The Man and I caught a couple of trains today and wound up
at the Chelmsford and Essex regimental museum.
And why did we venture out there you might ask?
And I’ll tell you.
My father and grandfather served with them during WWII and
WWI
Yes, I’ve been there before, but this time I went armed with
my father’s military record for the archivist there to help me to decipher.
And am I any further ahead with understanding it? Yes.
But I have yet another regimental diary to request from
National Archives.
That of the 66th Heavy Ant Aircraft Regiment. I’ll
give that a go tomorrow
I’m no closer to finding out why he went AWOL, other than he
might have been n transit from one unit to another and got ‘lost’ along the
way, probably with some pay in his pocket.
I did find out that the RAOC, Royal Army Ordinance Corps
that he first enlisted into is a logistical organisation handling stores and
supplies. Then he was transferred to the REME, Royal Electrical and mechanical
Engineers probably because in civilian life he had had some technical training.
It was good to finally meet the camp out there who I first
corresponded with, by snail mail, almost 20 years ago. I left all the records
relating to Dad and his father for their records.
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