Good Afternoon Please excuse me if I have posted in the wrong place as I have previously asked questions regarding my grandmother under a different forum but as this is about service records I was unsure where to post. I have received her service records which I have been able to decipher a bit of, and fortunately they are all UK postings which makes it easier to understand! However when it comes to the abbreviations I am at a bit of a loss. I have posted copies of them if anyone would be kind enough to go through them and hopefully be able to give me information about the various places and the coys she was attached to and any information about what she would have been doing would be great. I may be barking up the wrong tree but I think she may have been attached to the Royal Artillery and REME at some stage? and that she was in the Orkney Defence Group at the end of the war but again I have no clues from the records what she was actually doing there. Many thanks for your time
I can only see one occupation being given: bricklayer. Her posting to the Orkney Defence Group in 1945 may reflect a skills shortage there, especially as male labour was at a premium. Google does not find the phrase Orkney Defence Group, then I found your earlier thread: ATS Orkney The Museum & Visitor Centre at Lyness bay might be a good place to ask, though the museum is shut now. There is an email option: Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum
There are lists of abbreviations on the forum: Abbreviations in Service Records (UK/ Army/ WWII) : For ref. Updated Resource - Abbreviations & Acronyms Also have a look here: Second World War Abbreviations and Acronyms - Researching WW2 Army Personnel Centre
Tinap, Looked again, with a magnifying glass, cannot now see the words I thought stated bricklayer. Sorry.
First page. Trade on Enlistment = Twister. (Twister / Twisterer Worked a machine twisting the yarns or threads)
