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Offline FWaters

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Which uniform?
« on: Friday 23 October 15 14:44 BST (UK) »
Hi
Please can someone tell me if this is a Merchant Navy or a Royal Navy uniform? 

I think it was MN but my father insists that as his stepfather was only a Donkeyman in the MN he would not have had a uniform.  Is this true?

If it is MN can someone point me in right the direction to identify the cap badge?

Thanks so much.
Fiona
Waters - Hull, Edinburgh(Leith), Glasgow
Hazard - Hull, Lincoln
Whitbread - Lincoln, Buckinghamshire
Hutchison - Edinburgh, Glasgow

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 24 October 15 07:20 BST (UK) »
Looks like a Chief Petty Officer Royal Navy or RNR

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 24 October 15 12:00 BST (UK) »
The cap badge is a bit fuzzy but I don't see the small laurel of a CPO.  I suggest Petty Officer RN

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 24 October 15 12:31 BST (UK) »
Timeframe. ?

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 24 October 15 12:33 BST (UK) »
Same man. ?

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 24 October 15 21:09 BST (UK) »
Hi

As you think Royal Navy then this may apply to his time on HM Rescue Tugs which was 1942-1945.  I guess it was taken about 1945 as in the original picture are his children who would have been around 10 and 5 at the time.
I've never heard any mention of him being a Petty Officer though.
Unfortunately the original is fuzzy too so I can't make out the badge.

Thank you for your replies.
Fiona
Waters - Hull, Edinburgh(Leith), Glasgow
Hazard - Hull, Lincoln
Whitbread - Lincoln, Buckinghamshire
Hutchison - Edinburgh, Glasgow

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 25 October 15 05:15 GMT (UK) »
He could be CPO or PO Royal Naval Reserve or RN, he may have been on Tugs prior to the war and been a  reservist in RNR.

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 25 October 15 09:45 GMT (UK) »
He was in the Merchant Navy from 1938 to 1960, only on HM Rescue Tugs between April 1942 and November 1945.  This is why I queried the uniform.

Thanks for your help.
Fiona
Waters - Hull, Edinburgh(Leith), Glasgow
Hazard - Hull, Lincoln
Whitbread - Lincoln, Buckinghamshire
Hutchison - Edinburgh, Glasgow

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Re: Which uniform?
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 25 October 15 10:18 GMT (UK) »
When was the Royal Fleet Auxiliary formed?

HM rescue tugs were perhaps manned by the Merchant Navy?
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