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Merchant Navy?
« on: Thursday 22 February 07 19:22 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone tell me how you go about finding out if someone was ever in either the Merchant or Royal Navy around 1930-40?

I don't really know where to start?

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Re: Merchant Navy?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 22 February 07 19:26 GMT (UK) »
Southampton City Archives hold the original records of the Central Index Register of Merchant Seamen 1918-41

You can contact them:-

city.archives@southampton.gov.uk
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
 All UK census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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