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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: toby webb on Thursday 24 September 20 17:17 BST (UK)
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Looking at some letters of that time, I came across abreviations & some jargon which the recipient of the letters would have immediately understood. Not me however. Can anyone help?
The background are letters from a RAF hospital ward.
G.C.In
Aug O.S.P.
S.I.List
O.A.Pageant
and finally 'puggled'. Definitely not 'puzzled'
Thanks for any help. Toby.
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SI List - seriously ill list
Puggled - knackered
MaxD
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Thanks MaxD
Seriously sick list fits very well although I still don't know the reason.
Puggled I would never have guessed.
Do you think that Aug OSP could have anything to do with mail arriving in August?
T
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The context very often helps with abbreviations.. Would you like to post the sentences in which the others appear at least ideally with anything that seems to be related. Was he/she a patient or staff?
MaxD
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G.C. - can be abbreviations for two STDs
JM ..
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Here are the contexts. I didn't give them from the beginning as I didn't want to influence free thinking:-
The Aug O.S.P. has just arrived today for which many thanks. I haven’t read it yet just had a look at the pictures and the poems.
Did you see in the Aeroplane of a fortnight back, the announcement of Basil Embry’s engagement - also Boxall??? Discharged the service as the result of a G.C.In.
I can just imagine him puggled with joy upon the receipt of his great news & executing one of his special Highland fling cum can-can dances as he used to with the opening speech of Red Lips
You mentioned in your letter that the O.A. & pageant program were being forwarded, but since they haven’t arrived yet I suppose the PO have bloomered.
Thanks for the help, T
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My suggestion is that both the OSP and the OA were perhaps newspapers that the family sent regularly. Guess - Ormskirk Advertiser and something. Whatever, they were something he was reading.
If the last digit after GC is actually an M I'd go for General Court Martial. Something that got a man dismissed the service. .
Not really RAF jargon - the context here tells a good part of the story.
MaxD
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My suggestion is that both the OSP and the OA were perhaps newspapers that the family sent regularly. Guess - Ormskirk Advertiser and something. Whatever, they were something he was reading.
If the last digit after GC is actually an M I'd go for General Court Martial. Something that got a man dismissed the service. .
Not really RAF jargon - the context here tells a good part of the story.
MaxD
OSP - Ormskirk Saturday/Sunday Post ??
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Here-aboots we use Puggled for drunk! ;D In the Scots dictionary also.
Skoosh.
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An internet search provides a number of definitions of puggled which include both exhausted and drunk:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=puggled - has a reference also to Lallans usage.
As with the others, the context here helps greatly by suggesting gobsmacked rather than exhausted or drunk.
MaxD
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Sorry MaxD & philipsearching. I could have made it easier. The letter was posted from RAF Sarafand Hospital in Palestine. You may be right with your suggested newspapers for currently I don't know the home of the patient or anything much about him except his signature 'Darkie'. The illness that hospitalised him for over a year is also not yet identified.
Anyway, thank you all for letting me make some progress. T