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Messages - Andy J2022

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Kilkenny / Re: Knocktopher
« on: Yesterday at 15:05 »
The chances are that he was agent to the Langrishe family who lived in Knocktopher Abbey and owned much of the land in and around the village. I would suggest checking the Griffiths Valuations to see if a land agent's house is mentioned (follow the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia article).

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Armed Forces / Re: Seaforth Highlanders
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 17:13 BST (UK)  »
OK, but I wouldn't have thought it was that accurate, unlike say when prewar regimental numbers can provide a close bracket of dates for enlistment.
I'm sure you are familiar with Chris Baker's article on the subject over on the Long, Long Trail

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Armed Forces / Re: Seaforth Highlanders
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 15:29 BST (UK)  »
Jim,

Why do believe that men with similar numbers might have been demobbed about the same time? Men were demobbed based on their personal circumstances, theatre of operations, category of reserve, and things like whether their employer had claimed them. I don't think it has ever been suggested that demobilisation would have based (solely or largely) on their Army number.

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World War Two / Re: Uniform ID
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Peggy,

I assume that you know who he is. You can look him up in the Navy Lists. If you have a subscription to Ancestry, these are available in the collection UK Navy lists 1888-1970, or if you don't have a subscription, you can search manually through the pages of the collection held by the National Library of Scotland

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World War Two / Re: Uniform ID
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 13:45 BST (UK)  »
LOL, no, not a bus conductor. He's a midshipman in the Royal Navy.

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Armed Forces / Re: Seaforth Highlanders
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 10:50 BST (UK)  »
Also, have you seen the Morayshire Roll of Honour which records his service (but not his date of discharge)? I think it contains an error in that it says he enlisted at Elgin in Oct 1915, yet his medal index card says he went to France in Sep 1915, so earned his 14/15 Star.

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World War Two / Re: Help please in deciphering my Father's WW2 RAF Service Record
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 19:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: KathrynBryant1 on Tuesday 14 May 24 15:47 BST (UK)
Sorry if I'm becoming a pain, but what does D2E mean against 41 Squadron on Dad's Record in 1943 please?
Sorry, I don't know that one. It's not a medical category.

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World War Two / Re: Help please in deciphering my Father's WW2 RAF Service Record
« on: Monday 13 May 24 22:51 BST (UK)  »
I think it might be best if you say which bits you would like explaining. I may be able to do most of the abbreviations, but that doesn't necessarily mean you understand the full version.

Just for starters,  on the image ending 2836, your dad was awarded the Burma Star (for his time with 117 Sqdn I'm guessing), and the 1939/45 Star which was awarded to all servicemen/women who served in an operational theatre of war for 180 days. Then in the centre of the image he was awarded the War Service Increment (WSI) initially for 3 years when he was on active service, which was then increased to 5 years (ie from 1940 to 1945) to also cover his time on the reserve. This was cash gratuity, in part to help service personnel resettle into civilian life and pick up their old job etc.

Then on image ending 3348, you will know most of the details anyway. ACSB in the centre bottom is the Aircrew Selection Board.

Let me know if you want anything else explaining.

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World War Two / Re: Help please in deciphering my Father's WW2 RAF Service Record
« on: Monday 13 May 24 16:22 BST (UK)  »
The first image shows his postings/employment and the second has his movement details.
Image One.
16 RC - Recruit centre. At RAF Ouston
116 Squadron  This was an anti-aircraft calibration unit. They flew sorties to allow the Army's ground based anti-aircaft gunners to calibrate their guns for various altitudes and speed of aircraft. The Sqdn was split up across the country, but he appears to have been based at RAF Digby.
No 2 School of Technical Training. From image 2 we know that his trade was Flight Mechanic (Aircraft) (FMA).
He was then posted to 41 Squadron which was part of Fighter Command and equipped in Spitfires. The Squadron was then based an RAF Llanbedr, in Wales.
5 PDC Personnel Distribution Centre. A place where service men were brought together prior to moving by sea on overseas postings.
He then served in 322 Maintenance Unit (Cawnpore, Uttar Pradesh, India) and 12 General Mainenance Unit
117  Sqdn, also in India and supporting operations in Burma.
3  REC  - not sure but seems to be an embarkation centre ready for his return to the UK
104 Personnel Distribution Centre for final administrative details prior to being demobbed.
The Qualifications section shows the aircraft he was qualified to work on. I can't make out the first entry. The next is Hurricane, and the last is the (Douglas) Dakota.
Finally for the first image, his ranks.
AC 2 is Aircraftman class 2 (lowest rank), LAC is leading aircraftman  and then he reverts to AC1 Aircraftman class 1, followed by another stint as an LAC.


I have to go out now and so unless someone else does the second image in the mean time, I'll do that later. However you should be able to make sense of it based on the contents of image one.
 


 

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