Your service number was just a number.
Singlies shared cars.
Monthly bar bill limit.
Merrydown Cider.
When Stores had nav bags etc over the counter.
When cold weather flying gloves came as gloves, left and gloves, right. Not as a pair and different colours.
Socks, flying, woollen plain and Socks, flying woollen ribbed, and Vests Raschall knitted (string to you and me)