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From: "Bob Dear" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Re: olivemay@talk21.com
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:12:18 +1030
References: <memo.20010218220200.51519A@roy_dent.lineone.net>


I must agree with Roy on one point. You never forget your official
number. In fact I often use mine backwards as a password/pin number etc.
I served in the RN and I can't remember identifying my kit with both
name and number except possibly for kitbag and hammocks. I still have
my wooden name only stamp which we used with white or black marking dye
for blues and whites respectively. We also embroidered the names with
red wool on some kit items. "Eating irons" were not personal issue in
the RN in my time.
It may be possible to trace a service number through pay allotments made
to a wife through the post office but I can't think how. Perhaps someone
else can suggest how.
Regards
Bob D
Adelaide, South Australia
In London & Middlesex looking for CLEMENTS, DEAR, JAMES, MEADS,
PILBEAM, POWELL, STALLARD, SUCH, TREBY, WILKES & WILSON

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Dent" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:32 AM
Subject: [Lon] Re:


>
> If he, and your mother, kept any of his Navy gear, you would probably
> find a service number somewhere there. I wasn't in the RN, but I was
> in the RAF, and I still have (and use daily) my service issue spoon
> with my number engraved on it. Not that I could ever forget it, no one
> ever does! :-)
>
> Good luck,
>
> Roy Dent




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