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Help with abbreviations
« on: Friday 24 January 14 09:47 GMT (UK) »
Please can anyone help with translating some of the abbreviations I have on my father's WW2 war record.

ITC 54/41.  ITC 141/41. ITC 157/41.  113/42

WOUM.B/1080 (AG2B)

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Re: Help with abbreviations
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23 November 15 22:01 GMT (UK) »
I believe these are the training camps that he went thro in 1941/42. This would cover small arms, explosives etc.
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Re: Help with abbreviations
« Reply #2 on: Monday 23 November 15 22:20 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Algar on Friday 24 January 14 09:47 GMT (UK)
Please can anyone help with translating some of the abbreviations I have on my father's WW2 war record.

ITC 54/41.  ITC 141/41. ITC 157/41.  113/42

WOUM.B/1080 (AG2B)

Many thanks

Algar
WOUM.B/1080 (AG2B)

could possibly be a code for deployment overseas?   (AG2B)  may  be the convoy he was on OR  code for a particular ship, possibly?
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
Avies ~   Norwich

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Re: Help with abbreviations
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 November 15 19:39 GMT (UK) »
War Office Unit Movement may be the WOUM. My father's War service record includes this which usually coincides with him being shifted about.

AG2B: AG usually refers to Army Group. Trying to find out the 2B bit.

ITC: Infantry Training Centre. Typing in the numbers as well seems to constantly bring up Catterick, which was also an Officer Cadet Training Unit in the 1940s (Dad was there).

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Re: Help with abbreviations
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 25 November 15 18:32 GMT (UK) »
AG can also mean Adjutant General - a department of the War Office dealing with administration.  It was divided into sections dealing with different aspects and probably had reference numbers for its correspondence.

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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 25 November 15 19:52 GMT (UK) »
If "AG2B" was a convoy, then it may have been Alexandria to Greece, 1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_convoys_during_World_War_II_by_region

Following on from ainslie's suggestion, I found this:
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AG (1, 2, 3)    Adjutant General (1st, 2nd or 3rd Grade)
AGB    Adjutant General's Base

Maybe an amalgamation of both?
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