NOTES as per Bruce Rooken-Smith.
This Roll was originally captured on PC in 1995 from a copy of the Long Roll sent by Dennis Leete to Sid Moscoff.
In 1997, General Sir Roland Guy GCB, CBE, DSO arranged for me to access Regimental personnel files held by MOD Records at Hayes, Middlesex, and for a limited period I was able to update these records.
Subsequent amendments have been made when members have advised me of errors or omissions.
Should you notice an error please bring it to my attention.
Bruce Rooken-Smith
P.O. Box 48, Merrivale 3291, South Africa
Telephone: + 0027-33 330 4012
e-m: rookenjb@mweb.co.za
9th August 2014
Two numbers appear to have been issued twice:
- 7411 HOARAN, Alex Simon which is correct, & PICKERING, Ian David (Denis?) for whom no data exists;
- 6510 SPRAGUE, J.D which is correct, & POLLITT, Geoffrey Thomas for whom no data exists.
The following 1,241 numbers were not allocated (N/A):
Individual numbers:
- 814, 1002, 1075, 1366, 1465, 1522, 1546, 1563, 1677, 1714, 1718, 1795,
- 2509, 2512, 2561, 2601, 2653, 2708, 2711, 2723, 2890, 2965, 2966,
- 2967, 2969, 3391, 3436, 3505, 4109, 4318, 4336, 6433, 6603, 6818.
Sequential Numbers:
- 1182-1200, 1584-1650, 2124-2500, 2732-2750, 4338-4350, 5000-5599, 5888-5999.
] after a number, indicates that the member has more than one number. Possible explanations for this are:
Officers. It would appear that the 5000 numbers were originally reserved for officers.
Initially, when a member was commissioned he was issued a second number in the 6000s.
Later, most were then issued a third number between 5600-5999. John Bamber had four numbers . 3525, 3671, 5649 and 6260.
Some who served in WWII were allocated three numbers e.g. Peter Anderson [WWII -7, Emergency . 3804, commissioned - 5612]. Likewise, Peter Higginson [3149, 4577, 5748] and JA Muller [3100, 4758, 5821].
Other ranks. Some men have two numbers e.g. Bwye [3639 & 4823]; Chapman [250 & 900], Church [3509 & 3579], possibly indicating the issue of the first number when called up.
The man was possibly deferred for some reason or another, and then issued the second number when he finally reported for training.