Where and what was 43 Stn?

[fisherj]

Thank you for your interest in my query BushInn1746.

Joseph Gallagher enrolled in the RFC as a 2AirMech in July 1917 and became a 3AirMech when the RAF was formed in April 1918.

There is a lot of information on the internet about the role of the RFC/RAF during WW1 - amazing when you consider the first (successful) flight across the Channel was only in 1909.

I have JG's service and pension record info from Fold3/Ancestry - hence my wanting to establish what and where 43 Stn was.  What consituted a "Stn" as opposed to a "TS".

[grandarog]

May be a red herring ,but have you considered Stn might have been a a miswrite for Sqn (Squadron ) Logical after training to be posted to a Squadron in his case 43 Squadron RFC.

[Andy J2022]

May be a red herring ,but have you considered Stn might have been a a miswrite for Sqn (Squadron ) Logical after training to be posted to a Squadron in his case 43 Squadron RFC.

Grandarog, yes I made the same suggestion as you in the OPs other thread on the subject. However as you can see by the next posting in that thread, there is no doubt about the transcription being correct.

[fisherj]

Thanks for your comments Grandarog and Andy.

I have wondered whether "43 Stn" referred to some medical centre since he was discharged on health grounds on leaving this "unit".

But I have been unable to find any other entry of "43 Stn" relating to another serviceman so can't quite make sense of this.

There is the 43 Training Depot Station at Chattis Hill that is a possibility...  But why didn't the person filling in the form write "TDS"??

(I have put this query on other forums but not had an obvious answer for what could be called a Station.  I'm wondering whether whatever facility it was was situated close to a Railway Station - No. 43!)  Is it at all possible that Railway Stations in England given numbers during the war??

Thanks anyway for reading my post.