I am going through my father's WWII army record (British Army) and have found the following mentions:- CTB E [or B: not very legible] to Med Allce I take it to mean 'Ceased to be Entitled to Mediterranean [theatre] Allowance". Is this correct? He was going on 28 days' leave at the time. The problem is that the line below seems to state the opposite with the mention:- Detrained CMF [Central Mediterranean Force: he had been fighting in Italy] from 28 days [shouldn't it be: "for 28 days"?] leave + entl [= entitled?] to Med Allce [see above] This was in 1944. Explanations welcome. Thanks for your help. P.
Phillip when ANYONE left Italy - for whatever reason - in this case LIAP -( leave in addition to Python) the Med. allowance stopped with a screech which could be heard all over the Mediterranean- and very quietly added on one's return- after all it WAS 3d per day Cheers
Tom, So you confirm my understanding of the notes. And I should read the 2nd mention as confirming that the Med Allowance was stopped while my father was on leave, presumably back in England. Good night Philip
Philip Just in case you wanted any further confirmation of how, at the drop of a hat, the Army could dock your overseas allowance. In October 1946 the 4th QOH held their first post-war re-union in London. It was decided that 36 men from the Regiment would be released from duties in Trieste and I was one of four very lucky Corporals. We were away from our unit from 15/10/46 until 23/10/46..... a total of 8 days An entry in my records shows how the Army made sure I lost the princely sum of 3 pence overseas allowance during my enforced absence from the Regiment. The entry in my records states: 15/10/46 Entrained (Villach) for Regimental Duties (Churchill Dinner) (Trieste) Now see the extract from my records below Sent from my iPad
Ron, Excellent! At least your records are typed up! My father's are all scrawled by various hands and some of it is barely legible, to which of course you must add the issue of abbreviations: it can take me 45 minutes to decipher 2 lines. :biggrin: Then again, I never fought in WWII. Another story on invoicing all and sundry: I knew a French university professor who was of part-Russian origin and part-Canadian. He spoke many languages and ended up in the Intelligence Corps, interrogating suspected Nazis in 1945 Germany. When he fled France, as the Germans were advancing, at the start of the war, he travelled down to Marseille and embarked on a British ship that took him to England, where he joined the British Army. After the war, the British authorities presented him with the bill for the journey by boat from Marseille to England. :P
