Author Topic: Naval uniform identification please  (Read 1563 times)

Offline Salty

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 846
    • View Profile
KENT-CANTERBURY & DEAL areas.  Brient-Hitchcock-Reynolds-Pittock;O'Neill-Ireland-Whitman-Harvey-Martin-Norris
ESSEX-DEDHAM- Hitchcock
HANTS-BASINGSTOKE, PRESTON CANDOVER & surrounding areas, Mills-Whitman-Marshall-Whitear-Hall-Patience-Burke-Bulpit-Wise-Marlow-Page - Pragnell.
SOMERSET-FROME area, Marshall. Dredge.
WILTSHIRE-HORNINGSHAM area-Marshall
ABERDEEN-Middleton-Milne-Cruickshank-Stevenson-Ogg

Offline Winterbloom21

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,006
    • View Profile
Re: Naval uniform identification please
« Reply #10 on: Monday 07 November 11 18:47 GMT (UK) »
Ashazoe - it's the location of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and all the archives relating to RN NCOs up to 1925 are now kept there.    If you want anything later, you have to go to the Ministry of Defence and they will only release them to a spouse or parent for free (difficult if you're researching your grandfather or above!) otherwise it costs £30.       I think the fee for the FAAM is about £25, but they give you the whole caboodle, including the list of every ship your relative served on and when.

When I contacted them they were very helpful and actually went out of their way to give me something that wasn't strictly speaking within their criteria.    The member of staff there looked up all the Navy Lists up to my grandfather's retirement in 1945 to see his promotion dates and included that information too.   I thought that was really nice of them.
Toomebridge, County Antrim: Devlin
Toomebridge and Cavan:  McCormick
Glasgow, Wolverhampton, Shropshire:   Hill
Lurgan Co. Armagh:  Malone, Dumigan, McCourt, McGill
St. Pancras, and Poplar, London: Serjeant, Heald
Brookborough Co. Fermanagh:  Carmichael, Tierney
Staffordshire:  Cook
Isle of Wight:   Parkman
Warwickshire:  Kinchin
Cork: Kennedy, Ahern, Deliere

A British Islander, born Dublin of Irish/Anglo roots. Ancestors have crossed and recrossed the Irish sea in every generation.

Offline mmm45

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 8,230
    • View Profile
Re: Naval uniform identification please
« Reply #11 on: Monday 07 November 11 18:58 GMT (UK) »
With that extra 10 yrs to play with id revisit the seamans lists on the NA closest fit I can see a lad from Bow but the K Number IIRC is for Stokers branch.
He looks to have 4 years overseas chevrons on so dates of birth is debateable?? 1899 would but him at approx 15 on outbreak of war

Echo the rep of the FAAM Staff they were excellent to me

Ady
Lowe(Lower Gornall-Castleford)
Blackburn (Castleford)
Sidwell(Ledsham)
Fairburn(Hartshead)
Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

Offline Ashazoe

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 22
    • View Profile
Re: Naval uniform identification please
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 08 November 11 02:44 GMT (UK) »
 will try all this Thanks Everyone
McNamara Clare ,Tasmania New Zealand;
ArmourGibralter,Glasgow;
Goodbey Tasmania;
evens Tasmania;
MacDonald Fodderty Ross Shire;
Sinclair Southshields,Westoe, Durham;
Galton Dorset,Lancashire;
McLean Ross Shire;
Warburton Plymouth,Lancashire;
Tennet Durham;
Fisher Durham;
Surtees  Durham;
Grainger Northumberland ,New Zealand;
Cosgrove  Clare;
Grace Tipperary;
Dixon Northumberland;
Laverick  Durham ;
Kendall  ;
Rutherford NewcastleonTyne;
 McGrath Dunedin, Victoria, Tipperary