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Arthur Woolnough: RAF to RASC

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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:59 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

I've shared a photo and documents relating to my father.

He tried to join the RAF, but was transferred to the army (see document). He served with the RASC in Singapore from mid 1944 - 1947.

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Photograph in army uniform, enlist paper and letters from RAF informing him that he was being moved to the Army

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Arthur Woolnough

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Ros Bassnett

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He was my Dad

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Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.

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