incorrect service number on CWGC

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checking out a medal on ebay (not to the man below) returned this match:

[centre] Name: MOORE, ALFRED JOHN Initials: A J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Stoker 1st Class Regiment/Service: Royal Navy Unit Text: H.M.S. "Locust"

Age: 22 Date of Death: 21/01/1918

Service No: 21679

Additional information: Son of Fanny Rosina Giles, of 55, Treville St., Plymouth.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Church S. 15. 65.

Cemetery: FORD PARK CEMETERY (FORMERLY PLYMOUTH OLD CEMETERY) (PENNYCOMEQUICK) [/centre]

To have that number he would have been serving in the 1850s!

I suggest his correct number is K21679

[kin47]

Hello

Moore's correct service number is K 21679. He was a Stoker 1c.

A Leading Stoker and a second Stoker 1c drowned with Moore in LOCUST on this date.

All best

don

[joseph]

His Service Certificates,

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...1&resultcount=7

Regards Charles

[Terry Denham]

Error has been reported

[historydavid]

Was the Locust involved in action or an accident on this date?

Best wishes

David

[kin47]

Hello David

Notation says accidental drowning.

All best

don

[historydavid]

Thanks Don for confirming that.

Best wishes

David

[Terry Denham]

Re Number Error

See here http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_detail...asualty=2852111

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Thanks Terry. all helps the researcher.