Help reading this service record please.

[charlie962]

Inspiration required please for the answer to item 3 in this man's service record - Sgt Peter Hodgson is subject of his own thread in WesternFront

This is what I have for the other questions:

1. Transport Sergeant
2  Unimpeachable
3    ??  ??
4  Very
5  Have no means of judging. NCO concerned was a Coal Miner
6  -
7 Excellent control of men and popular

 

Thanks

Charlie

[Interested]

I think it says "Most Certainly"

[charlie962]

16 minutes ago, Interested said:

I think it says "Most Certainly"

Good idea. Here is a closeup.  I am unsure about 'most' but 'certainly' seems to fit.

[Bardess]

Sound?

[PJS]

For what it's worth I agree with "most certainly".  The tail of the p from "unimpeachable" initially makes it look wrong but once you ignore that it seems quite clear. Based on the other entries on the form, it's hard to imagine that it could be anything else.

 

Peter 

[charlie962]

Thanks for these replies. That first word still has me puzzled because I see two tall letters, one in the middle and one at the end. But I haven't a better idea and it is most certainly in the spirit of the report.

Charlie

Edited 26 October , 2021 by charlie962

[JWK]

As @PJS/Peter has noted: the "first tall letter" looks like the bottom part of the  P of "Unimpeachable", so the writer lengthened "most"  to accommodate for that infringing P?

[charlie962]

4 minutes ago, JWK said:

As @PJS/Peter has noted: the "first tall letter" looks like the bottom part of the  P of "Unimpeachable", so the writer lengthened "most"  to accommodate for that infringing P?

Ok I concede! Many thanks for that extra precision. Charlie