The National Archives have announced that they have added 155,000 additional Merchant Marine Records to their Documents Online database. The records cover the 1914 – 1918 period of the First World War, rather appropriate as the 70th anniversary of Dunkirk was a couple of days ago.
Remember that you have to pay to see the full record, but searching the index is free.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/merchant-seamens-medals.asp
Trying to trace mercentile marine medals for my father ww1 and ww11
his name George Bozman Born Liverpool 1900
I have an empty envelope that contained, at one time, a Mercantile Marine War Medal (World War I) for my maternal grandfather – COULSON DYNE, born 8/1878 in Hartley, Northumberland and died Feb 1935.
I am seeking more details of this award any anything else I can glean on this ancestor’s Mercantile Marine history. He served as a Master Mariner with Anglo-Iranian (previously Anglo-Persian. Are you able to help please?
George Heaviside
Could you pleasea dvise next step for me?