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World War Two / Re: Deciphering Army Service History
« on: Monday 17 August 20 16:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Max. That is all really helpful - thanks for explaining things too as it is all a little beyond me!
The mention of Burma stands out as it is a long standing family story that Ron was in Burma during the war.
Just to put a face to the name, there is a photo I've had for years, which my Aunt Stella (Ron's Sister) had in her collection and she always said 'that's our Ron in the Burma jungle' - I've colourised the B&W photo - Ron is on the left.



Do you know what 'taken on strength' meant?

Also on another page of his army record it states:
(printed on form) 'Nature of Engagement' - written in here is 'AC' - do you know what this means?

Thank you :)


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World War Two / Re: Deciphering Army Service History
« on: Monday 17 August 20 14:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. The sections I'm having trouble with are:

Page 1

8/11/44

Page 2

24/11/44
3/5/45
27/7/45

Page 3

19/11/45
14/1/46
19/7/47

I hope that helps :)

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World War Two / Re: Deciphering Army Service History
« on: Monday 17 August 20 06:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for letting me know. I just edited the links. There is one link that shows all 3 images. Hopefully it should work now.

Thanks again  :)

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World War Two / Deciphering Army Service History
« on: Sunday 16 August 20 22:26 BST (UK)  »
The VJ Day 75 commemorations prompted me to get my Uncle Ronald Wallace Slade's WWII army service history out that I applied for a few years ago.
I have always struggled to read certain parts of the history as the handwriting isn't very clear. I had some help on this board a while ago but I still don't have everything deciphered, so I would really appreciate some help with this.

https://imgur.com/a/bmr1qT2

Many thanks in anticipation.




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I have some information about this family which might be of interest to you, but as your post is so old I'll wait for your reply as you may no longer be active on here.

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World War Two / Re: WW 2 - Army service record - where to post?
« on: Monday 21 September 15 17:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that Seaweed.

Does anyone know which ship B10 was for this voyage?

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World War Two / Re: WW 2 - Army service record - where to post?
« on: Saturday 19 September 15 19:51 BST (UK)  »
Here's page 2 of the same document - I've hosted it on an external site to allow for a larger size, hope this works! 

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World War Two / Re: WW 2 - Army service record - where to post?
« on: Saturday 19 September 15 19:37 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, I now have the Army Personnel Centre's full list of abbreviations, and CTBA is 'ceased to be attached' - so really it's the written info within that paragraph (now I have the abbreviations explained) that I'm trying to decipher.

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World War Two / Re: WW 2 - Army service record - where to post?
« on: Saturday 19 September 15 18:58 BST (UK)  »
Here's a cropped section of that hard to read section - at a higher resolution

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