Post by Dave Homewood on May 22, 2024 18:35:59 GMT 12
I was chatting with two sisters the other day whose father was a Navigator-Bomb Aimer in the RNZAF during WWII. He was attached to the RAF and flew in Halifax and Stirling bombers.
One of them asked me a question that I could not answer. She asked how did the payment of wages to RNZAF personnel work if they were overseas?
I know that the Air Force, just like the Army and Navy, had Pay Parades where you lined up and signed for your pay packet (every fortnight?).
But she specifically wanted to know, if the airman had a wife and children back in New Zealand, how did some of his pay get sent to them?
Were the Kiwis based in the UK, the Pacific and elsewhere paid by the NZ government? And if so was an allotment for family taken out of it and put into the family bank account before the airman got his pay packet (which he'd use for local purchases, beer, etc)?
There was no such thing as electronic banking, and all transactions would be manual.
Does anyone know?
One of them asked me a question that I could not answer. She asked how did the payment of wages to RNZAF personnel work if they were overseas?
I know that the Air Force, just like the Army and Navy, had Pay Parades where you lined up and signed for your pay packet (every fortnight?).
But she specifically wanted to know, if the airman had a wife and children back in New Zealand, how did some of his pay get sent to them?
Were the Kiwis based in the UK, the Pacific and elsewhere paid by the NZ government? And if so was an allotment for family taken out of it and put into the family bank account before the airman got his pay packet (which he'd use for local purchases, beer, etc)?
There was no such thing as electronic banking, and all transactions would be manual.
Does anyone know?
