Help with Service Record

[Kevino]

Hi

I have an extract from the "Great War Role" Birmingham District which shows a Alfred Betts served from 1916-1919 and was posted to HMS Inflexible and took part in the Battle of Jutland, i have managed to download a copy of his Sea Service record but this does not show evidence of him serving on the ship it neither shows of any of the medals he obtained through his service, as this is the first time i have obtained this type of record any help in dechypering what all the figures mean ) it would be greatly appreciated

A brief discription of the record is below

Sea Service

No BRISTOL Z/3090

Rating O.S. A.B.

Date of entry 30/11/15

30/8/15

D.O.B 17/4/95

6/9/15 6th Battalion, 6.A.1017

30/11/15 Drafted from Misc.Battn Div. 1. (F217) to Portsmouth

6/12/15 Enrolement Form sent to A.G.9

28/2/19 W.G.12834 to A.G.9b

Thanks

Kevin

[horatio2]

What you have downloaded here is usually known (slightly inaccurately) as an RND Record Card, albeit this RNVR man did not go to the RND (although he was liable to so serve) but to sea service.

He was Bristol Division RNVR and his date of enlistment was 30/8/15. Joining as an Ordinary Seaman (OS) he was advanced to Able Seaman (AB) three months later on 30 /11/15. His initial naval training at the Crystal Palace Depot was in the 6th [Training] Battalion, where his Pay No. was 6/A/1017 - the 'A' indicating that he was in 'A' Company.

On making AB he was sent to sea service at Portsmouth from the Crystal Palace.

The last two entries refer to movements of paperwork, the last one about his War Gratuity (WG).

For more on his sea service you will need to get his full service record from the NA. His RNVR enrolment papers should be in the ledgers at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

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Details of his medals would be on the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve medal roll for Ratings A-Dak, which is at Kew on microfilm in ADM 171/125