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Dumfriesshire / Re: Catholic Apostolic Church (Irvingites)
« on: Monday 26 December 22 13:09 GMT (UK)  »
Coming very late to this useful thread.
I am interested due to my research into Dorothee Pullinger, an early female automobile engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doroth%C3%A9e_Pullinger

Her family were in the CA and she married in October 1924, in the CA church in Dumfries, now long gone, I gather.

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World War Two / Re: RAF Transit Personnel 22 PTC?
« on: Saturday 04 January 20 12:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
I have a letter from my father to my mother, from March 1946, so the place was obviously still in full swing in 1946. He has called it El Maya but it is obviously actually Al Maza. He was in a mobile unit waiting to be sent into Palestine where they were to set up a chain of GEE stations. They had been in other transit camps after getting off the troopship at Port Said.
I hope this is of interest. I LOVE the menu - from only a few months before my dad was there.

Nina

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Midlothian / Re: 1 Powburn, Edinburgh 1851
« on: Monday 13 February 17 13:15 GMT (UK)  »
This thread has been really helpful. I am doing a wee bit of research into women who owned and managed quarries and Rebecca Hutchison (nee Pearson 1842-?) was such a woman. Her family lived in the Galloway Lodge, Powburn, handily shown on the map linked above. Without that link I would not have known how to find a map like that for such a specific place.
Her mother was widowed in the late 1860s and seems to have continued her late husband's stone contracting business until the children, Rebecca and David took it over. They ran the quarry at Ratho until at least the 1890s but I am not sure after that, although it finally closed in the 1920s.
If anyone here wants more about them just let me know.

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World War Two / Re: OAG RAF Nickname ?
« on: Sunday 15 May 11 23:41 BST (UK)  »
I now think, from a later letter, that OAG, or O.A.G. was for something like Other Administrative Grade, as the man was a former bank clerk and the nickname is either given as OAG, "Oag" or O.A.G.

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World War Two / Re: OAG RAF Nickname ?
« on: Tuesday 10 May 11 13:49 BST (UK)  »
Good bit of sideways thinking! Ta

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World War Two / Re: OAG RAF Nickname ?
« on: Tuesday 10 May 11 09:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for doing that check for me, Heather.

It was such an odd name that I wondered about it, especially as it initially appears in quotes, which I thought one wouldnt do if it was the guy's ordinary surname. Also everyone else is referred to by nicknames, so it seems to have been quite the culture in that group.

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World War Two / OAG RAF Nickname ?
« on: Monday 09 May 11 22:03 BST (UK)  »
My father was in the RAF as a radar operator from 1942-46. In 1945-6 he was with a small unit that travelled around the middle east setting up small radar units.
In my father's letters and sketches there is someone he only identifies as Oag. At first he had the name in quotes: "Oag", so that I wondered if it was a nickname. Then I wondered if it was an acronym or slang for a rank or trade in the RAF.

It is such an odd nickname that I cannot think what it could be short for, or if slang what it could be.

Any ideas?

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World War Two / Re: RAF records
« on: Monday 09 May 11 21:13 BST (UK)  »
Bill,
You are a star! Is this from your own knowledge or is there a master list somewhere?
Many thanks
greensteam

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World War Two / Re: RAF records
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 18:22 BST (UK)  »
I would agree with the others about how useful the service sheets are. Some of what very very little my father did tell me was wrong anyhow!
Bill - my dad was in radar in the south of england and then Egypt, Libya, Jordan and Palestine, which I am still trying to unpick as the service record is sadly basic and I dont understand a lot of the acronyms.
Fortunately my mother kept his letters which are proving essential in putting any kind of location to the unit names.
If anyone can help with clarifying the following list of units from his service sheet, it would be most helpful.

1 ACRC
11 ITW
SHQ Susp section
216 MU
9 RS
BPSO HS
73 wing
Renscombe Down  GH Gers
RAF Thame MUE
RPDC
M East
21 PTC
219 group
AHQ(u) malta
ME
101 PDC Class b release

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