Royal Navy Research Archive Forums
Personnel => Royal Navy => Topic started by: tea girl on 24 March 2015 03:43:42 pm
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My Grandad James Goldsmith was promoted from seaman to leading seaman in a few weeks after , he had been at adrossan and then sent to gibralter this was during the war, was it common for seaman to jump 2 rates?
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Strictly there was no 'seaman', but rather Ordinary Seaman (O/S) and Able Seaman (A/B). You would not normally by pass Able to get to Leading Seaman.....