Egypt WW 1 Medal Group RMLI Unique RFR naming

John Rymes joined the Royal Marines Light Infantry in 1880. He qualified for the Egypt medal pair onboard HMS Euryalus in 1881, and was then invalided on 1884, see ADM157/1857/39.

He enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve in Sept 1902 and was allocated the service number PLY14881 and the RFR Number PLY B 121. He attended annual camps in September each year until 1910 and again in August 1914.

He was then mobilised 2nd August 1914 and posted to HMS Amphitrite two days later. The ship immediately began blockade patrols in the North Sea. Captured an Austrian steamer, Mediterrannio on 9th. Dalssa on the 11th. Exercised attacking submarines with B7 and B8 on the 15th. Atlantic Convoy duty in early September, into Gibraltar on 10th before returning to Plymouth on 20th.

John Rymes was discharged medically unfit for a second time, on 28th September 1914, his six weeks service earned him a trio.

Possibly an error in the medal office, but his star is named to PLY B 121 and the pair to PLY 121. I’ve never seen trios named with RFR numbers, these usually only on the RFR LSGC in brackets after the normal divisional number.