WW1 handwriting help - Woman in RFC promotion,

Discussion in 'Prewar' started by RemeDesertRat, Aug 4, 2014.

  1. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    Researching a woman in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corp. Worked as a general clerk with the Royal Flying Corp, and had a promotion just before the founding of the WRAF in 1918, can't make out the handwriting? something pay?


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  2. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    P.S. what looks like it may be a dot above a letter i is in fact a very neat square on the original, so I think it is a scanning glitch.
     
  3. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    increase pay 1/- p/w....? (one shilling per week ?)
     
  4. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    Yup, I agree :)
     
  5. Trux

    Trux 21 AG

    That is impressive Rich. I can see now that you are correct but I could make nothing of it even though
    I spent three years deciphering ancient documents (well 17th and 18th Century).
    Decades ago I worked as a teacher.
    Have spent some years now reading War Diaries.

    Mike
     
  6. Bernard85

    Bernard85 WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    good day remedesertrat.very senior member,yesterday.04:05pm.re:ww1 handwriting help-women in rfc promotion.one shilling does not sound much by todays standard,but back then two pounds twelve shillings extra a year must have been great,equality was slow but they got there eventually.great post regards bernard85
     
  7. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    Wow, thats impressive Rich, I didn't even see the 1/- p/w underneath, it all makes sense now, thanks.

    Bernard, yes 1 shilling a week would have been quite a lot to a young girl in 1918.
     
  8. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    The odd thing is that I didn't really have to study it. It sprung out of the page. Maybe helped by the years that I spent in an old-fashioned insurance brokers in the pre-computer age and more recently 1930s motorcycle factory production records (and the good old Ministry of Supply files).
     
  9. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    Yes reading real handwriting is a dying art, wonder how future generations will cope? :)
     

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