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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Devsom on Monday 15 July 24 09:49 BST (UK)
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I'm having difficulty deciphering where a driver in the British Army was based in 1941 on a WW2 service record. The place name is above the red arrow.
The record states that he had been at a driving school in Blackdown (an army camp in Aldershot), then went to Lurgan followed by Bambridge in Northern Ireland. He was then with the 2nd Anti Aircraft Division of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in August 1941 but I can't read the place name. I'm unsure if it's the name of a town or a camp.
To me it looks like C?nupton. He then moved on to Market Drayton.
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I saw "Compton", but I don't live in the UK or Ireland so I don't know if that would be a logical place for him to be.
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Also Compton but I don't know of the place :-\
Kay
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I don't see that first letter as a C, look at the other C's in the writing,they're much plainer.
But I don't know what it does say :P
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Possibly an abbreviation of Cullompton. There was an Ordnance sub-depot there:
https://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/ordnance-sub-depot-cullompton-devon.69206/
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Maybe RAF Compton Bassett in Calne Wiltshire. It was used for radar training
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Thanks for the suggestions. I think the first letter is ‘C’ because in the unit column it says he was with ‘Coy. RAOC’ which would be Company of Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The C of Coy looks like the first letter of the word I can’t read.
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Perhaps an elaborate C used to indicate an abbreviation. C[ull]ompton Co[mpan]y
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11 Anti Aircraft Division Workshops Company RAOC was part of 54 Anti-Aircraft Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Anti-Aircraft_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)) which at that time was based in the West Midlands. On that basis, I would hazard a guess that, if it is Compton, then the place being referred to is the Compton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton,_Wolverhampton), near Wolverhampton.
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Thank you