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On Royal Navy seaman record does DD mean discharge or death?
« on: Thursday 16 February 17 11:00 GMT (UK) »
On a record for Royal Navy it reads "DD at sick quarters Trincomalee from enteritis and disease of heart"

This was in 1902.

Many thanks if anyone knows.
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Re: On Royal Navy seaman record does DD mean discharge or death?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 16 February 17 11:26 GMT (UK) »
I think it's both. "Discharged Dead"
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Re: On Royal Navy seaman record does DD mean discharge or death?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 16 February 17 13:54 GMT (UK) »
You should find the formal listing of his death in the appropriate register in the ADM 104 series at Kew, free to download http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C1813

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Re: On Royal Navy seaman record does DD mean discharge or death?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 16 February 17 14:31 GMT (UK) »
I think it's both. "Discharged Dead"
Exactly right. One Admiralty Clerk I have researched has exactly two words in his first annual review in 1913: "Promising. Active." The next entry is DD: he was serving in HMS Monmouth when she was sunk with all hands in the Battle of Coronel.
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Re: On Royal Navy seaman record does DD mean discharge or death?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 16 February 17 19:01 GMT (UK) »
Thanks all. The link to the ONS site was a good idea, i found him in the log of deaths on ships :)
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