Years ago I got someone to check out Grandfathers merchant and royal naval records at the national archives.
I never met him as he died of pneumonia in 1929 but my nan always had a large glass display with a ship in it and my mum said it was of his ship at the Battle of Jutland. Now my sister has become interested in this as of course the Jutland Battle is on tv a lot now.
She has asked me to find the name of Grandfathers ship but Im having trouble doing it as I can find a couple of ship names on his records but some have just a sort of reference number and I wondered if anyone knows what this means, if anything please?
For instance: This record shows ship name as 13 S.S.S. (I assume thats steam ship? as he was a leading stoker)
Name J Horstead
Medal or Award Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal
Service Year 1914-1920
Service Location Europe
Campaign or Service World War I
Ship Name 13 S.S.S.
I never met him as he died of pneumonia in 1929 but my nan always had a large glass display with a ship in it and my mum said it was of his ship at the Battle of Jutland. Now my sister has become interested in this as of course the Jutland Battle is on tv a lot now.
She has asked me to find the name of Grandfathers ship but Im having trouble doing it as I can find a couple of ship names on his records but some have just a sort of reference number and I wondered if anyone knows what this means, if anything please?
For instance: This record shows ship name as 13 S.S.S. (I assume thats steam ship? as he was a leading stoker)
Name J Horstead
Medal or Award Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal
Service Year 1914-1920
Service Location Europe
Campaign or Service World War I
Ship Name 13 S.S.S.
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