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World War Two / Re: Help with missing information on dads army career.
« on: Friday 03 May 24 20:53 BST (UK)  »
This similar ticket seems to be dated 1978:

https://digitaltmuseum.no/021026294300/billett

and is embossed with the date at the top

Tony

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World War Two / Re: My father's "missing~" war years
« on: Friday 03 May 24 09:25 BST (UK)  »
Two points about conscription from 3 Sep 1939:

The first intake was absorbed into the army.
Men under 20 years old were initially not liable to be sent overseas, but this exemption was lifted by 1942.


Tony

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World War Two / Re: My father's "missing~" war years
« on: Friday 03 May 24 09:18 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps:

Entered under NS (AF) Act 1939


Tony

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World War Two / Re: Identifying an Old Uniform Button
« on: Friday 03 May 24 08:24 BST (UK)  »
Off a German Postman's uniform:

https://oberland.pl/pl/strona-glowna/5430-guzik-bundespost.html


Tony

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World War One / Re: RAMC soldier behind the lines
« on: Friday 03 May 24 05:11 BST (UK)  »
Light can travel in a vacuum.

A vacuum is empty space. There are no molecules of air or anything else in a vacuum. Like all forms of electromagnetic waves, light can travel through empty space, as well as through matter.


Tony

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World War One / Re: RAMC soldier behind the lines
« on: Thursday 02 May 24 07:49 BST (UK)  »
"What civilians don't appreciate is that when a canon makes a loud noise it also means that compressed air is heading towards the target and this can rock the brain inside the hard bony skull and injure the soft tissue - these soldiers will often never be freed from mental problems."

The statement above is misleading. Compressed air does not travel from a cannon to a target. The injuries referred to are due to an High Explosive artillery round detonating close to a victim. The resulting blast wave causes concussion.


Tony

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The Common Room / Re: census inNottinghamshire
« on: Wednesday 01 May 24 13:09 BST (UK)  »
You need to look at an original scan of the census, not a transcript.
The street name is often on the top line of the sheet or a previous sheet.
Or an earlier entry to the name you are looking for.

Tony

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Armed Forces / Re: Unknown Ribbon
« on: Monday 29 April 24 09:02 BST (UK)  »
Is it certain that the ribbon is for a medal?
There is a resemblance to the stretch bracelet below:

https://modesens.com/en-gb/product/ink-alloy-lapis-and-coral-stripe-stretch-bracelet-blue-64510647/


Tony

36
Europe / Re: KOSCIELMIAK. Poland/Germany
« on: Monday 29 April 24 06:57 BST (UK)  »
"In the final months of World War II, in March and April 1945, the Regensburg subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was located in the city, with 460 forced laborers of various nationalities, 40 of whom died."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg


Tony

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