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From: "Delia Gleave" <d@deliagleave.f9.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Lon] 'WAG' as a nickname
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:12:24 -0000
References: <020c01c4fcf1$d8a18b40$ef8f4c51@croftassoc> <114301c4fcf5$743935f0$6401a8c0@yourw04gtxld67>


Well, well, well! I' never cease to be amazed at the knowledge-base among
listers. Thank you.
Delia

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Drewell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] 'WAG' as a nickname


> WAG - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
>
> John Drewell
> ========
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ruth Croft" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 4:08 PM
> Subject: [Lon] 'WAG' as a nickname
>
>
>> I was rootling in a box today and found an address book I'd never seen
>> before. It was my Mum's and I think it dates from when she was at
>> college
>> in the early 1930's and continues to the end of WWII.
>> During the war, my parents were members of 'the hospitality committee' in
>> Birmingham - this was for people who had 'space' in their homes for
> (mostly)
>> overseas servicemen who couldn't 'go home' when they had some leave. In
> our
>> case, most of the visitors were in the Air Force.
>>
>> Reading through the names and addresses in the little book, I realised
> that
>> many of them were the lads who had visited - and some, but not all, were
>> described as WAG...
>> For instance:
>> Sgt. WAG. Bill Christie, Aus. 421246, c/o Kodak House, Kingsway, London.
>> There are 2 other Aussie 'Sgt. WAGs' on the same 'C' page, both with the
>> London contact address.
>>
>> Perhaps there are some Air Force listers who could explain the meaning of
>> WAG - and maybe that's where another nickname might have come from?
>>
>> (As a post-war baby, I never met any of these 'boys', but I grew up
>> listening to stories about them. Today, I had a big lump in my throat as
>> I
>> read their birthdays beside their addresses, and most moving, where my
>> Mum
>> had added RIP and a date, such as May 4th and October 12th 1943 beside 2
>> Norwegian names.)
>>
>> Ruth in Brum.
>>
>>
>>
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