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Title: Help Identifying Job
Post by: GemmaL on Monday 13 August 18 22:16 BST (UK)
I'm trying to identify the abbreviation written next to my 3x great uncle's job, I've tried doing some googling but haven't come up with anything.

Any help or ideas would be great

Image text: C.I.A.RO.F. Birtley Light Labouring Special Con.(?)
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: Viktoria on Monday 13 August 18 22:25 BST (UK)
I am not bringing up the whole line,all I can get is ;”Labouring Special Con”
I wonder if it is Constable,so he would be employed as a Labourer but serving as a Special Constable
also.Not sure if that would be a position with remuneration or if it was completely voluntary.
Can you post the whole line?
Not sure what the  C.I.A Ro F Birtly Lights bit is.
Hope this helps.         Viktoria.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: GemmaL on Monday 13 August 18 22:28 BST (UK)
Quote from: Viktoria on Monday 13 August 18 22:25 BST (UK)
I am not bringing up the whole line,all I can get is ;”Labouring Special Con”
I wonder if it is Constable,so he would be employed as a Labourer but serving as a Special Constable
also.Not sure if that would be a position with remuneration or if it was completely voluntary.
Can you post the whole line?
Hope this helps.         Viktoria.

That is the whole line sadly, the end of the 1939 census cuts off at Con.

If you can search the '39 register his name is Ralph Barren 24th Feb 1891
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: Viktoria on Monday 13 August 18 22:31 BST (UK)
Gemma I have added a bit to my first post. Viktoria.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: GemmaL on Monday 13 August 18 22:33 BST (UK)
Quote from: Viktoria on Monday 13 August 18 22:25 BST (UK)
I am not bringing up the whole line,all I can get is ;”Labouring Special Con”
I wonder if it is Constable,so he would be employed as a Labourer but serving as a Special Constable
also.Not sure if that would be a position with remuneration or if it was completely voluntary.
Can you post the whole line?
Not sure what the  C.I.A Ro F Birtly Lights bit is.
Hope this helps.         Viktoria.

I've been wondering if it's military related but I can't find anything even similar to it which is very odd
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: youngtug on Monday 13 August 18 22:36 BST (UK)
Royal Ordnance Factory. Birtley.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: GemmaL on Monday 13 August 18 22:38 BST (UK)
Quote from: youngtug on Monday 13 August 18 22:36 BST (UK)
Royal Ordnance Factory. Birtley.

Blimey I feel really stupid now, I should have known this!!
have you any idea what the C.I.A might mean?
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: youngtug on Monday 13 August 18 22:39 BST (UK)
Light Labouring.  Special Constable. as Viktoria said I would think.

Haven't a clue about the C.I.A. though.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: Viktoria on Monday 13 August 18 22:41 BST (UK)
Sorry Gemma,, I did not see the last line of your original post,I’ve been stating the blooming obvious.
Viktoria.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: GemmaL on Monday 13 August 18 22:43 BST (UK)
Quote from: Viktoria on Monday 13 August 18 22:41 BST (UK)
Sorry Gemma,, I did not see the last line of your original post,I’ve been stating the blooming obvious.
Viktoria.

It's no bother, I feel like an idiot not figuring RO.F meant Royal Ordnance Factory when I was literally researching it a few months back... doh!
Title: Re: Help Identifying Job
Post by: WolfieSmith on Tuesday 14 August 18 18:40 BST (UK)
Chief Inspector of Armaments. The team that inspected the shells etc rather than making them.

Alan.