R.F. “R.E.” Chamberlain

Craftsman · #7608540

What this roll records

DUPLICATE RECORD MERGED (2026). The roll held this man twice — once with his service number and once without it, under a variant spelling of the surname. The entry with no number could not be caught by the shared-number test that found the earlier duplicates, nor by the photograph test, because it had neither. It was found by asking whether the roll already held him with a number. This card is the survivor; the discarded entry read “Chamberlain, R.E.”. THE SURNAME IS IDENTICAL and both entries are Craftsmen; only the second initial differs, E against F, which is what a mistyped letter looks like. WHICH INITIAL IS RIGHT IS NOT SETTLED - this card keeps R.F. because it is the entry carrying the service number, and R.E. is recorded above as the discarded form.

Rank "Craftsman" added from IWM 1945 roll. Source: IWM Nominal Roll, LRDG Association, July 1945 (Imperial War Museum).

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