustapha, Alexandria 26/7/15. Embarked HMT Saturnia at Alexandria 3/8/15 to rejoin unit.
Joined 2nd RM Bn. Dardanelles 8/8/15. Prob. 2nd RM Bn. Stavros. Embarked HMT Briton at Mudros 7/5/16.
Disembarked Marseille 12/5/16. To 6th London FA 21/6/16 Gunshot wound L.eye. (loss of sight ADM104/147)
To 26th Gen. Hosp. Etaples 23/6/16. Invalided to UK 4/7/16 aboard HS St. Denis.
Granted EA in RM Bde. Comce. Est. Hd Qrs. 22/7/16.
Ply. Div. UK 22/7/16 - 16/8/16 - Discharged: Invalided from RN Hosp. Plymouth for "Ruptured Globe L.eye".
SWB No. RN968 issued 20/10/16.
Next of Kin & address on discharge: Father, Robert, 24 Osbourne St. Barnsley. (Mother, Elizabeth) Ht: 5ft. 6ins.
Gen. Character: VG Sober. (14/15 Star, BWM & Vic. issued early 1920's) Paid War Gratuity £8 14/3/19.



http://freespace.virgin.net/jack.clegg/barnsley%20marines.htm

Have a look at Plymouth Short Service Marines on the above link...Robert features

Ady

[Stambo]

Hi ADY (Forgive the Andy error),
Please accept my sincere thanks to you and John your "Contact" for giving me the detailed account of Uncle Bob's service and movements, I can now read the War Diaries and reports to expand our knowledge of his injury.
I will try to contact Alan, Bob's son, and pass on to him and his family all the history of Bob's service.
"Hats off" to RM LI Records for maintaining the information - I was not so lucky with Dad's service record as it appears to have been lost during the WW II bombing of the Records Office; all I found was his Medal Card
Thankfully "Barnsley Pals" gave me a very detailed history of the 2nd Btn. from raising to disbandment in Jan 1918 when Dad joined the 2nd. DLI
Keep on with your splendid work and service to we descendants of the Veterans,
Roy ;
Hello Ady,
I am pleased to let you know that I contacted my cousin Alan and gave him the detailed records of his Dad's service, wounding, evacuation and discharge. Alan had the understanding that the wound occurred in France but my Dad told me of the Dardanelles; the evac record shows that after treatment at the Cas. Clearing Stn.and Field Amb. at Cape Helles he was transferred to a field hospital in France, from where he was repatriated - hence the misunderstanding.
Again, many, many thanks.
Roy

[penilelly]

I have been searching for my grandfather's Royal Marine records & have just accesed them via Fleetairarm museum. He served on HMS Carnarvon & was involved in the battle of the Falklands in 1915. His name is James John Pearce, private although he was promoted to corporal in 1918/19 when he was on the Hood. Does anyone have knowledge about either Carnarvon, Bellona or Hood?

Penilelly

[mmm45]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bellona_(1909)

Heres Bellona when was he onboard? he may have been at Jutland

Carnavon here http://www.vlib.us/medical/hanks/index.htm

Ady

[penilelly]

Thanks Ady, I have read the extract from Hanks, very interesting. My grandfather was on the Bellona 1918-1919, so after war ended. He served on Carnarvon from1913-1917.

Penny

[Juliet34]

Evening All,

Always had family rumours that one of my relatives had died in Gallipoli and finally tracked it to a great great uncle, can I find out more details on how he was KIA? Details as follows:

Name, Rank & Service No.
FRANK HERBERT CRAFTS
Colour Sergeant
Service Number: PO/6400
Unit, Regiment, Country of Service Portsmouth Bn. R.N. Div
Royal Marine Light Infantry
United Kingdom
Date of Death
Died 06 May 1915
41 years old
Commemorated at
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 2 to 7.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)

He enlisted in Derby on 7 July 1892 and re-engaged 7 July 1904. He was promoted corporal on 25 October 1896, to sergeant on 19 January 1900 and to colour sergeant on 27 February1910. He was awarded the RN Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, effective 7 July
1907. He was discharged on 6 July 1913
having completed length of service..
He was mobilised 2 August 1914 and drafted to the Portsmouth Bn. He was at Dunkirk 19 September 1914-2
October 1914 and served in the defence of Antwerp from 3 October 1914-13
October 1914. He served in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 28 February 1915-3 May 1915.
Papers missing from ADM/157/2661.
RND Casualties of the Great War, 'All Portsmouth Battalion casualties at
Gallipoli are recorded on CWGC as having died on 6 May 1915. However, it is most likely that they were killed in the charge up Razor-Back Hill, Monash Valley, on 3 May 1915.

Thanks
James