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help with WW1 occupation in abbreviation

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Jo

Jo Report 28 Dec 2009 12:02

Marriage cert of 1914 gives my relatives occupation as...
R.F.A.H.N.S.
I could be incorrectly reading the N and the S might be U and P though very difficult to read.
R.F.A. seems to be standard military but what does the rest mean - I can't find anything?
I also know was West Yorkshire Regiment Army Service Corp service numbers 33693 S/383234 His name is John Walton Nutt.
Any help welcome, thank you... Jo

Linda in the Midlands

Linda in the Midlands Report 28 Dec 2009 12:09

possiibly Royal Fleet Auxillary??

Royal fleet Artillery?

Eileen

Eileen Report 28 Dec 2009 13:14

He is in the Ancestry military list. Not much, but it says
West Yorkshire Regt . Army Service corps. Numbers as you stated.
Eileen

Andrew

Andrew Report 28 Dec 2009 20:33

RFA was the Royal Field Artillery in WW1

Jo

Jo Report 29 Dec 2009 19:54

Thank you for your help everyone...

was this usual i wonder for people to put occupation like this around this time... seems an odd thing to do... guess he had no idea 100 years later someone would be trying to decipher his occupation initials...

Royal Field Artillery is solved but the rest may be an unsolvable mystery...

thanks again Eileen Andrew and Linda ...