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Armed Forces / Re: Deciphering my grandfather's army records (1933-1959)
« on: Friday 09 August 13 00:40 BST (UK)  »
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.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Henry and Leah Norah (Lilly) Folland
« on: Friday 09 August 13 00:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Stephen,
50 years ago I went through Sandhurst with David Folland and have only just learned of his tragic death.  There is a huge gap in my knowledge of him between about 1965 when, I assume, he left the UK and 2009. If there is anything you can tell me to fill in the blank I would be most grateful.
Mark Robinson

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Armed Forces / Re: Deciphering my grandfather's army records (1933-1959)
« on: Friday 09 August 13 00:14 BST (UK)  »
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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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: army soldier
« on: Thursday 08 August 13 23:19 BST (UK)  »
There are quite a number of circular army cap badges with a crown on the top. The RAMC central motif is a serpent which gives the whole badge an open look.  This one seems rather closed and it doesn't look as though it has the motto underneath that an RAMC badge would have. 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date and ID of Photo of British soldier from Ranikhet, India
« on: Thursday 08 August 13 22:57 BST (UK)  »
The collar badges are not clear enough to be sure but they look very like the globe and laurel of the Royal Marines.

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