I would be grateful for any help in deciphering the acronyms in this document. This was the cover letter to a debriefing narrative when my father escaped from Singapore and returned to India in 1942. My father was the first allied officer to escape from Singapore and return to India. Further details are available here First Allied POW escape from Singapore in 1942 « The k2p blog. many thanks
ktwop welcome could i suggest put your fathers name in the title this will aid our experts Sorry. Lt. Mark Pillai, Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners at the time of his escape in May 1942. He reached Allied lines in India in August 1942 and the debriefing report was circulated on 8th September 1942. It was classified MOST SECRET and was not to be declassified for 50 years. I found a copy in the Singapore War Archives in 2000 and it seems to be the Australian copy.
Just a few from the Household Cavalry: RCM- REGIMENTAL CORPORAL MAJOR RQMC-REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTER CORPORAL SQMC-SQUADRON QUARTERMASTER CORPORAL SCM-SQUADRON CORPORAL MAJOR SCPL-STAFFCORPORAL CoH-CORPORAL of HORSE L/CoH-LANCE CORPORAL of HORSE
Can anyone help with these two abbreviations please. MEPL - Middle East ? ? and DLJMN. Thanks, Jules.
Rosy - DLJMN is certainly a draft code for sailing - MEPL - sure that's not a typo for MELF - Middle East Land Forces ??? Cheers
I would be grateful if someone could explain the abbreviations FRBT, FRUT. FRRS, and FRQT as shown on the attached log book entry of an air gunner at No 9 B&G School, Penrhos.
Thanks Idler and Tom. That makes more sense now. Were the draft codes random letters or would they have stood for something relevant? Tom, I'm beginning to think it probably is a typo even though it is quite neatly written! Thanks again.
Rosy - nothing random about the Army if you were off overseas - the code was probably from some list made up by some backroom clerk - who hadn't too many clues as to what he was doing but you can depend it was in alphabetical order - for each port of embarkation - and had to be visible on all your kit - or else you didn't go - now that fact was never realised until you were miles off shore ! Cheers
David I did a bit of GOOGLING, thought for one moment I had an answer and then realised it was only you asking the same question on another forum Abbreviation help. - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums Ron
David I did a bit of GOOGLING, thought for one moment I had an answer and then realised it was only you asking the same question on another forum Abbreviation help. - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums Ron Thanks for giving it a go Ron.
...and had to be visible on all your kit - or else you didn't go - now that fact was never realised until you were miles off shore ! Cheers Thanks Tom
Can anyone help with these two abbreviations please. MEPL - Middle East ? ? and DLJMN. Thanks, Jules. It may not be a typo error if you say the handwritting is neat. It may well stand for Middle East Palestine. Just a thought. Regards Tom
I would be grateful if someone could explain the abbreviations FRBT, FRUT. FRRS, and FRQT as shown on the attached log book entry of an air gunner at No 9 B&G School, Penrhos. David I found this: FRQT - Free gun astern It was the only one that matched in your list but this is the website where I found it - it has an air gunners log book to look through too. Jim MacNaught - Air Gunner & Bomb Aimer instructor ALSO this link General Aviation Forums to a forum thread might help (someone has FRUT in their log book) Jules
It may not be a typo error if you say the handwritting is neat. It may well stand for Middle East Palestine. Just a thought. Regards Tom Thanks Tom. It is written in the column "Authority for Posting" The records show June '43 TOS MEF (When in Iraq and was SOS PAIF) and then MEPL in August '43 when around Cairo. Jules.
Smudger Palestine was a separate force - PAIF ( Palestine and Iraq Force - 9th Army) just as MEF - (Middle East force - 8th Army) and BNAF ( British North Africa force - 1st Army) - CMF - (Central Mediterranian Force -amalgam 1st & 8th Armies ) OR 15th Army group - joint 5th US and 8th British - I know, I know that's only 13 but they didn't like that so they reverted to the force in Sicily - 7th US and British 8th Armies - finally setlled for AAFI - (Allied forces Italy ) we still won no matter what they called us - as long as it wasnt late for dinner ! Cheers
I've been working on a webpage of Commonwealth/Canadian Military abbreviations and acronyms. Many thanks goes out to various military forums. This is a living document so if there are any corrections or additions to be made, please let me know... Canadian & Commonwealth Military Abbreviations and Acronyms Thank you for posting this, items within confirmed a number of thoughts I had looking at some records.
My Dad was a Bofors gunner in the 60th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, 180th Battery in India, then Burma, during WW2. With the help of this site particularly, I 've managed to sort out most of the abbreviations I find in his war record, but one or two continue to elude me and I'm hoping somebody can help please? I'm guessing that 'WPP with effect from . . . ' means something like War Pay and Pension? And that, for failing to salute an officer, 'CTBA for 1 day . . . . ' goes along the lines of Confined To Barracks Award? However the one that causes me real grief is REAHW. I've searched all over for this with no joy whatsoever. From the context I'm guessing that it was some unit within the RA/Light Anti Aircraft guns. I've wracked my meagre brains and can't even come up with a decent guess. The only reference I could find to it on the entire 'Net, was on the back of an envelope for sale on eBay (see eBay item number 380299896640). So, REAHW anybody? When my Dad's unit finally made it to Burma (after an interesting time training and crisscrossing Poona, Gulanche, Bombay, Maharastra, etc.) they were attached to the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders recuperating at Milestone 82 in the Nagar hills after Kohima, before proceeding to Yazagyo and crossing the Irrawaddy. I'd love to hear from anybody who can add anything to my scanty knowledge of the Camerons in this period. These war records are fascinating, although they are somewhat scanty - fortunately I happened across a kind of diary my Dad kept, which helped pad it out a bit, but if only I'd asked him . . . . . . .
Hi - Welcome to the forum. Could you write how the abbreviation is entered in his record? It might help work out what it is. Jules.
