If you like this page and would like to easily share it with your friends and family please use the social networking buttons below: Who will win this One Last War?īuy my latest novel on Kindle or Paperback. This beautiful QARANC Poppy Pin Badge is available from theįollow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.Īn army veteran moves his family into a village, but his nightmare neighbour starts a battle of wits with him. Service numbers were being drawn from the same source for the first time in its history. The roll out JPA within the Army commenced on 1 April 2007. ‘Joint Personal Administration’, recruits to any branch of any service, irrespective of rank, received their number in the same format, originally starting with 300XXXXX.

With the recent introduction of the Tri-Service There is an example of the P number for nursing sister Lt Rigby from her war diary and picture on D Day Normandy Landings. This new system was known as the Personal or P Number system while other ranks retained ‘service numbers’. The National Archives have records for these under class reference WO 339 (War Office) April 1922, though sadly some records were destroyed by enemy bombing We think members of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service had the letter P as a prefix due to their officer status which was granted inġ926, though rank was not introduced to the QAIMNS until 1941. Introduced in 1857 for regular and emergency reserve officers. For example the Royal Army Medical Corps had 'WE'. Prior to this time army personnel would have a number unique to For other ranks this was originally a seven digit number and The history of the British army service numbers and the P and Q prefix for the QAIMNS and QARANCīritish army service numbers, that were in use until fairly recently, were introduced post WWI in August 1920 (Army Order 338). » TA Field Hospitals and Field Ambulances » Camp Bastion Field Hospital and Medical Treatment Facility MTF Helmand Territory Southern Afghanistan » Ghost Hunt at Tidworth Garrison Barracks » Royal Brighton Pavilion Indian Hospital » Medical Reception Station Brunei and MRS Kuching Borneo Malaysia » King George Military Hospital Stamford Street London » First Eastern General Hospital Trinity College Cambridge » Duke of Connaught Unit Northern Ireland » Italian Sailor POW Camps India World War Two » Example of Mentioned in Despatches Letter » Allied Advance - Hundred Days Offensive » Chain of Evacuation of Wounded Soldiers » NO 32 CCS Brandhoek - The Battle of Passchendaele » Warlencourt Casualty Clearing Station World War One » Find Friends - Search Old Service and Genealogy Records

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