Going through my father's WWII war record, I have come another abbreviation I cannot work out: For the 'Acting, Temporary or Local Rank’, it says: ‘U/L/C’. L/C would be Lance-Corporal, I suppose. But why 'U'? Insight welcome. Thank you for your help.
Thanks: Very useful. Why 'unpaid'? It means you have the rank (of L/C) but you only get the pay of the lower rank (Private, I suppose): indeed, it says his rank was still Pte.
Definitely unpaid and overworked the P/L/c means he was paid an extra 3 pence per day- when someone died usually Cheers
Unpaid could be for a few reasons. It might have been probationary before full/paid rank, or very temporary to fill a short-term vacancy which meant reverting again to previous rank, or even after a demotion from full rank, man punished for some transgression but still needed to do the job.
