needing help decode this. he served with my grandfather and im helping his grand daughter research back too, can you give me any information up intil they embarked for africa?? anyone tell me what arnold is??
It seems you can't embed the image but just link to it. TIP: To avoid eggy face go Advanced and use Preview to check your posts ackle before submitting HTH other folks help you, Steve
Goblin - thanks for the link, besides discovering the fact that women from all over the world apparently want to meet me I can now see the point of the thread. I presume the soldier in question is Private W. Walker of the RAOC (19 Port Workshop Company). My guess is that Arnold is the name of a town, probably in the UK, that had a military presence during WW2 of at least a mobilisation centre. According to Wiki the two most likely towns were: Arnold is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) north of Hull city centre and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beverley town centre. It lies to the west of the A165 road which by-passes it. Together with the village of Long Riston it forms the civil parish of Riston. or Arnold is a market town and suburb of Nottingham, England. It is to the north-east of the city boundary, and is in the local government district of Gedling. **************************************** Less likely is the possibility that it refers to the town of Arnold in Victoria, Australia or one of the umpteen Arnolds in the USA...... *************************************************** To my next sources of confusion - what is an ackle?? what does HTH stand for? (help to help??) who is Steve? (is that Hutchie's real name???) cheers Dave (who said that research isn't fun?)
Not very scientific or corroborated but after a quick surf, saw this elsewhere. QUOTE I am looking for information on my grandfather.. who I believe resided in the Southampton area. In 1940 he served as a Private with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), Arnold near Nottingham... END QUOTE. best,
Initially he was posted to "a" coy No 3 Training Battalion as a storeman. Then moved from that to Driver. Then posted to Central Ordnance Depot (COD) at Chilwell. Then posted to Arnold Mobilisation Centre to be sent to 19 Port Workshop. The RAOC history confirms what others have said that Arnold is near Nottingham. It also says that No 3 Training Battalion was in Portsmouth and then moved to Hilsea. It says Leicester on his service records, so don't know why that is.
To my next sources of confusion - what is an ackle?? what does HTH stand for? (help to help??) who is Steve? (is that Hutchie's real name???) Sorry to mystify you Dave, Ackle (v) "to work or function as intended" HTH = Hope This/That Helps I'm Steve - hence the comma before it
hi thanks for the info. can anyone tell me what camas bexon & KGV is too?? and for the record my name is actually dave just been known as hutchie since i was 4 cause of my surname
Ah just read in Winston Specials that there was KGV Dock, Glasgow. That would tie in with the embarkation line.
Rosy seems to be on the right track - a little odd for being so generic but Acronym Finder's most likely interpretion of KGV (esp. given the V sandwiched between lines as a Roman Numeral) is "King George V (class of British battleship)". And there are plenty of places named Camas in Scotland to spend 10 days leave though the second line is far from easy to read at this resolution - my 'eye of faith' tending to read it as "B&K"<smudge>'N'. Any chance of blowing that up for the removal of doubt ?
Probably not Iona - though one of the Gazetteer for Scotland's 145 "Camas" matches I suspect the weather conditions in late January 1943 (WW2 winters being notoriously harsh) would have tended to rule out most of the Highlands & Islands. If he stereotypically went to family/friends it should help narrow down the options to know where they were at the time. However I still think the best key would be to decipher exactly what's written below "CAMAS" c/o a higher-resolution photo/scan. Steve
