ITW, Torquay
GLOJO: I was billetted in the TOORAK HOTEL. From Google Earth I can see the Hotel has been altered, but I can see the room I was in for six weeks, just above the front entrance.
DANNY42C:
We must have been in the Babbacombe/Torquay area at the same time and your experiences are similar to mine. I went down to ACRC in Babbacombe on 3rd May, 1941 -but I missed the Arnold Scheme and trained entirely in England. My story starts at about page 75.
Differences in Pay qoted as Sergeant 12/- or 13/6.
Pilots, Navs and (later) Bomb Aimers were paid 13/6. Other aircrew were paid 12/- as Sergeants. It should have been equal for all.
DEDUCTIONS. e.g Barrack damages.
How about this.
As a Prisoner of War we were deducted "Hair Cutting Allowance." I have a copy of my Pay Statement sent to me in Germany. BUT the Germans
sheared us to the bone on arrival at Stalag IV-b.
Best wishes.
Fredjhh