Trying to trace details of Grandmas brother as I compile the family tree
William Stanley Lloyd or Downs
Royal Navy
this is all I can find
Name
William S Lloyd
Event Type
Birth Registration
Registration Quarter
Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year
1918
Registration District
Hull
County
Yorkshire
Event Place
Hull, Yorkshire, England
Mother's Maiden Name (not available before 1911 Q3)
Downs
Volume
9D
Page
429
Line Number
88
also
got a bit of info from my mum
Initial training at HMS Raleigh (Portsmouth I believe) then HMS Ganges (Suffolk training?) then
a newspaper cutting dated September 4th 1937 headlined PREPARING TO JOIN SPAIN PATROL. picture shows ten sailors on deck of ship, and caption says 'Men of the destroyers Fury and Forester detailed to reinforce the Spain patrol, folding the red, white and blue flags which will be spread over the decks for identification and warning to aircraft, during the last minute preparations at Portsmouth yesterday.'
Another tiny cutting says 'As forecast in yesterday's Daily Herald the 11th destroyer division was ordered yesterday to sail at once for the Mediterranean. The division comprises Fury and Forester from Portsmouth, Firedrake and Fortune from Chatham
any information appreciated
regards
Jon
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