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I agree with Royal Infirmary (Infy) but I think his home address is 100 Alt Street - notice that the 't' on 'St'  isn't crossed either.

There is an Alt St in Liverpool. It's in Toxteth, L8 2UF. I assume that's where the burial register is from (Scotland Rd lower down being a give-away). Poor lad (all of 18) is in Public Grave 274.

Any help?

Would it be safest to just give your father's name, date and place of birth and leave it to the MOD to find the correct service record? If there are any anomalies they will let you know and will (I presume) return your £30.

Sounds like a plan. I'll be sending off on behalf of my Mum so that'll save £30 

Ronald Heywood 2209142
Philip Grenville Roberts 2209068
Joseph Isaacs 2209130

The numbers are all very close...close enough for them to have enlisted together.

I reckon that's them. Thank you!

Do you know the name of the friends? Or just the one who was shotdown?

Unless he used a forged birth certificate he wouldnt have been allowed to enlist at 15, even if it was a deferred enlistment.

The friends were Phil Roberts (shot down, on CWWG site) and (I'm fairly sure) Joe Isaacs (also survived).

He wouldn't have forged a birth cert. Third one it is! Thank you!

I too doubt the middle one: I'm 99% sure he was never in the ATC, and Cardington is in Bedfordshire.

For the other two, would Padgate (which is Warrington) have been sending out recruitment teams over a wider area? He lived in Ellesmere Port.

I do know that he went and signed up with two school friends rather than be drafted, and then had to carry on doing whatever until they had their call-up. He had left school to work in the oil industry by then, but one of the others had already been called up, trained and shot down over the North Sea.