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Discuss Old Officer Appointment at the REME forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; I've just received the service record of a late uncle.
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25-01-2012, 12:30 #1Moderator
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Old Officer Appointment
I've just received the service record of a late uncle.
One of the documents is his application to transfer from the RA where he was a GPO, to the RAOC as an 'Ordnance Mechanical Engineer'.
Is this something which would have made him a founding member of the REME when it came into existance?
He didn't, in the end, go down this route but trained as an AOP, which eventually got him killed.I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
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25-01-2012, 20:03 #2Senior Member
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Most probably as REME Workshops' were originally RAOC engineering Workshops.
I'm now officially a has been
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Cheers, that's what I thought.
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
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26-01-2012, 08:26 #4Senior Member
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Do you know which AOP Sqn he was in?
Who needs letters after your name when you have numbers before it.
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659.
Have a look at the picture & War diary at entry 648 here:
Family Military PhotosI write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
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26-01-2012, 21:22 #6Senior Member
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He must have been a founding member of the Sqn or close to being anyway? Pretty unlucky way to die poor bloke. Where did you get the war diary entry from, the AAC museum?
Who needs letters after your name when you have numbers before it.
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Not really, he was on course No: 35 in Sept 1944.
Prior to that he fought at El Alamein and the invasion of Scicily with 8th Army.
Originally a TA Sapper pre war, commissioned into RA in late 1940.
I got the War Diary from these knowledgable chaps:
AOP (Air Observation Post) Squadron Casualties - Page 6 - World War 2 Talk
Entry 53.
The AAC museum have not been helpful at all.I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
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27-01-2012, 09:08 #8Senior Member
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This does not surprise me one bit:
Originally Posted by oldbaldy
Museum of Army Flying - opinions please......
However, AAC RHQ have been very helpful recently for me in digging out some stuff about a REME soldier who died on Ops in a Lynx crash. I don't know how much help they would be regarding your situation as that is probably dealt with as history as opposed to something that happened fairly recently and was a welfare/G1 issue.
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