Acronyms and Unknowns

[Fatman]

While trawling through family records, I have found various numbers and ancronyms im not sure of relating to what I assume to be military service.

Can anyone help on these please?

1) Service Number: CM930390
Does the CM prefix give any clues?

2) J43660 C of P, Scotland Yard S W
Chief of Police?

3)One of my relatives is marked as serving in "Commst & Transport Corps"
Googling hasnt helped much!

Thanks
Andrew

[Fatman]

bumping this in hope that someone will reply!

[Maths girl]

bumping this in hope that someone will reply!

Try putting it into the military section as the experts there might be able to help you

[Fatman]

it is??

[apowell]

Hi,

What was the name and details of this fellow with the service number CM because from the little information I can find it looks like he served prior to the First World War maybe in the Victorian times 1870-1888 ???

British Army
In the British Army, the Commissariat was a uniformed civilian service until 1869, when its officers transferred to the new Control Department as commissioned Army officers. The supply organization of the British Army went through a number of incarnations, including the Commissariat and Transport Department, Staff and Corps, before becoming the Army Service Corps in 1888.

A commissariat is the department of an army charged with the provision of supplies, both food and forage, for the troops. The supply of military stores such as ammunition is not included in the duties of a commissariat. In almost every army the duties of transport and supply are performed by the same corps of departmental troops. An officer of a commissariat is called a Commissary.

Regards
Adrian

[Fatman]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the reply.

On further investigation, it seems he may have been in the Navy as an Officers Cook - would that help to explain it at all?

But it cant have been pre WW1 as he wasnt born til 1936!

Andrew

[apowell]

Hi Andrew,

My friend I have no idea and I'm so way off the mark with this one but have you searched for any Royal Navy forums on the internet. You could try posting a request for help and if he was born 1936 you're looking around the mid 1950's at the time he would have served.

You have his Service Number why don't you request his service records from this link which explains the procedure:
www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/se ... cords.html
Good luck
Adrian

[Fatman]

Ok Thanks Adrian

Anyone else have ideas on the others?

[gardener]

Anyone else have ideas on the others?

I think you need to give a bit more information such as name, source and date perhaps. C of P Scotland Yard may well be Chief od Police but only if the date would fit. I mean, Scotland Yard was a district in London in the 17th century but I doubt there were many chiefs of police

[Fatman]

Ok thanks Gardener, its Arthur Frederick William Gowler b 1900
And my records show he was in this role between 1914 and 1920