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[HarryBettsMCDCM]

Thought you might like to see this little scrap of paper:~

An issue slip from the Orderly Room Of "F" Company The 3rd Volunteer Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment for a Pair of Boots! dated 3rd December 1918; initialled A.W.N.?

[Graham Stewart]

Harry,

Their H.Q. was located at the Barracks, Silver Street, Ely, Cambs and the Battalion C.O. was Capt. F. Robertson. I have the reprint of the October 1918 Volunteer List, but no initials can be matched among the officers present.

Graham.

[Chief_Chum]

Maybe the initials were those of the Quartermaster Sergeant? Whoever signed it it's a nice piece of ephemera.

The museum at Chatteris have an original late war 'V Cambs' Service Dress tunic in their collection. I believe that one of the Chums has an original Officers Cambridgeshire Regiment tunic with the bronze 'V's under the collar badges too. There seems to be very little interest in the Great War Volunteer battalions and certainly very little written about them. I have a few original Suffolk VTC and Volunteer Battalion items in my own collection but rarely come across anyone else who is interested in them.

Cheers,

Taff

PS: Nice to see my Cambridgeshire Regiment cap badge on your avatar...

[C.TIERNEY.]

Thought you might like to see this little scrap of paper:~

An issue slip from the Orderly Room Of "F" Company The 3rd Volunteer Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment for a Pair of Boots! dated 3rd December 1918; initialled A.W.N.?

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It's amazing this piece of paper survived all these years. Is there any special reason that red ink was used, would the boots have been an issue on "Repayment"????

Just a thought.

Regards,

C.T.

[HarryBettsMCDCM]

Cheers Chaps