Hope I've attached these right, I came across these papers and just thought someone might find them interesting I'm a real novice so If anyone...
I am interested in the background to WW2 demob. My grandfather's Release Book has several dates, ranging from Nov 1945 (officer's testimonial...
Hi I hope someone can help me. I am researching a Royal Artillery Gunner in WW2. His service record shows that on 03/11/1944 he deployed to...
How was the demobilsation of troops managed at the end of the war? Were troops returned the their regiment's home town / base and then processed...
I know that most service personnel from the Far East and the Pacific returned to the UK after the end of WW2 by sea, often aboard aircraft...
For Your Guidance - What To Do On Leaving The Service and How To Do It RAF Demobilisation Booklet
Hi All Thanks to all the help and guidance, that I have been given on the forum already, I have very slowly been navigating my way through all...
I've noticed on several pages of a mans service documents the following: Age and service Group C60 and a grid with C60 written in it and under...
Reading again Robert Waithmans article in the News Chronicle in 1946, it brings back memories of 67 years ago when coming to terms with ‘that it...
Did service personnel have a choice of where they were de-mobbed? Dad was with 8th Army from 1941 onwards and was de-mobbed at Naples, Italy in...
Ron & I were having a discussion the other day about demob pay. I said I remembered receiving extra pay because I had served overseas whereas he...
Wow! I retrieved it from my post box at 13:00. I finished it at 01:00. Probably the only book I've literally sat and read, cover to cover, in...
I know that the Americans had a number/points system to prioritise demob from the services. Can anyone explain the British system of demob as I...
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