WW2,Can anyone identify my Dads regiment?

[MacKenzie Clow]

Hi Ann, I copied and sent your photos to a friend who is a Canadian Military Historian as from what I said he seems to prove the regiments you may think are right, are not possible. He viewed the images and this is his reply.  He also posted an image of the Royal Engineers cap badge, which I'm going to try and save and upload here now... good luck: poop ... I can't remember how to upload ... will try something else...

Hi Karmen;

I still don't know where "R.C.T." came from, but its not that or RASC (Royal Army Service Corps). I'd have to say, that from what I can make out, he served with the Corps of Royal Engineers (RE), judging by the cap badge visible in one photo and the equipment in the other.
Cheers

[Guinevere]

Hi Mackenzie.Wow thanks for copying for your friend,i was trying to make out the letters on his sleeve,i cant even see a cap badge,hehe,old eyes methinks!!.loll.
Hmm,this plot thickens huh?.i wish i could get a bigger copy of the lightened pic that was posted,i could take it to our local store,and they are great at blowing up images,or maybe i could get one of the group here that specializes in making old pics good.
I keep trying hard to work out the lettering under the words i think are R.C.T,i just keep coming up blank,i think is it a seven or an h?,loll,i do remember my sister saying something years ago,and indeed she wrote it on back of one pic "8th". I'm guessing thats a regiment?i wish i knew more about our services,to my shame i dint.
o looked at a few sites yesterday about .R.C.T but cant find any uniform,i know they have been turned into the logistics corp now,maybe a letter to their head office,i will have to try to find the Addy,maybe its Aldershot.Boy,I'm dreaming about this a lot,he he,or is it nightmares!ROFL.Take care.Love Ann.xxxxxx

[deadants]

Hi Guinevere,
     do you have  access to these photos? If so can you get someone to rescan them to a larger resolution as it would make identifying things a lot easier.

deadants

[Guinevere]

Hi again,ive hopefully made these pics bigger as asked for.The first pics i used were only little more than passport size,so i just took them to a shop and they made them a bit bigger,so hope it goes through here,im not sure how big i can go here.

[Guinevere]

ive tried to post these photos several times but it keeps saying file already in use,and its not so im stumped.lol

[Guinevere]

ive tried to post these photos several times but it keeps saying file already in use,and its not so im stumped.lol

Oh my dads third from right,i still think the uniform thing on sleeve says something like R.C.T xxxx

[joboy]

Possible he was in the REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) they were prominent in the IOW during latter part of WW2.
Try this email address for a link to an historian who covers REME in IOW at that time;
george@hillis211.fsnet.co.uk
The web page is;
http://www.army.mod.uk/reme/association/
Good Luck
Joboy

[Guinevere]

oh thank you joboy,i will write to them and send copies ogf pics to see what they think.
Have a great week.Love Ann.xx

[Gardener]

Hi Ann,

Yes those initials do stand for the Royal Corps of Transport. I have been looking through my books to find a picture of the cap badge for you. Unfortunately I can only find one post 1953 with the present Queens crown.
I cannot find a trace of one at all prior to that with a Kings crown, which is what it would have had in WW11.
Tom

It says on the following site that the RCT was formed in 1965 so that would explain why you can't find one pre EII.
And also rules it out for Ann's father in the 2nd WW

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/corps/RCT.htm