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Help with RA Tracer Card
« on: Sunday 09 February 20 03:13 GMT (UK) »
Could anyone help me please?

I would like to know which Regiments/Batteries he was with.

What do the numbers mean?  Was he with a Searchlight Regiment?

He was in Malta, North Africa then Italy.

Thank you!

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Re: Help with RA Tracer Card
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 09 February 20 09:30 GMT (UK) »
These cards give only the barest of information and this is, according to what you say about his service, is incomplete as all the regiments listed were Home Forces:

359 Battery in 40 Searchlight Regiment in Sep 1940 (on the Humber from Aug 40)
365 Battery in 83 SL Regt in Jan 1942 (in Crewe)
26 SL Regt (no battery noted) in Dec 44 (in Kent) - this became 630 Regiment in Jan 1945, their war diary is NW Europe.

For detail you will have to apply for his record:
https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/apply-for-someone-elses-records
MaxD
 

PS the Y List entry in Nov 41 was a short spell in hospital

I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
Zoe



Double  Essex/Suffolk
Randle/Millington Warwicks
Sokser/Klingler Austria/Croatia

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Re: Help with RA Tracer Card
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 09 February 20 12:44 GMT (UK) »
Thanks so much Max.  That's really helpful.  I'm in touch with his Granddaugher so we shall see what we can do about getting his papers.  Spell in hospital...interesting, methinks he might have got away lightly.

My next mission will be another Uncle who was taken prisoner of war in Italy.....

Thanks again

Val
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