My Dads WW2 photo album 1942 -1946

[cbhasin]

Apologies , I tried several times to upload and it kept saying the file was too big. Im not great on the computer ! Will try again.
Chris

Sorry not much bigger now but it wont let me upload original size.

[jim1]

You need to cut off the white space as this increase the filesize,
By the way you describe it sounds like the Staffordshire Knot the emblem of the Staffs.

[cbhasin]

O thankyou yes its the staffordshire knot !!
Chris

Trying again with pictures I need my daughters to help !

[cbhasin]

There  big Now !!

[ainslie]

Your description of the insignia on the athletics kit sounds like the Staffordshire Knot, used by both North and South Staffs Regiments.

A

[Drew5233]

T Bn  NSR stands for Training Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. Whilst that is a step forward it doesn't help you out a great deal. Firstly he would have been posted to a unit after training so he could have gone to whatever unit the Army decided he was needed, battlefield casualty replacement in any unit or increasing the Orbat (Order of Battle) in a local regiment. I'd be pretty confident in saying he stayed in a infantry unit as they had one of the highest casualty rates during WW2. Once the Allies gained air superiority in 1944 over Europe they started disbanding AA Artillery regiments and turning them into Infantry units because the British were so short of men. It happened even earlier in Africa and Italy.

Anyway I digress - I say this all the time but Service Records are what you need to ID what units he served with.

[RRTB]

cbhasin:

As Andy just said, Service records are the most useful things you can get. I will vouch for that having asked my mother about 2 years ago to apply for my father's. It was free for her to do so as Andy said, and the only cost for me was to obtain a copy of Dad's death certificate which is also required by the MoD for Service records to be issued.

It was a very very worthwhile thing to do, so I can only encourage you to apply for them.

RRTB

[Keinnaf]

great to have some photos from then. 3 of my 4 grandparents were in the forces in WW2 and my father in law too but the only photos we have are one of each of my grandparents in their uniform. nothing else.

Definitely get the service records. 2 of our 3 are really interesting and helpful and much easier than trying to find info online. (the other set of records are very unhelpful and now we trawl the internet trying to find anything that might help piece things together)

[RRTB]

Post up copies of that "unhelpful" set here if you're allowed to and the experts on here will be more than willing to help out if they can, as you already know!

RRTB