Genealogy Chat

Pm'd you Jan and Vera, thank you. Tiddley thank you - have this - just discovered this is wife no3!

royal navy james hannonI am begining to think i am really thick.
I have entered in my dads name and his service number://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/navy.asp
but it tells me no match he was a marine commando
James France Hannon vx 353912 Royal navy.
i have a date of 27;april 1942 Chatham and i know he was injured in Sicily
can any one point me in the right direction .

Chris.

Have a look at all the info on the Commonwealth Graves Commission site if you have not already done so.

www.cwgc.org

Name: HORN, CHARLES JOSEPH
Initials: C J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Chief Stoker
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Quorn
Age: 40
Date of Death: 03/08/1944
Service No: P/K 59823
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Horn; husband of Gloria Edith Horn, of Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 85, Column 1.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Hi Chris

I'm going over to Portsmouth in two weeks time and can drive past the Memorial and take a photo of his entry if you want

Jan

Chris

Original different to above i.e. one re gratuity other medal no

Name: C J Horn
Medal or Award: RN Long Service and Good conduct Medal
Service Year: 1934-1937


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Regards

Vera

Chris

This is K59823 Sto PO awarded 1937

Can send you original if it helps


Name: Charles Joseph Horn
Medal or Award: RN Long Service and Good conduct Medal
Service Year: 1935-1940
Ship Name: Sandwich


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Regards

Vera

Horn, Charles Joseph K59823
Reference: ADM 188/980/322

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7236225

Mark.

Thanks Annie and Belle, I am very grateful. Better explain - old lady has told her SIL she knows nothing - I make contact with SIL and give him all the tree and background info I have (OH's family and been researching them for 25yrs). Old lady now says she knows more than she let on and is disputing my work left right and centre. It would be funny if it was not so irritating!!!!

His record is here, in the Registers of Seamans services. It will cost £3-50 to download

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/navy.asp

this is on the CWGC site;

Second World War Naval Records from 1924 onwards can be obtained from the address below.

Director Naval Personnel
Mailpoint G2
Room 48
West Battery
Whale Island
Portsmouth
PO2 8DX

Am looking for Charles Joseph Horn b 1904 Portsmouth and was a Chief Stoker when his ship went down in August 1944. Have tried Ancestry and FMP but no luck.

I know got service records for RN before (last year sometime) looked in National Archieves but found nothing and got more confused! Not hard to do. I know he was full time and was in Navy when he married in 1927.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please before I bash an old lady over the head with a frying pan!

Thank you