Help identifying RN Service Record (1909-1921)

[TomDavis2000]

Hi all, I am currently looking into my 2x Great Uncle's Royal Navy service record, I have managed to work out the following:

 

Ernest Keller

Born: 1890, Eckington, Derbyshire, England
Died: 1949, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
 

Rank: Stoker 2nd Class

1 June 1909-28 August 1909: HMS Nelson (1876) Armoured Cruiser Training Ship

29 August 1909-13 October 1909: HMS Victory II Shore Establishment

14 October 1909-21 October 1909: HMS Latona (1890) Apollo-Class Protected Cruiser

 

22 October 1909-17 September 1910: HMS Drake (1901) Armoured Cruiser

Flagship 1st Cruiser Squadron, Channel Fleet (1908-1910)

Assigned 5th Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, Channel Fleet (1910-1911)

 

18 September 1910-21 September 1910: HMS Victory II Shore Establishment

 

Rank: Stoker 1st Class

22 September 1910-18 March 1912: HMS Duke of Edinburgh (1904) Armoured Cruiser

‘She helped to rescue the survivors of the SS Delhi which ran aground

off the coast of Morocco in December 1911.‘

19 March 1912-20 May 1912: Discharged, Service Expired

 

Rank: Stoker 1st Class

31 May 1914: Transferred to RFR Ports ......???

2 August 1914-23 November 1914: M.F.A. ?

24 November 1914-8 May 1915: HMS Victory II Shore Establishment

9 May 1915-31 December 1915: H.M.S. Excellent Gunnery Training School Shore Establishment- why would a stoker be at a gunnery training school?

1 January 1916-7 May 1917: HMS Vernon Shore Establishment

Rank: Acting Leading Stoker

8 March 1917-11 October 1917: HMS Victory II Shore Establishment

 

Rank: Leading Stoker

12 October 1917-17 October 1918: HMS Glory (1899) Pre-Dreadnought Battleship ?- I am unsure about this one as I am aware that HMS Glory was in Russia from 1917 to 1919, returning to the UK in September 1919

18 October 1918-9 June 1921: Vy Sat? D-----? & Demobilised

 

Any help would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Tom.

 

 

 

Edited 27 August , 2018 by TomDavis2000

[horatio2]

Welcome to the GWF.

Having completed his 5 years in the Fleet as a stoker on a Special Service (SS) engagement (his engagement papers are now held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum) he was transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve (RFR) for 7 years with RFR number Portsmouth B.6870 (in addition to his SS Official Number.

On mobilisation from the RFR for WW1 he was first drafted to the Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary (MFA) CHINKOA (a squadron supply ship).

Although borne on the books of HMS EXCELLENT for pay and admin purposes he was actually serving in the destroyer HMS DESPERATE in the Portsmouth Local Defence Flotilla. DESPERATE was transferred to be parented by another depot ship at Portsmouth, HMS VERNON, on 1 January 1916. 

HMS GLORY was a depot ship in the White Sea, Russia. He was part of her ship's company for the dates shown.

On 13 February 1919 he was demobilised at the war's end but he was mobilised again from the RFR for the national miners' strike April - June 1921. Finally demobilised 9 June 1921.

Edited 27 August , 2018 by horatio2

[TomDavis2000]

Cheers Horatio, great info! Tom.