Hi, so my ageing mother has found a trove of information relating to her fathers (my grandfather) time in the Royal Navy.
We have a variety of medals, RN numbers etc etc
How or where can I use these details to find out more about the ships he served on and the locations and could I find out or create a time line of his time in the Navy?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Cheers.
Could you go through exactly what you have? Any information you know about him would also be helpful - any ranks or similar.
Also, the FAQ has a section on finding service records for family members - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/militaryrecords. That's got some stuff on RN records that should be helpful.