Thursday 20 October 2011

Katy's Military Record

Having seen posts about just emailing DES for the vehicle information on the EMLRA forum I did so on Monday and I got the Merlin Management information sheets today – very efficient and no charge

ERM                        63KG65 I knew this
Designation              Amb Crash rescue 2/3 Stretcher 4x4 Land Rover – ermm… this too
Colour White Gloss Interesting – there is camouflage paint all over her underneath a very poor paint job
Barbus Ind              N – I have No Idea what that means
Date in service        27-Jan-88
Date Cast               27-Apr-98
Disposal Date         16-Jun-98



Here is the Merlin report I got from DES

In case it's hard to read I've copied it out below
IV NO
IV DATE   
UIN
UNIT TITLE
REC NO
REC DATE


F5039A
RAF REGT DEPOT


500427
25-NOV-88
F6919A
RAF MANSTON
724
5-JAN-89
347
27-OCT-89
F5039A
RAF REGT DEPOT
999/91
15-NOV-89
999
3-JUL-92
CA005A
JSCS ASHCHURCH
A001769
3-JUL-92
A11857
23-SEP-93
A1073A
OP HANWOOD-YUGOSLAVIA
999/DAI
23-SEP-93
200
23-SEP-93
CA195A
OSU THETFORD
E50/093
22-OCT-93
069
5-JAN-94
A0916A
ARMD FD AMB RAMC
795F1
21-FEB-94
108
29-JUL-94
A0944A
PARA FIELD AMBULANCE
174H67
29-NOV-94
030
16-JUN-98
CQ700A
MVSL (DISPOSALS)
999M92
19-JUN-98

The Depot and disposal lines are fairly obvious – parked somewhere waiting for a new life

RAF Manston is fairly self-explanatory, What is nice is that it’s next to the Spitfire museum and that probably gives us a really good reason for a trip down there and take some pictures of her “at home”

Op Hanwood seems to be an operation to Croatia (Yugoslavia), but it’s not clear whether she went given the dates, it would be nice as that was I understand it a humanitarian mission (see post It's official as an update to this statement)

The rest I’m not clear on, and have asked some people on military forums to try and get clear

if anyone is looking into this I did the following 

DES is Defence Equipment and Support http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/MicroSite/DES/

I sent the registration number (like you have) and other information I had (see http://landroverkaty.blogspot.com/p/about-katy.html) to query@edisposals.com an email address I found on http://www2.edisposals.com/contact.htm

They were not the right people, but passed it on to someone in Nottingham and I got a letter back

Simples !

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