Yep you've got the gist of it,...basically,...and believe me, that was definitely the short version. :):)
Check some of the previous message threads on this board and you will find a lot of explanation about naval matters and especially about interpreting naval service records, which have the same format as RM service records.
Service past 1949 !,...give the guy a break, consider what his age would have been by then !, and anyway, he was discharged in 1944.
Royal marine service records for WW2 service can be obtained from the UK Ministry of Defence but they cost £30 and you'll need to supply his death certificate.
https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-re...BTW- You probably noticed that his surname has been misspelled as Creedon on one of his two WW1 medal record documents, there is one on which he is listed as an enlisted man and one on which his medals were issued in his commissioned rank, and it has also been misspelled as Creedon on his death registration.
Actually, forget that, you wouldn't need to supply his death certificate, because he would now be well past the age at which the MOD would automatically regard him as being deceased.
Retired in 1922 ?,...yes, that's what his records say, and and anyway, he had got his maximum term of pensionable service years in by then.
The RM was massively downsized post WW1 and especially in 1922 and in 1922 it was almost disbanded entirely, he might have retired voluntarily or he might have been compulsorily retired just as many other officers were, and they were offered a financial bonus to apply for retirement.
Ohhhhh !, another one. ! :):) Your best bet with that is to post a new separate thread about your great grandfather, lumping different people into the same message thread just causes the thread to become unmanageably confused and difficult to follow.
Yep, HMS Ganges, the Royal Naval training establishment for Boy Seamen, for them wot ain't already aware,...certainly always had a rep.
No rum at that age,...and I don't know about sodomy, although it was certainly frowned upon :):), but definitely plenty of the lash, and later the cane, a huge number of gunners daughters were kissed at Ganges for sure, right up until corporal punishment in the RN was finally made illegal in 1967, despite much resistance from the Admiralty, who had actually wanted to expand it's use, the army had banned it's use in 1956.
Perhaps the RAF personnel were better behaved, the RAF had never used it.