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Old 22-11-2007, 06:44 PM   #5 (permalink)
Ron Goldstein
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I would have thought that in the army, individuals ended up in the same units etc, unlike the RAF where they ended wherever their training, trade and unit allocation dictated
Not so....

My Army number was a General Service one and I was stuck with it from then on despite the fact that I moved from:
1. An Infantry training unit (Beds & Herts)
2. The Royal Artillery (Light Ack Ack)
and finally
3. The Royal Armoured Corps (4th QOH)

As Michael Caine might say.......Not-a-lotta-people know that !

Cheers

Ron
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"Called up" on 1/10/1942.

Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt).
The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps.
Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany)
Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn.

"De-mobbed" in Apr 1947
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