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Old 29-11-19, 14:10
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Sent off for my uncles army records in August and they arrived today.

Really interesting - all I have to do is decipher the abbreviations lol.

It doesn't seem to have one uncle as a POW at a camp near Leipzig just in Italy - but I have his card that shows that he was.
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Old 29-11-19, 14:41
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Julie, this may help you......

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/abbrevi...p#.XeEteNXgrIU
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Old 29-11-19, 17:52
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Sent off for my uncles army records in August and they arrived today.

Really interesting - all I have to do is decipher the abbreviations lol.

It doesn't seem to have one uncle as a POW at a camp near Leipzig just in Italy - but I have his card that shows that he was.
Didn’t you get a list of what the abbreviations mean with it? I did when I got my father in laws.
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Old 29-11-19, 18:15
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Thanks Tilly

Yes Margaret in the letter there were web pages to look at for further info etc.

There’s so much written in small boxes have to work out where one set of abbreviations ends and another starts
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Those abbreviations sent with service records by no means cover everything!
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Old 30-11-19, 09:03
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Having served I know a good number of them already its just the unusual ones I will have to work out. lol
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