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George W Bill HUMPHREY’S PHOTO ALBUM. Intake No.1 May 1939 |
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To the
A.O.B.A. Membership Office. Bill
Humphrey writes: “Application for Life Membership of the A.O.B.A.” You will
see that I have entered on my application form “Intake No.1 and Company
A” as I believe that is so, but I am
not certain. I checked into the school on the morning of Monday 1st of May
1939 aged 14 years and was put into Barrack Room A1 where I think I stayed
for some time. As I remember, we changed rooms as we got older and may also
have changed Companies. |
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Intake No.1 ‘D’ Company. Taken for December 1939. |
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N.B.
To view a larger version, please Click
on the Photo below. |
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Bill
Humphrey writes: I am the little fellow.
second from the right, second row from the top, with a smile on my face and
wearing a cap with an Ordnance badge you’ll notice. We were not R.E.M.E. yet. A smaller copy of
the same was stuck into a small Christmas Card which we purchased to send
home and printed at the bottom was Christmas 1939. |
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Ian
Rea (Bramley 1938 – Arborfield 1939) came up with some additions and
corrections to the Nominal Rolls 1936 – 1940
section, and contributed some more details of the photographs on this page. Ian writes: The leading photo listed as Intake N0.1
‘A’ Company I believe is actually ‘D’
Company. I recognise many faces, including in the second row from the front,
extreme right, me! Also recognised is Captain Johnson along with Sgt ‘Jock’
Auld of the K.O.S.B.s. The other sergeant is possibly Sgt ‘Turkey’
Cooper. |
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Editor’s
note: The photo above shows two distinct uniform styles. Service Dress with peaked cap, collar dogs
and white belts alongside Service Dress with forage cap, no collar dogs and a
webbing belt. Also noticed are white
stripes and Good Conduct stripes. A
mixture of apprentices originating from two different training
establishments? The photo below of boys from |
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No.1 Wing. ‘A’ Company A.T.S.
(Boys) 1939. Ex |
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Back Row: 3rd from left W. Cooker. 5th from left W. Kingham. 3rd Row from back: 3rd from
left Darkie Buckingham. 3rd Row from front: 5th from left C. Uren, 5th from right
K.Lipscombe. 2nd Row from front: 5th from right Sid Squibb. Front Row: 3rd from left T. Whitecock. |
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1939. Intake 10 Wing. ‘D’ Company
(R.A.O.C.) |
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Ian
Rea (Bramley 1938 – Arborfield 1939) writes: The photo above I recognise as ‘C’ Block of ‘D’ Company which
includes my good friend Peter Humpston, front row 3rd from the right, (Jersey
1938 – Arborfield 1939) along with Dick Ludford front row 2nd from the right,
(also Jersey 1938 – Arborfield 1939). I was in ‘J’ Block of ‘D’ Company.. |
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Ian’s own account of the early
days of Arborfield can be read from HERE.
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First Published: 15th
March 2010. Latest Update: 1st
February 2014. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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