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World War Two / Re: RAF Service Record - Identifying Units
« on: Saturday 08 August 09 06:34 BST (UK) »
I should have added that the (P) in xx (P) AFU is Pilots'
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World War Two / Re: RAF Service Record - Identifying Units
« on: Friday 07 August 09 21:53 BST (UK) »
17 (P) AFU and 11 (P) AFU -
The expansion of AFU is Advanced Flying Unit
54 MU is 54 Maintenance Unit
Could 241 xxxx possibly be 241 Squadron?
The expansion of AFU is Advanced Flying Unit
54 MU is 54 Maintenance Unit
Could 241 xxxx possibly be 241 Squadron?
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Armed Forces / Re: Badge identification
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 12:36 BST (UK) »
You're more than welcome - I enjoy researching such things (42 years in the Army helps!) If I can help again, just ask.
Mike
Mike
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Armed Forces / Re: Badge identification
« on: Wednesday 22 July 09 21:55 BST (UK) »
The grenade badge worn on the left breast was to indicate that the ATS lady concerned was serving with a Royal Artillery unit (almost invariably an Ant-Aircraft Regiment. This is born out by the cloth patch on her right arm in the second photo - a red witch on a blue rectangle - the formation sign of 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (which was mostly located in The Midlands and North of England). This sign ceased to be worn in 1943.
Mike
Mike
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Armed Forces / Re: mnbdo royal marines
« on: Wednesday 22 July 09 21:35 BST (UK) »
MNBDO
Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation
Largely RM organisation for the defence against ground and air attack of a deployed naval base in WW2.
MNBDO 1 served initially in UK, then Crete, then elsewhere in the Middle East and latterly in Ceylon.
Mike
Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation
Largely RM organisation for the defence against ground and air attack of a deployed naval base in WW2.
MNBDO 1 served initially in UK, then Crete, then elsewhere in the Middle East and latterly in Ceylon.
Mike
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World War Two / Re: Royal Artillery
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 19:01 BST (UK) »
27 LAA Regt:
I can add that this unit was formed in Nottinghamshire on 28 Aug 39 and consisted of 6/2, 107, 113/128 and 149 Batteries. The Unit was reduced to cadre at Tobruk on 14 Mar 44, placed in suspended animation on 4 Feb 46 but reconstituted at 527 LAA/SL (Searchlight) Regt RA (TA) on 1 Jan 47.
Mike
I can add that this unit was formed in Nottinghamshire on 28 Aug 39 and consisted of 6/2, 107, 113/128 and 149 Batteries. The Unit was reduced to cadre at Tobruk on 14 Mar 44, placed in suspended animation on 4 Feb 46 but reconstituted at 527 LAA/SL (Searchlight) Regt RA (TA) on 1 Jan 47.
Mike
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World War Two / Re: William Connor Birchall - Desert Rat
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 17:11 BST (UK) »
The 11th Hussars link.
Please enter it manually with one alteration:
replace the upper case H in Hussars
with a lower case h (as in hussars)!
It worked perfectly form just now.
Mike
Please enter it manually with one alteration:
replace the upper case H in Hussars
with a lower case h (as in hussars)!
It worked perfectly form just now.
Mike
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World War Two / Re: Royal marines 1940- 1946
« on: Monday 20 July 09 21:19 BST (UK) »
HBL 
- a component of an MNBDO?
MNBDO - Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (1 MNBDO served in UK - 1940-41), Crete, Egypt, Syria and from 1943 Ceylon)
HMS Volcano - was the RN Bomb and Munitions Training School located at Holmrook Hall, Cumbria.
Odyssay (actually HMS Odyssey - the Accounting Base of detached Naval Parties (as NP 1732) - HMS Odyssey was located in the Collingwood Hotel, Ilfracombe.
Mike
- a component of an MNBDO?MNBDO - Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (1 MNBDO served in UK - 1940-41), Crete, Egypt, Syria and from 1943 Ceylon)
HMS Volcano - was the RN Bomb and Munitions Training School located at Holmrook Hall, Cumbria.
Odyssay (actually HMS Odyssey - the Accounting Base of detached Naval Parties (as NP 1732) - HMS Odyssey was located in the Collingwood Hotel, Ilfracombe.
Mike
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World War Two / Re: William Connor Birchall - Desert Rat
« on: Monday 20 July 09 21:00 BST (UK) »
To my astonishment I have found the World War 2 War Diaries of the 11th Hussars on the Internet:
www.warlinks.com/armour/11_Hussars/index.html
A bit of light reading for you (and you'll learn exactly where the regiment was on D Day
Mike
www.warlinks.com/armour/11_Hussars/index.html
A bit of light reading for you (and you'll learn exactly where the regiment was on D Day
Mike