Wise words HN.

Again, you're welcome. And it sounds like you've got some fascinating detetctive work ahead of you.

Typed out could mean "logged off" i.e off duty and 00 is sometimes used as shorthand for midnight, so "off duty at m'night" However, I'm inclined to go along with your line of reasoning in that OO is an abb. for some sort of orders. So it could be operational orders, however it c...

What context is it written in? It's possible. Can't say I've come across it before though.

GO = general oders
SO = standing orders
DO = daily orders / daily operations
Op. plan = operational plan
OPS = operations

Out of interest, do the Padres in the paras have to pass P coy or just get their wings or none of the above ? with thanks :) i remember a padre a few yrs back who done most of the events - inc the milling! just to get a taste of what the blokes have to do. he also done his jumps. he said he didnt h...

No, you're alright mate. Sorry, it's as much my mistake for misunderstanding and thinking your reply referred to WWI when you were clearly referring to WWII. The perils of on screen communication!

LB your post seems to be the most likely, perhaps the green envelope was issued because it was so late in the war? Thnak you all for your replies. J_M You're welcome. However, it isn't a case of being most likely. This is fact. That is what the green envleope was. Also I just checked one of my book...

Was just reading through my Grandfather's WW2 Diary and he mentions writing a letter to loved ones in a green envelope. Was wondering if there is significance in this, as in an "open if I die" sort of letter. Thank you for any help. I don't know about WWII, but I have studied the First Wo...

God Jul (Good Yule) from Sweden and a Gott Nytt År (Good New Year) to you all.


No snow in Sweden either!

Yea, I'll give it a go.

Thanks for that. I'd never heard of him before now.

Good for him and all the best to him mate.

Be thankful that you've got some xmas spirit over there. I might as well be Timbuktu for the lack of xmas spirit over here in Sweden.

Keep going rookie rock you'll make it. Interesting to note what you say about swimming. In my day (late 70s -early 80s) there was no swimming at all and no requirement to be able to swim. Fact is I only learned to swim a year after I left the Regt in 82, when I joined the Met Police which did have a...

It makes a very festive desktop background! Indeed it does, thank you for the tip. It now adorns both my screens. Great resolution as well. I'd like to search on the artist, now it looks like it says Alan Seattle, but that can't be right can it? Seattle? Could it be Stattle? Looks like it could be ...