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Title: Trying to decipher a Service Record
Post by: Relative Stranger on 15 April 2026 06:15:44 pm

I'm trying to decipher the attached service record with some difficulty. Can anyone read it for me? And how do I go about finding out when he was taken prisoner etc.?

Title: Re: Trying to decipher a Service Record
Post by: PhiloNauticus on 16 April 2026 12:26:51 pm

HERMES             1 Dec 1812      Masters Mate      8 April 1814
WARSPITE           9 April 1814          -   ditto -      17 August 1814
CONFIANCE    18 August 1814   Able Seaman      24 August 1814
    “   “            25 August      Masters Mate      9 Sep 1815
Prisoner of war – August 1815

RAMILLIES   6 Sept 1825      Lieutenant      12 Dec 1826
Thence onto Half Pay

He was not a prisoner in France, but rather, the USA and in September, not  August   The Confiance was serving on the Great Lakes in Canada and was in the hard fought battle on Lake Champlain, and captured, – see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Confiance_(1814)

I presume that you are aware of his entry in O’Byrne ? 

Title: Re: Trying to decipher a Service Record
Post by: Relative Stranger on 16 April 2026 03:54:17 pm

Thank you. Yes I have read the O'Byrne entry.