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    Quote Originally Posted by Brett Gibson View Post
    Thanks to your input, I have the CRS10 on my list to review and record. Hoping to get access to the National Archives soon. They release slots every Monday, so will be hoping I'm quick enough to secure one.

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    Sounds good Brett
    Once you have all that info with his CRS10 if you want to persue things futher, then with the Ships lists they will hold, you can then start the Crew Lists From Canada if they are available. Also the Ships Movement Cards , those too if available , as a lot of old things either got destroyed,or lost over the Years!
    Good luck and do keep us informed when things happen LOL
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    I thought I had posted this before but can't find it. From HIS MAJESTY'S MERCHANT NAVY Talbot-Booth
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Vernon View Post
    Sounds good Brett
    Once you have all that info with his CRS10 if you want to persue things futher, then with the Ships lists they will hold, you can then start the Crew Lists From Canada if they are available. Also the Ships Movement Cards , those too if available , as a lot of old things either got destroyed,or lost over the Years!
    Good luck and do keep us informed when things happen LOL
    Cheers
    Thanks for all your advice. Yes, I will update when I have the data.

    Cheers,
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    This is a Shaw Savill & Albion cap badge.
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    Touch wood, all helps. Pos solved ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Morrison View Post
    This is a Shaw Savill & Albion cap badge.
    I was sent this photo by my sister, which is again, of my father (William Gibson) in uniform. I can just make out the photographers markings in the lower right corner and see it was taken in Auckland in c.1950. Trying to work out if the cap badge in this image matches or aligns with your Shaw Savill & Albion badge. Also, can anyone identify the uniform as the rank is on the shoulder board and not the sleeve?

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    That looks like the same Badge so i think i was correct in the first place Brett.
    That Shoulder Stripe is either 4th Engineer or 3rd Officer
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    Hi Brett, Am rather late with this but here goes :- I will state that this was a professional studio photo and the photographer touching up the photo attempted erroneously to creat a standard jacket. Merchant navy adopted the Navy Blue serge Battledress during WW2. ( not the boots !) Still in common use well into the late 1950’s. We wore the rank as an epaulet board at the shoulder. In the photo, your Dad is Third Mate or Junior Engineer. Probably just passed his 2nd Mates Ticket !

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    Hello Brett,
    You may already know this by now but the cap badge doesn't look like an SS&A badge. I have tried to paste in a picture of my SS&A cap badge but have failed miserably..... Apologies.
    The SS&A cap badge has two crossed flags - one looking not unlike the White Ensign but with blue and red with white stars instead of the Union flag in the top corner with the other flag being red over blue with a silver figure in the centre.
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    Post #29. Hello Adrian.

    The S.S.& A. cap badge. The flag to the left was the original national flag of New Zealand. The one to the right was the house flag of the Aberdeen White Star Line which was absorb into Shaw Savill in the 1930's.
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