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02-10-09, 12:03
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Naval question(s).
I know naff all about the Navy so perhaps someone could kindly guide me here!
I am looking for a naval service record, don't know if it was Royal Navy or Marines, but I do know the man concerned "got some medals". Did the Marine service award medals? The story is, the man's young son found these medals in a drawer and swapped them with a mate for a dinky car. When his father found out, he went berserk and eventually had to "buy back" the medals from the other child's father. I can't imagine he would have felt so strongly about ordinary service medals? I've had a little searchlet of TNA Naval Records but I don't seem to be getting anywhere. Service would have been between 1911-1933, most probably WW1 but that is a pure guess on my part, except certainly no EARLIER than 1911 - I have him on census. Any tips gratefully received! OC 
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02-10-09, 12:10
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The Royal Marines' service records 1842 - 1925 are on TNA:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/d...ervice Records I think they got WW1 medals but will have to check. I don't think the merchant navy got medals for WW1 but I know they did for WW2.
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02-10-09, 12:11
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Oh, and the Royal Navy service records for the same period are on there too:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/d...=*&queryType=1
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#4
02-10-09, 12:30
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Do you want to give us the name you're looking for, OC, so we can help search? Or you could PM it to me if you don't want to post it up.
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#5
02-10-09, 12:42
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Quote:
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"Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010
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02-10-09, 12:51
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My dad only got ordinary service medals but I would be very upset if someone swapped them for something else
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 Joanie
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02-10-09, 12:58
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Also, he might have just wanted to get the message through to his son that your don't swap other peoples belongings without asking.
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"Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010
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02-10-09, 13:21
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Well, you did ask.....his name was William Alfred Brown(e) or maybe Alfred William Brown(e).
Date of birth SUPPOSEDLY 12 March 1900 but this is open to a lot of doubt and if I have found the correct man on census was more likely 1901, Chelsea - maybe just London. A possible Plymouth connection. He apparently didn't do service in WW2 and was certainly working in a munitions factory in the 40s. He died 1957. (Off topic a bit....I am having great difficulty in extracting information about him from his daughter, who maintains she doesn't know anything about her father's early life. She does, she just doesn't know she does, lol. I was wittering about how it was a shame he didn't do service in WW2, as she could apply for his army records etc. We then moved on to discuss other things about him and she told me a tale about how he and a friend were rowing across a large river during WW2 when they were strafed by a german plane and only escaped by rowing under a bridge. I said "ooh, how did a man born and bred in London learn to row?" and she said "Oh, when he was in the Navy". With immense restraint I pointed out that she hadn't told me he was in the Navy and the fact that he WAS, opens up an entirely new line of research! She said she hadn't thought it was important!) OC
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02-10-09, 14:05
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02-10-09, 19:15
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Thankyou Kate, unfortunately I'm getting the "problem with an image" page! I'll try again in a minute.
Thankyou though. OC
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