Help recover Awol’s kit

This situation was highlighted on the ARmy Rumour SErvice forum, for veterans, serving soldiers and those with other ties to the British Army. 

An urgent appeal for help was made on behalf of a member (Awol) who had been dealt, shall we say, rather a poor hand of cards and believed he was out of options. 

One of the poor cards in that deck resulted in physical separation, to the tune of hundreds of miles and one Sea, between Awol, and the tools of his trade (mechanic), and items of great sentimental value (his books, some of which he’d had from a boy.) This was, as he put it, the Last Straw. 

This fundraiser, published only on the Army Rumour Service and donated wholly from its members, demonstrates the very best in people, helping to ease the pain of a ‘stranger,’ known for years as Awol on the forum, but known by many in the meat world too. The money raised will be spent funding a group to go with ‘Awol’ to the location of his things, pack, catalogue and manifest them for Customs purposes, and to pay for transporting them back to him in the UK. Any excess will be used in paying for storing them once there. 

I had no knowledge of Awol (other than seeing his posts over the years) until Wednesday, where I made contact with him, frankly and openly, because I wish I’d been able to help another veteran, and friend,  in similar straits before he took his own life in 2018. 

The reason I started the Go Fund Me page is that many people were offering on the forum to put a penny in the jar, but no one was coming up with the jar.

 

The explanation above had been deliberately redacted as a result of a new member of the forum approaching the national Press with the story in order to make mischief. Unsurprisingly, the necessitated vagueness flagged the fundraiser as worthy of attention from the Trust and Safety team. 

I hope this longer explanation satisfies those suspicions without compromising the objective of recovering Awol’s prized things, and making his Christmas a little brighter. 

 

Thanks

Sarnian