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New poster - hopefully not a stupid question - Mil
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Kathryn | Report | 4 Jul 2009 22:18 |
Hi all, have been using the site for a while and browsing the boards, and am now trying to go a bit further than the standard bmd and census records. I have a in my family papers what appear to be copies of two WWII 'telegrams' home from one of my relatives to his parents. One is a christmas postcard dated November 1944 and the other a letter dated July 1943. The christmas postcard has on it 'Military Airgraph Service Authorised by Egyptian Postal Administration' and nearby a six digit code - 669998. Unfortunately on the other the country in the same phrase is obscured by what also looks like a series of numbers, rendering both pieces on info illegible. On both cards is the same name and number information Stockton 5056656, B Squadron SOM R.T.R. On the christmas card there follows letters C.PI.F and on the July letter B.N.A.F |
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Joy | Report | 4 Jul 2009 22:30 |
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Kathryn | Report | 4 Jul 2009 23:08 |
Many thanks Joy, I see it now, so will go and take notes! |
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George_of_Westbury | Report | 5 Jul 2009 00:04 |
Kathryn |
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Researching: |
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Kathryn | Report | 5 Jul 2009 00:22 |
A bit more searching and deciphering, and I've found that it's not SOM R.T.R but 50th R.T.R - so he was in B Squadron, 50th battalion, Royal Tank Regiment. Already something more to go on - I now know the July 1943 letter is just after the invasion of Sicily (my grand-uncle talks about 'looking over the plain to the slopes of Mt Etna'), and that the battalion was one of those at El Alamein. Still struggling with some of the other letters though - definitely don't think it's C.PI.F, but probably C.M.F. |
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mgnv | Report | 5 Jul 2009 03:26 |
D-Day for Sicilly was 10/7/1943. It took 39 days to complete the occupation of Sicilly. |
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Kathryn | Report | 5 Jul 2009 07:38 |
George - thanks, I'll definitely check out the link but I probably won't qualify as NOK if there are descendants of his own. I'll need to follow that up too. |