hi
Another thought on why you do not see RND ratings with good conduct badges. Apart from the Reservists and the 2000 Royal Navy Stokers in the original uptake. All were new recruits. Some of the "old hands" would have been interned in Holland after Antwerp, been killed at Gallipoli, or would have gone back to sea after Gallipoli and before the Western Front offensive. What was basically left were new recruits.
Photographs at Crystal Palace show quite a few "no badge" Leading Hands and Petty Officers, It is, therefore, possible that the ratings would not have had the time in to gain a good conduct badge before the RND was disbanded.
John
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