Hello scrimnet
The book I have is Army Book 64.
Soldier's Service and Pay Book and the notes of release etc. are in the back pouch.
So, at the beginning inside cover is all his personal garment sizes. The next page is his name and description on attestation. This is interesting and I don't know what it means: beside Approved society it is written = Hearts of Oak! and a memebership number. I wonder what that is.
he enlisted at Blandford on 25.9.41 for the N.S. Act. For duration of Emergency and then his signature.
Page 3 is his description on Enlistment and it says scar on left forehead (I never saw that) and lower than that is: A & S Gp: 4/c (
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Pages 4 and 4a are particulars of his training. The last training listed is Nov 12 to no 26 (sic) and it states: attended Course N.C.O. Infantry Course at Holzminder B.A.O.R. = passed and then there is a page of his innoculations.
Now to the pieces of paper at the back:
War Department driving permit. It does say w/Sgt Fitzgerald and on the back it it stamped School of Arty 07 Sep 1946 BAOR
There's a card that says: national Service Acts, 1939-1941 certificate of registration.
There's another national Service (armed forces) Acts card...it is a Grade Card.
It says my dad was medically examined and placed in grade one. I wonder now as i look closer, if he had a pal as a name and address can be faintly seen with a magnifying glass written on this card.
The next one is salmon coloured and paper and it says pay form R.3 Release from the army - pay arrangements. There was obviously a postal draft attached. His release serial number is written down.
Since first listing, I came across another important clue written on an army form (C348) MEMORAMDUM....the other posters who helped me were correct I think.
This memorandum says: from so and so to W/Sgt (Fd), Footseray(sp?) and my dads name. My dad is changing his address and returned his army forms to do so and the army states "your correct rank rank is W/Sgt and the regimental paymaster R.a. (Field) has been notified." They tell him to retain one specific form as proof of his transfer to the army reserve and the other form is for presentation to the regimental Association which he may be desirous of joining or from which he may require assistance.
That's what I have if it is any help. If you can shed any more light on what he did I would appreciate it.
p.s. I see in the book where the army has written when he took leave, but not when he was in hospital from wounds he had from shrapnel. Why would this be please?
shash
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