W.I. Watts stoker

[sabine72]

hello

towards the navy my knowledge is as good as zero.

I 'm a looking for W.I. watts K 50816 he was a stoker. on accestry I found something on his medals, but that is all ther was.

The K stands for what?

He must have survived, since nothing in CWGC or SDGW.

any sugestions are welcome.

Kind regards

Sabine

[seaJane]

K50816 is his official number and when entered into the search box here http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/royal-naval-seamen.htm calls up William Idris Watts from Gorseinion, Glamorgan, Wales, born 20 April 1899.

Here is the link to his service record, a download of which you can buy from The National Archives via Paypal if you wish:

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D7008637

Interestingly another stoker called Frank Crompton, from Wigan, seems to have the same official number...

[horatio2]

Yet another example of poor indexing at Kew. Stoker Frank CROMPTON is K.50846, which (surprise, surprise) does not come up on Discovery.

'K' prefix to official number indicates stoker branch.

[sabine72]

Hello

Thank you,

kind regards

sabine

ps one more question, how come I can not find him in the 1911 census on ancestry?

[seaJane]

Hello

Thank you,

kind regards

sabine

ps one more question, how come I can not find him in the 1911 census on ancestry?

I don't know. This site http://www.1911census.co.uk/ has him living at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.