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World War Two / Re: Eighth Army abbreviations
« on: Thursday 31 January 19 16:26 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help me out please. My dad was in the eighth army www2. I am trying to help my great niece with a WW2 project for school. They have been asked to give details of any relatives who served in WW2
He was in active service 1939-45 and in Germany in 1946 ( I imagine as a peacekeeper or helping clearing up the mess or maybe dealing with the concentration camps )
I have his soldiers books and I am having a wee bit of trouble working out the abbreviations and I’m looking for help
Mostly re his training which is :-
Radar - Haifa
Attended light ..? course
D.M gas test BARA (I think this was to test the gas masks and recognising different gasses)
Bara ( Italy??)
Tested and passed out as driver d&m (group?) trg ? Wing the rest Is faint but ends with DRA or GRA
Drafted as Doyle? At RATD. CNF
I don’t know what light ? Course it’s/means
Unsure if Bara is Italy but I think it is
Don’t know what trg is and the words after are indecipherable DRA/GRA
Dont know what Doyle means (if it is Doyle)
I presume RATD is Royal Artilliary Territorial Dessert and CNF is Sicily Invasion Force
There’s also mention of RAMF or RHMF (could be Royal Artillery Munitions force or R A Military force ( I think this means he was also a gunner but unsure if it’s ramf or rhmf as writing is blurred
Any help much appreciated
He was in active service 1939-45 and in Germany in 1946 ( I imagine as a peacekeeper or helping clearing up the mess or maybe dealing with the concentration camps )
I have his soldiers books and I am having a wee bit of trouble working out the abbreviations and I’m looking for help
Mostly re his training which is :-
Radar - Haifa
Attended light ..? course
D.M gas test BARA (I think this was to test the gas masks and recognising different gasses)
Bara ( Italy??)
Tested and passed out as driver d&m (group?) trg ? Wing the rest Is faint but ends with DRA or GRA
Drafted as Doyle? At RATD. CNF
I don’t know what light ? Course it’s/means
Unsure if Bara is Italy but I think it is
Don’t know what trg is and the words after are indecipherable DRA/GRA
Dont know what Doyle means (if it is Doyle)
I presume RATD is Royal Artilliary Territorial Dessert and CNF is Sicily Invasion Force
There’s also mention of RAMF or RHMF (could be Royal Artillery Munitions force or R A Military force ( I think this means he was also a gunner but unsure if it’s ramf or rhmf as writing is blurred
Any help much appreciated