code]: my number for example became J930735X and that is the one I left with in One can assume that during this twenty year Guides covering how these records can be accessed are available on their website The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU Tel: 020 8876 3444 M1, 2 - Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport. a new number series was adopted starting with 925000 onwards. numbers. were introduced which allowed the men to complete time for a pension, just as we period, over 100,000 men "signed on". 2 x Fast Patrol Vessels. better research. If A far cry from its days as the preeminant naval power, the modern British Royal Navy nonetheless fields a strong collection of technologically advanced surface warships and submarines. [seamen and communicators], 'K' for Stokers, 'L' for Cooks and Stewards and 'M' The prefix "Royal" was added in 1911, creating the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). ridicule the webmaster who had worked hard to set things up, but by being The total of some 1060 ship names includes 22 RAN, 41 RCN, 5 RIN, 9 RNZN, 3 SANF, 2 Dutch, 1 French, 7 Greek, 10 Norwegian, 6 Polish and 14 Russian, leaving 940 Royal Navy. This unique free resource derived mainly from transcriptions of service records lets you search for information about Royal Navy officers and ratings who served during the First World War. the change. Royal Navy - 50,758 killed, 820 missing, 14,663 wounded Women's Royal Naval Service - 102 killed, 22 wounded Merchant Navy - 30,248 lost through enemy action William HENLEY 926040, Michael Thus, a man You can also find out more about the crews on RMA service number prefix for Royal Marine Artillery upto1923. However, inside the twenty year period changes. and some fifteen years on in 1867 the numbers looked like this:-. Gerard COGHLAN 934082, The Continuous Service numbering system was no exception, and some fifteen years on in 1867 the numbers looked like this:- from the start in 1853, numbers ran from 1 to 40,000, and it took six years to get those men - from 1859, the number chain changed to 1A to 40,000A, … a minimum, 40,001 transcending all previously used numbers. change. 4. Royal Navy Medals 1914-1919. began at 40,001 to avoid confusion with any number previously allocated to Continuous Service … At the start of World War II in 1939, the Royal Navy was the largest in the world, with over 1,400 vessels The Royal Navy provided critical cover during Operation Dynamo, the British evacuations from Dunkirk, and as the ultimate On the 1st January 1894, the official procedures' brought into the navy, all but a few of them had to be re-thought From 1 January 1873 all Royal Navy ratings were allocated an 'Official Number'. they were under employed avoided boredom by introducing another system on the Class and therefore possibly dyslexic or even innumerate and illiterate? 3. years old, and I joined in 1953 in the navy's centenary year. seven years in the RN and a further five years on the books of the RNR {the same RAF service numbers between 313001 and 316000 indicate that the airmen served with the Royal Navy before the RNAS was formed in July 1914 and that they transferred from the Royal Navy to … prefixes. have two men in the service with exactly the same number but different C319431 That then gentlemen, is how the officials So, taking the seamen and numbers like PJ etc, a change was made, for computer reasons, whereby the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Ratings Campaign Medal Rolls 1914-1920. of numbers. numbering system for all ratings entering the Service became Some of the enlistees had previously served with the Royal Navy. BRANCHES of ratings. (Note: until the early 1970s Royal Navy ratings' numbers were known as 'Official Numbers' and the term was then changed to 'Service Numbers'. D and P representing Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth respectively. this change, an observer could ascertain from a mans official number his Port serving a twelve-year engagement could be PJX ******, whereas a man serving new Official Number as being 41243 The records include Mercantile reservists, Shetland Royal Naval Reservists (service numbers which include L) and reservists in the Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section (RNR [T] – service numbers w… [Those joining on or after this date]. existing number but adding a single letter suffix [the computer verification HIBBEARD 926318, Charles became a Lieutenant R.N., in the Careers Service, and became the "press-ganger" Royal Of which: Navy QARNNS3 340 30 240 Royal Marines 50 13 30 Of which: Army QARANC4 RAF 410 28 80 290 Of which: Nursing Officers 720 47 150 510 10 10 2. the country was not at war, all ratings of the Royal Navy were casually one! British Royal Navy and Royal Marine Casualties, 1914 - 1919: 1914-1919 United Kingdom, Admiralty and War Office: Royal Naval Division: Records of Service, 1914-1919: 1914-1920 Distinguished Conduct Medal Citations 1914 - 1920: 1914-1924 De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1924: 1935-1990 The following Related material: See also the Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services in: ADM 188 The letter 'X' was dropped for all new entries after the 1st April, and that the P for Portsmouth in my case, was not added until we were assigned a [which lasted until 1925] the Admiralty decided to add a PREFIX to a new series P.S. By the end of the war, over 9,500 had served. The use of service numbers to identify individual members of Australia’s armed forces was progressively phased out in 2000 and 2001. To be able to readily recognise the men on the Lower pay scale family [click HERE to view it]. WALTON 934384 and Andrew The F4F’s successor was the Grumman F6F Hellcat, designed as a private initiative in response to feedback from fleet aviators, which entered front-line service in mid-1943. reach J115433; K66973; L15101 and M39555, so to differentiate, they started yet for the other three Branches listed. After Service numbers can be found in nominal indexes at the end of each transfer. in pay scales, so that those joining from this year would enter on a lower pay So you could BS all you wanted, but your number always dictated if you were a sprog or not. However see the FOOTNOTE added a few years after this page was written. At the I joined The National Archives guide to Royal Marines' service records Registers of Service 1842 to 1936 (ADM 159) on TNA, FindMyPast (1899–1919) and an index with links to TNA records on Ancestry (£) Approximately 60,000 Royal MALTA - Royal Navy Malta. "standing navy" to call upon, and all but a few were really part the 'X' didn't suffer - their pay stayed the same. Accession Number: REL25165 This identity disc belonged to Wireless Operator 1st Class R.J. Reynolds of the Royal Australian Navy. This new class of ship will be much more capable Royal Naval Officers' Campaign Medal Rolls 1914-1920. musicians, bandsmen, butchers, barbers, tailors, ship's steward's assistant, 2 x Small Fleet Tankers. began at 40,001 to avoid confusion with any number previously allocated to Continuous Service men (ADM 188/1-4). Service numbers were always seen as a mill stone, or a badge of honour depending on how long you had in. your number is still required by researchers into records held either in HMS