Question about Airmen's Records

[kiterunner]

I've found an entry in TNA Catalogue for one of my rellies:



Item reference AIR 79/644/69687
Clarence Ernest Philip Abrahams.
Context
AIR Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
Division within AIR Records of the Department of the Master General of Personnel and the Air Member for Personnel
AIR 79 Air Ministry: Air Member for Personnel and predecessors: Airmen's Records
AIR 79/644 69601 - 69700 (Described at item level).
Record Summary
Scope and content
Clarence Ernest Philip Abrahams.
Covering dates [1918-1928]
Held by The National Archives, Kew

He's quite a distant relative, so I don't want to pay lots for a copy of the records, but I can't find anything else at all anywhere about his service during or after WW1. Can anyone else? I know he didn't die in the war because he lived till 1979. There is a medal index card for a Clarence J Abrahams who was a Sergeant in the Royal Flying Corps, no 6969. But surely this is just a coincidence? There is a birth registration for a Clarence John Abrahams in 1897 (my Clarence Ernest Philip was born in 1890).

[Merry]

But surely this is just a coincidence?

Yes, because Clarence John Abrahams has his own file like the one you quoted above, with ref: AIR 79/91/6969

[kiterunner]

Aha! Thanks for that, Merry. It was just the numbers being so similar threw me.

I have managed to find him listed on Kevin Asplin's site where it says he joined the RFC or RAF April 1917. And looking at the research guides on TNA site, it doesn't look as though he would be listed anywhere else.

[Merry]

Annoyingly the wrong Clarence has an entry with photo here:

Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910-1950

:(

[kiterunner]

*pouts*