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Cessation of Service, Merchany Navy - Form CSR8
« on: Friday 12 August 11 06:40 BST (UK) »
G'day folks

Still researching my father Duncan Clark, Marine Rngineer with Clan Line up to Oct 1940.

I have his Continuous Certificate of Discharge (No. R178567) which ends on 16/10/1940 when he signs off the "Berwickshire" and then disappears from the land of printed records. There are no further entries or marks on the card

It has been suggested that he was invalided out, in which case I would have expected to find a Form CRS8 or other record of his movement. I have looked at the documents in the National Archive and Southampton Archives but can find no trace of him or the form CRS8.

Can someone please enlighten me about form CRS8 and where it can be found ?

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Ross
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Re: Cessation of Service, Merchany Navy - Form CSR8
« Reply #1 on: Friday 12 August 11 08:13 BST (UK) »
Could he have joined the Royal Navy  or the Royal Australian Navy?
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Re: Cessation of Service, Merchany Navy - Form CSR8
« Reply #2 on: Friday 12 August 11 08:34 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the response.

No, he definitely left the Merchant Marine in some manner and the next time I can find any info he was employed as an Engineer/Surveyor with an insurance company in England. I can only assume that he was invalided out and was classified unfit for active duty as he was only 29.

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Re: Cessation of Service, Merchany Navy - Form CSR8
« Reply #3 on: Friday 12 August 11 08:41 BST (UK) »
The authorities may have wanted him to work in Shipbuilding or ship repairs.     Do not forget that the Ministry of Labour     could direct workers to go where they were most needed.          Have you any idea which city he may have been in?    Liverpool, Glasgow or Belfast possibly?

Try the Merseyside Maritime Museum,  they have loads of archive material.
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