Discharge Reason ?

[weddieD1948]

My father severed for a short while after the first World War on a minesweeper , the reason for his discharge is not clear to us , can anybody help. His service was very short and one family story is the his ship hit a mine whilst clearing and he spent 7 to 9 hours in the water, I can find no evidence for this and HMS Pangbourne actually sank in the 2nd World War.

[Billyblue]

Shore on
Dunoon

Was he picked up  by the "Dunoon" ?


Dawn M

[medpat]

HMS Dunoon not completed until after the war and sunk WW2 1940.

Look at the date of attestation May 1919 - the war was over and they were releasing the men in 1919. Is it as simple as that? Reservists would do basic training.

[horselydown86]

I think the last letter of the D word is a superscript n with an underline, indicating a contraction.

It may be:   Dunstⁿ

While it could mean Dunst(a)ⁿ, I would expect it's a somewhat longer word than that.

[MaureeninNY]

I think it's an abbreviation-demobilisation.

Just looking at the records surrounding his on FMPast they all have similar notations.

Maureen

[Sc00p]

Possibly "shore on Demob(ilizatio)n"?

[horselydown86]

I think it's an abbreviation-demobilisation.

Just looking at the records surrounding his on FMPast they all have similar notations.

That thought also occurred to me, Maureen.  My reservation is that the spacing of the vertical strokes here is such a poor match to the letters:  e-m-o-b

Do the other records look more plausible?

ADDED:

Above comment is particularly in relation to the letters e-m.  The o-b looks alright.

[MaureeninNY]

I think it's an abbreviation-demobilisation.

Just looking at the records surrounding his on FMPast they all have similar notations.

That thought also occurred to me, Maureen.  My reservation is that the spacing of the vertical strokes here is such a poor match to the letters:  e-m-o-b

Do the other records look more plausible?

ADDED:

Above comment is particularly in relation to the letters e-m.  The o-b looks alright.

Well.some records have "demobilised" written out...and some have "Demob".

Maureen

[horselydown86]

Thanks Maureen.  Do they have the Shore on/in part?

If they do then I would think you are probably right, and it's just tired and not very careful writing.