Have you tried the CWGC at http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14# ----- Original Message ----- From: "lynne robinson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Royal Navy records > Hi Mike and others. > > Thanks. > > Is there any way to search for such deaths, without the service record? > In other > words, the Public Records Office keeps a record of Births, Marriages, and > Deaths which can be searched online through some family history sites, > with the > death registered in a given county. I actually have the original > service record > of my ggrandfather, showing his death and it doesn't show up in a search > of > BMDs. I am wondering if there is a set of records for seamen who die away > from > home, either at sea or on foreign soil. (Unfortunately, a number of my > British > ancestors chose a life at sea...hard to track them.) > > I understand that there are fairly extensive records kept of service on > the sea. > I have read that pre-1914 naval officers and ratings in the RN are kept at > The > Public Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey. I have also read that these > records can only be searched in person. Any further info on that from > this > group? > > (And yes, our weather is also very unseasonable...has been too > warm...first time > in living memory that Nova Scotia was hit by a category 2 hurricane a > few years > ago.) > > Lynne > > > > > Quoting [email protected]: > >> Any sailor dying at sea would have his service record marked DD >> (Discharged >> Dead). This procedure still exists today. >> >> Mike >> >> Waterlooville >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message