Royal Navy medals

[Guest Kieron Hill]

Hi all,

What does ORD mean on a medal issued

to someone in the Royal Navy?

inscription on medal = ORD. R.N.

And does anyone have an original Victory

medal ribbon they want to part with? I

have a replacement but it looks ****

if you know what I mean.

Cheers

Kieron

[DirtyDick]

Hi Kieron

It's short for Ordinary Seaman.

A Boy Sailor would be made into an Ordinary rating upon attaining the age of 18 years, and a man would enlist at that rating. One rank below an Able Seaman.

Richard

(The Sailor Man, peep-peep!)

[Guest Kieron Hill]

Cheers Richard

Nice to hear from you, haven't seen you

on ther other side for a while.

thanks again

Kieron

[per ardua per mare per terram]

And does anyone have an original Victory medal ribbon they want to part with?

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Hi Kieron

Yes I have some original Victory Medal ribbon.

Have you been to Kew and looked up his records of service. In the main a man was an ordinary Seaman for 2 years.

All the best

Fred

[Guest Kieron Hill]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your reply, I brought these

medals on ebay to replace my grandads

lost ones. With these medals came

his record of service. I don't know

if you can help with any of this

Pembroke

Greenwich

City of Perth

There is one more but I've got no chance

of working it out.

with regards the ribbon send an email

kieronmichelle@aol.com

Cheers

Kieron

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Pembroke was the Chatham base.

Greenwich was a destroyer depot base (is there another name in brackets after it?)

City of Perth nominal depot ship at Brightlingsea 1 October 1916 - 21/6/19. she was also a drifter hired in 1915 and served as one until becoming the depot ship.

[Guest Kieron Hill]

Hi Fred,

Thanks so much for everthing. I've

spent the last 5 days trying to find

out that information and seemed to hit

a dead everytime.

The other name as you said has

got brackets after it, so have you

got some ideas?

Also in one of the columns

it has CMB Base...any ideas?

with reference to the ribbon

consider it done, it's on the

way...thanks again.

Regards

Kieron

[DirtyDick]

Kieron

I think the CMB Base would be Coastal Motor Boats, very active in the Channel and approaches.

The bracketted name/number following the Greenwich entry should show the ID of the destroyer upon which he served.

Small craft such as these and submarines were administered by a depot ship, so man would be attached to the depot ship for service in one of its craft. E.g "Titania (G10)" or "Titania for G10" would indicate a posting to the Submarine Depot Ship Titania for service aboard submarine G10.

Richard

[Guest Kieron Hill]

Cheers Richard and Fred.

That colmn that mentions the

CMB Base reads the following:

Lent to Messers C.J Hill & Co

Ltd for work at U sea Island

CMB Base - time to count

for increase of pay, pension

under gen... can't read it

all and some of the above

may well be misspelt.

Regards

Kieron

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The other name as you said has got brackets after it, so have you got some ideas?

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What is the name? I can probably find it.

[Guest Kieron Hill]

Hi Fred,

This is a scan of part of the

service papers with the details

on, like I said a bit hard to

make out what it is.

Cheers

Kieron

[KONDOA]

Kieron/Fred/Dick,

Not wishing to hijack the thread but I think complimentary.

The second column of a RN SR shows a list number, what does this refer to and what can be found from it???

On one in my possession I have:

Columbine 14 (1 superscript )

Pembroke I 14 (B1 superscript)

President 15

Any pointers much appreciated.

Roop

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Osea (Osea Island), Clacton on Sea, coastal motor boat base.