Permission Booklet and ID Disks

[Bwetdude]

Hi,

I went to Vermont (USA) this weekend and I found this little set.

Used to belong to H. GLADDIS 1163874, stationned at RAF Derby.

Unit "A" Flight : 918 Squadron

Rank... you tell me!

Can't make out the year on the permission book, 43 or 45 ? (probably 43, if I check the other 3s and 5s)

Could it really be the picture of the RAF person in question....?

Good find or is this stuff common?

[wright241]

Originally Posted by Bwetdude

Hi,

I went to Vermont (USA) this weekend and I found this little set.

Used to belong to H. GLADDIS 1163874, stationned at RAF Derby.

Unit "A" Flight : 918 Squadron

Rank... you tell me!

Can't make out the year on the permission book, 43 or 45 ? (probably 43, if I check the other 3s and 5s)

Could it really be the picture of the RAF person in question....?

Good find or is this stuff common?

Looks like LAC which is Leading Aircraftman - rather than SAC (Senior...).
Looking at the last number, the lower shape of the loop looks like it might be a 3 rather than a 5.

[Voltigeur]

Hi guys, as added informations. The 918 Sqn.(County of Derby Balloon Sqn.) was a Barrage Balloon Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force, RAF. Those squadrons were numbered from 901 to 999. Maybe someone with more knowledge could shed more light on this.
Cheers
Jo

Looks like a nice little set. The probability is that your photograph is of the person named and the discs complete the set. Most major towns and cities in the UK with an industrial base had barrage balloon units. Derby was the home of Rolls Royce and had major implications to the UK railway industry and network as well as other heavy engineering firms. As a high priority target for the Luftwaffe, Derby would be well protected with barrage balloon, searchlight and anti-aircraft units. Regards. David

[Mike]

The number block containing your man's number 1150001-1299800 is UK enlistments April and May 1940.


some number blocks were allocated to towns and cities, but unfortunately not that one, it's just "UK"

interestingly a very large percentage of people with that surname in the first half of the last century were from the Isle of Wight.