Hello Everyone I hope someone might be able to educate me, so i can in turn educate some older relatives. While clearing out a garden shed the other day, i came across some old letters, written to my mother in laws grandmother during the WW2, dated 1940-41. They are badly faded / damaged so working out the detail contained within them is quite hard. No one has really spoken about family for years, but i am intrigued by these letters, some of which i have managed to decipher etc, but a few, i am struggling with. The author has given his address etc as DVR 124213 E Platoon 279 G T Coy RASE (but could be a "C") and another as DVR 124213 E Platoon 279 G T Coy 1544 LAA REGT RA RASE (but could be a "C") I am assuming it is a transportation unit of some kind, but i am a novice at this, so any help identifying what the Regt would have been, where they might have been etc, would be much appreciated. Many Thanks Richie
Richie - Looks like he was a driver in a General Transport unit of the RASC attached to a Light Ack- Ack regiment of the Royal Artillery .They were all over the place so we would need more to find out where they were - at anytime ! Cheers
I am assuming its Light Anti Aircraft Reg, Royal Artillery, but there are others far more qualified than me that would be able to help.
Richie - Looks like he was a driver in a General Transport unit of the RASC attached to a Light Ack- Ack regiment of the Royal Artillery .They were all over the place so we would need more to find out where they were - at anytime ! Cheers You beat me to it Tom
Richie, Hello and welcome to the forum. It looks like all your initial questions have been answered. Regards Tom
"DVR 124213" would I be right to assume that is a service number and, if so, that the chaps Service Record will be available to next of kin (for a fee and 6month wait) from the MoD? best regards and welcome to the forum
Welcome to the forum Army service number showing Royal Army Service Corps (Block 1) http://www.corpsofmilitarypolice.org/tools/armynumber?query=124213 link below for service records Ministry of Defence | About Defence | What we do | Personnel | Service Records | Making a Request for Information held on the Personnel Records of Deceased Service Personnel
Thanks for the assistance and the welcomes, its much appreciated. So how does one go about trying to find out where abouts he was at any given time?? I intend to get the service record of this particular chap and another......does anyone know, what details you get for your fee??? Richie
Richie - technically for the 30GBP you should get verse and chapter of anyone's service - but as we all know there are many gaps for various reasons and so it's very much of what they have - you get - as we see from EXPAT 1968 - this is NOTTA LOT ! Cheers