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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Ayashi on Thursday 08 August 13 22:24 BST (UK)
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I'm working through my grandfather's army records and it's mountain of handwriting (this thread is probably going to be ongoing as my progress moves though all the pages).
I have a few queries already ???
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There's a handwritten note at the top of the first page. Does anyone have any idea what any of this means? (apologies for large image, I can't figure out if it is possible to "spoiler" it on this forum)
(http://i.imgur.com/20bS80d.jpg)
"Specially retented"? "Authy" appears several times (which is shorthand for Authority?). And lots of code... obviously the last one is the date.
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My grandparents were in "Married Quarters Type A" c1948. What would this have been?
And the last one for today:
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(http://i.imgur.com/22OmDSC.jpg)
My grandfather's army movements... I can read all but the last one, which looks like "T Leone" but not only can I not find any such place, but his long version doesn't indicate that he went anywhere but home after being in Cyprus. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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On the last one....
I think it says T* Leave
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1) Could it say Specially Recruited or Enlisted
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Thanks both.
It could be leave, that would work, but what's T Leave? ???
It could say "enlisted" if I squint... this guy had terrible handwriting :-\
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Terminal Leave i believe .
Ady
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Ah, I guess that would make sense :) Like letting the children leave early on the last day of school...
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Not so much a free holiday as the leave entitlement that he had built up but not yet taken. Type A married quarters would have been a flat or, more likely, small house on or near the camp. Type A were, I think, the smallest and therefore the cheapest but what sort of property and whether it was owned by the Government or rented from a local landlord would depend on local conditions. The first one that I had, in 1971, was twelve miles from my barracks in Germany and rented from a German. Whatever rent the Army may have paid to the landlord, I paid the standard rent to the Army. I paid the same rent for my next one, in Lancashire, but it was a miserable dump by comparison and owned by the Government
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Thanks :) It doesn't surprise me that he had leave left over, my mother said he loved being in the Army. I don't suppose he really needed leave in the same way either, since my grandmother and his children moved around with him, so it wasn't like he was in another country for months.
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Maybe, but I never came across a soldier who didn't take all the leave he could get. The problem was that the army was usually only willing to let us go on leave when it suited them - which was rarely at the same time that we wanted to go.