alastaircox Posted 15 March , 2016 Share Posted 15 March , 2016 A photograph/postcard of a young sailor sporting a navy tally from HMS Dunedin. Are there any clues as to period? Many thanks, Alastair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 15 March , 2016 Share Posted 15 March , 2016 HMS Dunedin launched 19 November 1918 and commissioned 13 September 1919, so post-Great War altogether, strictly speaking. Dark covers to the caps were still rig into the 1950s so that's no help I'm afraid. I would have expected the bow to be more round the side; perhaps its position is some kind of index to the date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastaircox Posted 15 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2016 She was sunk in 1941, which limits the date range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepoy Posted 15 March , 2016 Share Posted 15 March , 2016 During WW2 they simply wore a H.M.S. cap tally.Sepoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 16 March , 2016 Share Posted 16 March , 2016 So, 1919-1939 ... Is the photograph original? Any photographer's signature or address? (I suppose if you knew the name of the subject you would already have told us ... ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastaircox Posted 16 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2016 No clues whatsoever from the postcard I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_harvey Posted 16 March , 2016 Share Posted 16 March , 2016 no if on service in ships they wore HMS, my great uncle when he married my aunt in 1942 wore an HMS Hood cap tally for the wedding picture, it was a year after Hood Sunk but we can date it as he didn't get his Leading Signaller badge until 1942 and he is wearing that and the hood tally, and as he was one of the 3 survivors I guess he was allowed to wear it. I have also seen portraits from WW2 of sailors wearing ships names. it also looks like my own grandfathers naval photo from ww2 but as the uniform never changed I guess it will be unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastaircox Posted 16 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2016 Thank you all for your assistance. I shall file it away as non-WW1... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Posted 16 March , 2016 Share Posted 16 March , 2016 Interesting as I live in Dunedin NZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 16 March , 2016 Share Posted 16 March , 2016 Interesting as I live in Dunedin NZ The ship was transferred to the RNZN in 1925, which MAY narrow it down even further. I was investigating the passage of use of the black vest under the uniform as it may have given a narrower date band, there may have been a link to the glorious day when the blue-edged white vest became de rigeur. Still seeing black in 1939 though, admitting that the photos were of Stokers and that maybe they weren't expected to wear white ! Only ship of the Danae Class to have a NZ name, there was a DELHI as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 16 March , 2016 Share Posted 16 March , 2016 I think the black vest/guernsey may have gone at the same time as the black cap, but don't quote me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastaircox Posted 16 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2016 Coincidently, and for Ernesto's benefit, I also picked up this on the same day in a different place. MV Port Dunedin (merchant navy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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