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  A few musings on Henry Hull.

  The 2 ships about which I've not been able to find anything about are as follows....
143283    18.9.20
129547    26.9.21
  I was wondering whether or not these may have been the first ships he served aboard as they have the earliest dates and they are listed next to his photograph on the C.R. 10 card.
  Also, I was wondering if all these dates beside the ships' numbers indicate the dates on which signed on or when he was discharged.

  Regarding the "vesicle haemorrhage", I agree that, with my distant knowledge of A Level human biology, vesicles are something to do with kidneys and bladders and urinary tracts etc. Not very pleasant I know. I googled hemiotomy and nothing descriptive came up, so I think that it may be an old term for something else. otomy sounds like lobotomy & hemi like hemispheres of the brain? I may cheekily ask my G.P. when I see him next week.

  My Mum has told me a few more anecdotes about him. Apparently, there were several mementoes that he'd "relieved" from the Mauretania including ashtrays, spoons, badges and plates. Unfortunately, these appear to have been sold cheaply during a house clearance that my grandad (Henry's son) had done in the 70's.  Also, Henry's wife (Rose Edith Hull) was very mean to him. This included branding him with flatirons when he'd come home on leave or was tipsy. While I don't know the whole story, I can't say that I'd blame him for wanting to spend his time at sea and moving to Australia to get away from her. Mum has said (and she knew her gran extremely well) that she was mean and horrible to everyone!

  I'm going to download the medal entitlement document from the national archives site. I was wondering that as I don't have a printer of my own, would I be better off to get someone else to download and print it (such as my brother).

  Thanks again everyone for your help.

  Gary.

I forgot to mention that the date of his death was 9 April 1945. Interesting.

 I went to Southampton archives armed with Henry George Hull's number and found the following....

2x C.R. 1 cards. These contained, amongst other things, info like height,eye colour, hair colour which were all previously unknown.

2x C.R.2 cards. One states- rating greaser, the ship 166290 ( Queen Elizabeth I've found out) and date of engagement 31.7.40.  Te second has rating Elec Attd, ship Mauretania 124093 and (date of engagement crossed out and replaced with date of Dis) 30.3.27. On the back of this 2nd card is the following

143667  18.2.22
124093   6.6.23
cont: issued ex Mauretania 12.5.31
Shell Brit 4 160497  31.12.37
162316  20.7.40

All I have done with this is to find out the names of he ships.

1x C.R.10 card. This gives his identity certificate number 476862 , rating of Fireman and some other info like name, D.O.B etc. On the back is a photo ( the first that I' ve seen of him) and 143283  18.9.20 and 129547  26.9.21

I have, in 3 consecutive generations, Argent Blundell. Sounds French in origin.

Hi Dawn,
 I agree with you that the 1945 possibility is very promising. So promising in fact that I've taken the plunge and ordered the certificate. Should arrive in 3-4 weeks. Fingers crossed.
 I'm extremely grateful for your help.
 Gary.