Hi everyone. Had an on-and-off project for a few years now tracing through the service records of my great uncle, a RASC soldier in WW2. He seems to have spent most of his time with 73 General Transport Company (in the UK until Dec 1942, North Africa until Jul 1943, Italy from Jul 1943 and then a gap ... until apparently appearing in Italy in Jan 1945 before heading to Haifa. In the time since I got most of my war diary copies made, National Archives seem to have significantly increased their prices (the ones I have were about £50 for several years worth of records, I recently requested some other stuff and the cost came back as £200!), and I can't quite get there for a visit just yet. Does anyone have any further information on 73 General Transport Company, particularly in Italy? Also struggling to work out which Div or Bde the company supported - but that can wait. Thanks!
Richard, GT companies normally worked on the lines of communications rather than directly working for one division or brigade. It looks like he was in Sicily in July 1943. There are several members on here who will copy documents from National Archives for very reasonable costs including: Andy: http://ww2talk.com/index.php?members/drew5233.6786/ Lee: http://ww2talk.com/index.php?members/psywar-org.2876/ Regards Tom
Wow, that's really good! In this context is W/E "war establishment" or something else? Just curious as to what the numbers mean (III/116/2 etc). Thanks