WW1 records confusion..

[Borley Manor]

Thanks for that info, I will look it all up as time permits.
Incidently, the date of birth on the Naval Record as 1884 is my grandmothers birth date, her brother Richard was actually born in 1887, therefore making him only 17 when he joined up..
Anyone sponsor me in making a time machine so we can ask a few questions of ancestors..
Borley Manor

[Borley Manor]

The DD abbreviation looks like a DW to me at first, I thought it meant Drowned Wet, or Discharged Wet, shows how little I know really. Thanks for the helpful answer..
Borley Mnaor..

[Borley Manor]

Down at the bottom of the record, it shows A column of gratuities, was this some form of insurance for a death from Lloyds Patriotic Fund, and, would records be available..?

[mmm45]

http://www.lloyds.com/About_Us/Corporate_responsibility/Charity/Lloyds_Patriotic_Fund/

Its still up and running today...dont know how youll get records back there though!

Ady

[mmm45]

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=141672&st=0&#entry1352684

Reg a bit more including press release on c11

ady

[Borley Manor]

Bless you for this, I have enlisted with them, as they say and ready to regale the forum members with my history findings. It is difficult to know where to glean all information pertaining to this mishap from, and this sort of finding is marvellous, thanks again.
I did join the Submarine Assoc', but, it seems a bit of a submariners local and interlopers are not really paid heed to, still, nothing ventured etc...
Maybe I will get these email/Times excerpts from the guy who posted the info, who knows, I will certainly ask...
Strange how the distances keep changing, first it was off the coast of Cromer, Norfolk, then 4.5. miles from the Haisboro' lightship, and now it's 20 miles from that...almost Holland in fact , still, I keep trying to get the facts.....
Reg

[Borley Manor]

This is the Richard William George Stainer, and a probable copy photograph of the one my mother saw all those years ago. This has all been proved now, but so much information, I have to compile a booklet of it all. The finding of this photograph was through another distant relative of mine that knows nothing of me at all...I will keep you all up to snuff on further findings as they are revealed.....

[Shaftesbury]

I have just come across these posts and it has solved a puzzle. My great aunt mentioned an uncle killed in a submarine. Her mother was Rose Stainer (who married Walter Wareham) and I now know that this is Richard William G Stainer, Rose's brother.

I have a family history website with Stainer information on it at -

http://www.southwilts.com/site/My-family-history-by-Mark-Wareham/

see under Wareham family and then on the spreadsheet on the tab 'S' for Stainer.