15-09-2008, 05:33 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008
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 | Hello I am a new member and wish to ask for help with some of the abbreviations written on my late father's WW2 service records: Entered in the UNIT column: XL (Fld) X (IV) List XL (M) RB Entered in the RECORD OF ALL CASUALTIES column: Adn. to 2FA 13/08/44 and RTU 20/08/44 Posted to draft REHG Thank you. |
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15-09-2008, 07:03 PM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: May 2004
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| Pete - no real mystery there - "REHG" is the draft number for overseas - that had to be shown on all documents - kit etc before climbing the gangplank - the "X" is a reserve so I would guess that he was sick - wounded etc and admitted to a field ambulance for 8 days then returned to his unit where did he serve - from the dates - and the overseas label - I would assume Italy and he probably ate too many peaches -grapes - melons - just being greedy ! etc just before the Gothic Line Battles. ! Cheers |
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15-09-2008, 08:12 PM
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| Battle of Barking Creek   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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15-09-2008, 09:59 PM
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| Veteran wannabe   Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The Land of Eternal Spring
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15-09-2008, 10:50 PM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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15-09-2008, 11:14 PM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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15-09-2008, 11:37 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Just trying to work out who 2 FA were with. Found this, LARGE, Stanley Eyre (1917-1991), Major General Quote:
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19-09-2008, 08:16 PM
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| Many thanks to Philip (ABRG), Netherlands, Tom Canning, Smudger Jur., Gage, Warlord, Spidge, Gnomey and Owen. RTU = return to Unit 2FA = 2 Field Ambulance and 'X' must have been the 'Reserve' unit my father was attached to before he was disembarked oversees. My Dad was a BSM in the RA so he got 'attached' to numerous regiments and formations. Thanks everyone, I will be back for more answers in due course. Delighted to know that there are people out there with the knowledge and the generosity of spirit to share it! Last edited by Pete Warbaby; 19-09-2008 at 08:17 PM. Reason: Correcting typing errors |
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