Wartime Service: Roles

Cambridge District Scout Archive

This list is taken from a loose pile of record cards, probably incomplete, undated but from context 1940 +.  They are not linked to Scout Groups and are not always clearly written.  

The addresses, though changed many times on some cards, do not list service overseas later in the war. The list is not maintained and does not list later promotions.

Abbreviations are as given which may not always match Service abbreviations

• Sgn                              RCS                                  (Royal Corps of Signals?)
• Gnr                              RA  111 Lt AA Battery  (Royal Artillery/ Anti Aircraft) (Gunner)
• Pte                                                                        (Private)                     
• Pte                               8^th Essex Regiment
• A/C1                            RAF
• Pte                               RASC                                (Royal Army Service Corp)
• Pte                               2^nd Batt Cambs Reg
• L/C                               Suffolk Reg                      (Lance Corporal)
• Lt                                                                            (Lieutenant.)
• Serg                             RAF                                   (Sergeant)
• L/C                               RE BEF              250 Field Coy
• Pte                               Essex Reg                   
• AB                                HMS Dragon                    (Able Seaman)
• Gnr                              Light AA Battery
• Pte                               BEF (20^th General Hospital)    (British Expeditionary Force)
• Pte                               RAOC                                  (Royal Army Ordnance Corp)
• AC/2                            RAF                                      (Aircraftman lowest rank)
• LAC      (AC/2)              W/T Sec RAF(Egypt)  (Wireless/ telegraphy)                                                         (Leading Aircraftman)
• Sign     (Signaller)      18^th DW Signals Home Forces (DW ?)   (Signaller)
• L/Cpl    (Pte)                Sherwood Foresters AA Heavy Coy 13 Battery
• Rev Tribe                    RAF
• Driver                          224 Field Ambulance Coy
• Fsl                                Royal Fusiliers                  (Fusilier)

Also address cards for

• H Gordon                     labelled (German nr, Hanover) It is not clear if he is German or a Prisoner of War.
• Heinz Rossinger 13805563 (ex Austrian Scout, Vienna and Cambridge Rover) No.3 PC Training Centre Ilfracombe      (Pioneer Corp – some later units of which specifically trained enemy aliens and non combatants)

JWR Archivist Feb 2019