John Henry Stemp RAF

[seaJane]

Slightly to my surprise - because I thought that as a trainee his records wouldn't have been kept - I have just found my grandfather's RAF record from the Great War in The National Archives.

He joined on 12 April 1918, three days after his eighteenth birthday, and was put on the sick list on 30 September the same year - I can see that much, and besides I knew some of it already, as Grandad always said that he went down with the flu in the middle of his training, and by the time he recovered, the Armistice had already happened.

Can anyone decipher the other notes on the attached document? I'd be very grateful (I'm sorry it's so small, but I can't think of any other way to reduce the pdf in size enough to load it).

seaJane

John Henry Stemp RAF.doc

[Dolphin]

OCW = Officer Cadet Wing

6 S of A = No 6 School of Aeronautics (at Bristol_

I hope this helps a little.

Gareth

[David B]

SJ

Columns 2 and 3 are as follows

1.0. TTW 1 OCW

1 OCW 5 OCW

5 OCW 6 S of A

6 S of A arm sch

arm sch Beverley Placed on sick list

Transferred to class G R.A.F. reserve 16/3/19

[mickdavis]

^{1 Officer Cadet Wing, Sandling Camp, Shorncliffe.}

^{5 Officer Cadet Wing, also Sandling Camp.}

^{6 School of Aeronautics, Bristol.}

^{Armament School, Uxbridge - with detachment at Montpelier Rd, Ealing.}

^{Beverley - at that time housed 72 TS and the 8th Wing ARS}

[seaJane]

THANK YOU so much everyone!

If I can find the photograph I have of him in his Officer Cadet uniform, I will post it (in WW2 he joined up again aged 40, served in the RASC and then REME).

[seaJane]

Eleven years later I have finally found the photograph!

[nils d]

That didn't take long did it?

It's took me longer to find some things l admit.

[seaJane]

1 hour ago, nils d said:

That didn't take long did it?

I'd forgotten which book I'd put it in the front of. Found it yesterday when emptying a bookcase in order to move it upstairs...