Can anyone identify and give me some details of squadrons?

[didactylos]

I have just obtained my father's records and he was in the following squadrons..... a look on the internet has got me nowhere.

1943 - 2780 Sqdrn, 2876 Sqdrn,
1944 - 2877 Sqdrn, 2715 Sqdrn,

He began as an AC1 in 1943, ended up as a LAC in 1945. Looks like he was recommended for training as a pilot observer but seems to have been in India (SEAC) and ground crew type work?

Really trying to make sense of forms that are obviously simple if you know what you are looking at, but to me its really difficult to see what is what?

Happy to scan or give further details - you'll gather I don't have much of a clue what I am talking about here.

Roger

[ReadyDale]

This might help:
http://www.rafweb.org/Regiment2.htm

(Edit: Change the 2 to a 3 in the URL for the later two squadrons)

[didactylos]

Thanks that gives me somewhere to start., looks like he was a motor mechanic in an AA unit. Now to make sense of the chronology and other entries. Not all of them are in date order which is odd.

Spreadsheet time....

Roger

[didactylos]

Looking at the form:

I'm puzzled by the numbers in the column headed Dep P.O.R which all seem to be two numbers with a slash between?
There's another column number 8 across that has P.O.R confirming arrival with similar numbers?
The Reason column has strange abbreviations that make no sense to me?

I am puzzled.....

Roger

[rafcommands]

PORs were just a paper means of transferring posting and allowance information from and to HQ.

The references you have are useless without the corresponding Group/HQ standing orders.

http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?11859-POR-Personnel-Occurance-Report-Summary

As to reason columns in the F543 then http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?11925-Service-records-notations-HH

Regards
Ross

[didactylos]

Thanks for that I can now interpret the H and X on the Reason column, but there's a DD/H at one point and what looks to me like Seyc???

Anyone got an idea?

Roger

[Neil48]

I believe DD/H stands for Detached Duty, Home Establishment in normal speak on a training course

No. 8 School of Technical Training (Weeton, Blackpool)

RAF Weeton
=========
Royal Air Force Weeton was opened as the home of No 8 School of Technial Training on 21st may 1940, and the Fabric Worker, Parachute Packer, Metal Worker, Mechanical Transport Mechanic and Motor Cyclist Courses were transferred there. Between 1st July and 3rd July 1940 31 Officers and 754 Men of the Polish Air Force arraived at RAF Weeton, after evacuation from France, Followed by a further 358 Polish personel two days later.

In July 1940, The Fire Fighting School was to transferred to RAF Weeton from Cranwell.
In September 1940 courses for Fitter Armourer and Aero Carpenter began and the trainees at Weeton assisted in the manufacture of the Hurricane and Spitfire parts for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. In December, 1940 the Mechanical TRansport School which had previously been locatedat No 3 Technical TRaining School blackpool moved to RAF Weeton and in December 1941 the M.T. Instructors Course commenced.

Between August 1940 and August 1942 a total of 41,863 personnel successfully passout from RAF Weeton including MT mechanics, Blacksmiths, Motor-cyclists, drivers, Crane Operators and Cooks to name only a few of the diverse trades in which courses were available there.
Between September 1941 and March 1942 the average personnel strength of the Station was approximately 9,000.

In August 1943 the Fire Fighting School left RAF Weeton and the RAF Police School arrived and remained there until moving to RAF Great Sampford in January 1946. 

other entries seem to be
AIR 29/501 No. 2 Personnel Despatch Centre Wilmslow 1940 Apr - 1947 Mar
found no record of  9 PDC

301 Maintenance Unit

sorry cannot shed any light on the  Seyc

Neil

[didactylos]

Thanks for your help Neil.