I have come across the abbreviation MEF and have a list that says it stands for Marine Expeditionary Force amongst a couple of other thing. The information I have is "...posted to 20 workshop REME under the command of M.E.F on 8th August 1943" Marine Expeditionary Force doesn't seem to make sense...was there a Middle Eastern Force or something similar? Jules
Rosy - To expand on Rich's comment - MEF is indeed the Middle East Force which was mainly the Egypt and Desert campaign - and of course there were many other abbreviations such a NWE - North West Europe which was the D Day thingi and also BLA which was the British Liberation Army -(aka Brit Leave Army) after D Day ultimately BAOR - British Army on the Rhine -BNAF - British North Africa Force (Torch Landings Algiers etc)- CMF - Central Mediterranean Force inc Italy- Balkans etc - BEF - Brit Expeditionary Force ( Dunkirk et al) BI?F - Brit. Iraq and Palestine Force - then there was Burma We were spread pretty thin at times.. Cheers
Jules In April '43, on arriving in Algeria we became BNAF: British North Africa Forces In August '43 on arriving in Sicily we became CMF : Central Mediterranean Forces In August '44 on arriving in Egypt we became MEF : Middle East Forces In July '45 on arriving in ULM in Germany we still kept our CMF address The most important thing was that our mail always (eventually) found us Ron
Tom thanks for those - I have come across BNAF and CMF already but not the others. Ron - I now know (sort of where a couple of letters would have been written thanks for that!) Also please could you tell me what you did when you arrived in Ulm. I only live a cats jump from Ulm!
Jules Ulm ? Read all about it here: BBC - WW2 People's War - Running a Staging Camp in Germany, August 1945 I also devoted Page 30 of my Army Album to it (see below) The full Album is here: Ron Goldstein's Actual Army Album Ron
It's wrong :biggrin: . Definitely Middle East Force (I think it was called Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in WW1) Lesley
