Author Topic: Uniform I.D. please?  (Read 425 times)

Offline ALAMO2008

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,557
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Uniform I.D. please?
« on: Sunday 05 December 21 11:04 GMT (UK) »
Can someone identify whether the Groom's Uniform is Army or RAF please ?

CHAPMAN ROBINSON McKAY O'MALLEY

Offline Jebber

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 5,386
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Uniform I.D. please?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 December 21 12:56 GMT (UK) »
I'm not particularly  familiar with their uniform and badges but it looks like Royal Airforce, the Lower cloth badge possibly Leading Aircraftman.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Offline Crumblie

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 708
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Uniform I.D. please?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 05 December 21 13:24 GMT (UK) »
As Jebber says it is the Royal Air Force and he is a Leading Aircraftsman. Incidentally the RAF is becoming gender neutral and in future both airmen and airwomen will be known as aviators.

Offline ALAMO2008

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,557
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Uniform I.D. please?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 05 December 21 13:44 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everyone for your Time and Input

I thought it was RAF looking rather than Army

But what threw me was this Marriage in February 1946 was in Aldershot District of Marriage Registration.

Would there have been an RAF Base nearby ?
CHAPMAN ROBINSON McKAY O'MALLEY


Offline Jebber

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 5,386
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Uniform I.D. please?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 05 December 21 14:05 GMT (UK) »
Farnborough and Odiham to mention just two, there would have been others now no longer in existence.

Addendum

Just as a matter of interest, apparently there were 301 Airforce bases in the Uk during WW2. There were several within a few miles of where now I live, on the site of a disused airfield.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Offline ALAMO2008

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,557
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Uniform I.D. please?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 05 December 21 15:33 GMT (UK) »
Cheers everyone.
This helps solve alot.
CHAPMAN ROBINSON McKAY O'MALLEY

Offline candleflame

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,461
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Uniform I.D. please?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 05 December 21 17:01 GMT (UK) »
As Jebber says it is the Royal Air Force and he is a Leading Aircraftsman. Incidentally the RAF is becoming gender neutral and in future both airmen and airwomen will be known as aviators.

I can just picture my dads face if he’d been told about this name change to aviators lol . He’d have said aviators are people that fly and I didn’t fly!  ( he was ground crew wireless technician WW2)
North East of England