S/Sgt. David John Thomas
Army Service No. 5334476
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Enlisted:
His service commenced as a private in C Company.
2nd Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment
London, Age 21.
Reenlisted 27/01/1943? During The War.
Pre
War:
1933 Training UK.
1934 Shorecliff Kent UK C Company 2nd Battalion.
1934 Palestine Talavera Barracks Jerusalem.
1935 Palestine Sarafand.
Jordan Petra.
1936 Palestine/Egypt? Arab uprising In Palestine
1936-39.
1937 Egypt Fayid Ismalia Red Sea Swimming.
Certificate Tank Course RASV.
1938 India.
Lance Corporal in Lucknow.
1938 Ahmenabad.
1939 WW2:
He was the Colonels chauffer in both the United Kingdom and India.
By the early 1940s he was promoted to Corporal.
1940 Internal Duties Eastern United Provinces
Promoted To Corporal B Company 2nd Battalion?
1941 Stationed Coloba Mumbai In Oct
Stationed Thana Near Mumbai
1942 Calcutta Promoted To Sergeant?
Coast Of Madras Study
1943 Madras Malaba Bidala
1943 NCO Sergeant
1944 Staff Sergeant
Returned to UK 1944/45
November 1944 Infantry Special Training Centre Scotland or Northern Ireland
1945 Instructor AMVS Northern Ireland
Demobbed Army 27/01/1946
Rank WS C Sgt Staff Sergeant/Colour Sergeant.
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Pte. David John Thomas
1933
S/Sgt. David John Thomas
After Crossing The Desert
S/Sgt. David John Thomas
With Two Of His Comrades
S/Sgt. David John Thomas
In India