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Anti tank blocks
I see that someone wrote their name in the wet cement while installing the Anti tank blocks on Druridge beach. PT E Wilson I think it reads and a serial number under but can't make it out.
Were these made by local troops,home guard? |
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Interesting find.
PTE is the standard abbreviation for Private, so Private Wilson. 7 digit service numbers up to 1942 have a regimental block allocation pattern. http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/mm/...ce_numbers.htm then they switch to 8 digit beginning 14... |
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I thought the first two characters looked like "N.F.", then 7 digits. But if he was Northumberland Fusiliers the first digit would have to be a 4 followed by 2 or 3. - doesn't look like that. Also the "Northumberland Fusiliers" were granted the "Royal" title in 1935 becoming the "Royal Northumberland Fusiliers" So would we expect a RNF rather than a NF as well?
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I should add that men transferred from one regiment to another can hang on to their previous number so it is not a cast iron way to ID regiment from a number.
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If I was forced to make a judgement on what it says I would have to say NF 5952921
Now that would be a Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment number . |
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This one looks like PTE Wissonna?
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