Help with RE tracer card -

Discussion in 'Royal Engineers' started by SteveB, Aug 16, 2021.

  1. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    Hi
    Could anyone shed any light on what the date on the attached might signify, and what the text, looks like MTTB, might mean?
    Thanks
    Steve
     

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  2. timuk

    timuk Well-Known Member

    Best guess MTTB = Motor (or Mechanical) Transport Training Battalion. Date being date of attachment or being sent on course.
    CMP (P) = Corps of Military Police (Prisoner)

    Tim
     
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  3. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    Cheers Tim, makes sense :)
     
  4. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    Prisoner because of Desertion ?
     
  5. David Woods

    David Woods Active Member

    5725927 Pte. E. J. Butler
    Dorsetshire Regiment
    Enlisted late 1930

    5725927 Spr. E. J. Butler
    Royal Engineers
    Enlisted 10.12.1937

    My best guess is that 15.06.1941 is his transfer to 3 M.T.D. B. 25/32 Swindon T.T. Group

    GBM_01110a.jpg

    Next entry states:

    Draft serial R.G.G.H.W. 15.08.1941
    (80/3 M.T. Trg. Depot)

    GBM_01110b.jpg

    Suggest M.T.T.B. should read M.T.T.D. or Motor Transport Training Depot.
     

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  6. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    I hadn't realised there was more than one page on FMP, cheers David. I'll have to check my other RE ones now. ( I have their medals)
     

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