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Re: More help needed with army records
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 16 September 25 21:16 BST (UK) »
Sorry about the individual messages but I’m struggling to get the images to load and I keep losing the messages when I try to post an image. Very annoying

Re the image with the date change it gives his service for gratuity as 2yrs 62 days
His total o.s (I’m assuming overseas service) as 2 yrs 227 days.
The extra 165 days are accounted for from 22/11/46 - to his discharge date of 7/5/47.

So the mystery to me is what was he doing between being sent to RP on 15/8/46 and returning to duty on 22/11/46.

Has anyone else seen this on army records?

I’m completely unable to get another image of the sticker page. The questions on the form, name address, nationality and that of his parents, marital status and has he ever served in any of the armed forces.

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Angus.(paternal)  Ferrier, Sutherland, Donaldson, 
(Maternal)  Mitchell, Robbie, Duncan, Suttie, Orchardson or Orchardton, Dempster, Downie Guild, Gibb, Storrier, Murdoch

Aberdeenshire Park, Lawson, Snowie, Bodie, Booth, Kesson, Ewan

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Re: More help needed with army records
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 16 September 25 21:49 BST (UK) »
Image 1582 is all about calculating his entitlement to a war service gratuity. The date of 15 Aug 1946 was the end of the qualifying period (the start date was 3 Sep 1939) for the war service gratuity. The gratuity was paid as a tax-free lump sum. The figure in red represents his reckonable service date, ie his last day of service. His reckonable service would have been used to calculate any pension he might have been eligible for, although with only 2 years and 227 days service, any pension would have been negligible.

Turning to image 1583, the reckonable service mentioned there is for the war gratuity, rather than his overall reckonable service  He doesn't have any non-reckonable service, but if he had, this would cover time spent in military detention or imprisonment.  The final sentence refers to the transfer of the relevant details to the Regimental Payoffice (RP), who would be responsible for making the payment, possibly to the man's bank account or Post Office Savings account if he had one.  He wasn't being sent anywhere.

As I say, I haven't identified what CRS stands for, but I doubt if it was just a medical facility, although there may have been medical treatment available there.

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Re: More help needed with army records
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 16 September 25 22:18 BST (UK) »
Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. I’ve never seen an army record before.
Angus.(paternal)  Ferrier, Sutherland, Donaldson, 
(Maternal)  Mitchell, Robbie, Duncan, Suttie, Orchardson or Orchardton, Dempster, Downie Guild, Gibb, Storrier, Murdoch

Aberdeenshire Park, Lawson, Snowie, Bodie, Booth, Kesson, Ewan