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Offline hepburn

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Royal Artillery
« on: Friday 06 July 07 23:03 BST (UK) »
Could someone please explain what this means?
  113 Bty., 27 Lt A.A.Regiment., Royal Artillery.
                     

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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #1 on: Friday 06 July 07 23:08 BST (UK) »
Ricky (1954 - 2010)

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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #2 on: Friday 06 July 07 23:11 BST (UK) »
Thanks Ricky
                    I'll go with that one then :)
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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #3 on: Friday 06 July 07 23:12 BST (UK) »
Hi Hepburn

Your welcome, my dad was in the RA in the second world war ;)

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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #4 on: Friday 06 July 07 23:54 BST (UK) »
Ricky ,
         was he in Africa 1943??
 trouble is,I still don't know what it means..
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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 07 July 07 00:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Hepburn

I know he was captured in North Africa during the war.I have his paperwork somewhere will have to look it up

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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 07 July 07 00:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Hepburn,

I'm thinking Bty is his Battery and A.A. is anti-aircraft (or ack-ack as my dad called it), I think the Lt just means Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment but I don't know.

My dad was in the Royal Artillery but the paperwork is long gone that would say what his Battery/Regiment were.  I'm trying to get together enough information to send off for his records.  He was based in the UK for part of the war and in India at the end of the war and had to wait to come back.
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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 07 July 07 00:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Hepburn

if you go to this website, it is full of info about the RA

http://www.ra39-45.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/


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Re: Royal Artillery
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 07 July 07 11:25 BST (UK) »
Thanks Ricky and Dud,
                                   I do need things spelled out for me,don't I ? ;D.
                            Hepburn..
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