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Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to William James Doney. Year of Birth 1904. Place of Birth Plymouth. (Manuscript)
1932-08-14
RSS/CC/P/17
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Reginald George Challis. Year of Birth 1906. Place of Birth Hampstead. (Manuscript)
1932-08-14
RSS/CC/P/16
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Frederick Brewer. Year of Birth 1901. Place of Birth Notting Hill. (Manuscript)
1932-08-05
RSS/CC/P/18
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to George Claxton. Year of Birth 1899. Place of Birth Beeston, Swaffam (sic), Norfolk. (Manuscript)
1934-11-06
RSS/CC/P/43
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Abraham Gretton. Year of Birth 1898. Place of Birth Wednesbury, Staffordshire. (Manuscript)
1938-09-14
RSS/CC/P/117
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Ernest Edward Want. Year of Birth 1912. Place of Birth London. (Manuscript)
1939-08-01
RSS/CC/P/132
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to seaman. (Manuscript)
1931
RSS/CC/P/5
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to seaman. (Manuscript)
1931
RSS/CC/P/2
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to seaman. (Manuscript)
1931
RSS/CC/P/3
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Seaman by Poona Office of the Board of Trade from 1931 to 1943. (Manuscript)
1931-1943
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