After Rmventuri’s question re W/O versus W/O 2 I located my pay book to remind me of term used (T W/O) , and as it is still on my desk decided to scan it as below. Warts and all.
It surprised me I didn’t fill in the last will and testament section, and can only assume I thought ‘It can’t happen to me ‘ ,like every one else at that time.
Or could it be , I had now’t to leave ?
Page one shows I was attested on 8/3/42 , working back this means I attended Padgate for ‘entrance exams’ about six months earlier and the recruiting office approximately ?/8/41.
INSPECOR CLUELESS. Did your uncle (pilot) live in Hull during the May blitz. If so was the blitz the reason he volunteered for aircrew training ? Could you ask him and let us know the results. The reason I ask , is that Hull was heavily bombed during the war but for some unknown reason only referred to as a N.E town. The score was. Most heavily bombed London, Liverpool, Hull. Most deaths per square mile, London , Hull, Liverpool. This bombing made us youngsters very annoyed , causing many to volunteer and take the King’s shilling. During the May 1941 blitz, for three nights, a lot of people walked out of the town with their bedding. They had to exit before the army stopped movement, in or out until dawn. On one of these nights, the rescue services were ordered to remain in shelters until the ‘all clear’.