Genealogy Forum UK

Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:48 pm**

JUst after the war, from a wedding photograph. The insignia looks to me like a Lieutenant in the RNVR?

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:49 am**

Yes known by the Royal Navy as the 'Wavy Navy' looks like there is a letter inside the gold ring, could it be an 'A' for Aviator :?:

Linell.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:43 am**

I don't think he was an aviator, wondering what other letters there might be that it could be.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:28 pm**

linell wrote:Yes known by the Royal Navy as the 'Wavy Navy' looks like there is a letter inside the gold ring, could it be an 'A' for Aviator Linell.

this is one of my distant cousins he was in the anson infantry battalion

BRACEGRIDLE, William, Able Seaman, RNVR, Tyneside Z 2016, Anson Battalion, RND, 10 May 1915, Gallipoli, DOW in HS Guildford Castle

also this

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1005 ... ations.htm

here the naval infantry battalions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_(Royal_Naval)_Division

Can someone confirm my deduction here please?