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Armed Forces / Re: merchant navy officers records
« on: Saturday 03 October 15 15:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi Hugh
Thanks a bundle. Yes, I did find those some time back but, as you say, they're not digitized so - up the M3 to Kew.
Thanks anyway. Very helpful.
Jakko

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Armed Forces / Re: merchant navy officers records
« on: Saturday 03 October 15 14:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Hugh. The other guy's name is Henry Sless, engineer, R212428, registered in Glasgow.

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Armed Forces / Re: merchant navy officers records
« on: Saturday 03 October 15 10:54 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ken. Yes, that's where I found his two wartime awards (DSC on OHIO and MBE on San Cipriano) but for service for both of us - zilch. I guess it means an expedition to the wilds of Kew.

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Armed Forces / merchant navy officers records
« on: Friday 02 October 15 21:02 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps someone out there knows how to get info' from National Archives without going to Kew.
I have been trying to get the record of a relation who was an engineer in and after WW2. I got his medal awards OK but then drew a blank so I tried my own records in BT382. The same - nothing found. How come? My own details are John Jackson R395958 in London 1947, Deck Apprentice up to Master Mariner 1957. Surely couldn't be easier. Help!!

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Armed Forces / royal australian navy
« on: Sunday 06 September 15 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Been struggling to track my fathers complicated record in and after ww1. He was demobbed from HO's in RMA 17 March 1919 then promptly enlisted for 7 years in Australian Navy. He joined Brisbane when she was preparing to return from UK to Oz but apparently paid off 1 April 1919. Shortest 7 years on record, no?
In remarks column of record is "R 1.4.19 SC filed. Not to be claimed for further service in RAN vide P316/1/1 of 17.1.22"
Anybody know what all that means?

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Cork / Re: Monkstown Residents
« on: Wednesday 02 September 15 11:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks a lot, Oldkingkole. Very helpful. It's a lot harder getting infor' on recentish past than 200 years ago!

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World War One / Re: Field Punishment WW1
« on: Thursday 27 August 15 10:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks mmm45. I thought FP2 was for something like being picked up by the Redcaps in the wrong place and was a Court Martial punishment. However, I'll chase up the links. Ta.

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Cork / Monkstown Residents
« on: Monday 24 August 15 17:48 BST (UK)  »
From Jakko. My grandparents, Richard and Susannah Jackson, died in 1943 and 1944 respectively.
Their certificates just give "Lower Monkstown". I believe they had an unmarried sister living with them.
The 1942 Guys gives just 1 Jackson in Monkstown - S.P.Jackson in Rock Lodge. I would think that was beyond their purse although grandma could fit and granddad had a sister Sarah living in Blackrock in 1911.
I suppose the voters list could clarify this. Is it open on-line?
Thanks for any help.

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World War One / Field Punishment WW1
« on: Monday 24 August 15 14:45 BST (UK)  »
From Jakko. My father Richard Howard Jackson 1408(S) served in an oddball unit in France 1916/19, the Royal Marine Artillery Howitzer Divn. as Gunner.
In January 1917 he earned himself 3 days FP No. 2. Not a good career development. In the remarks column of the Service Record, very faint, looks like B2069 which is, of course, the Charge.
Presumably he got nobbled by Court Martial to get that.
I would be interested to find out what he did to earn that. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Poor guy was only 19 and, from other evidence, I suspect he had just got a "Dear John" from his intended.
 

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