[Lynn Eades]

Thanks guys.
Boarded; I believe it to be when there is a "board of survey" and the item is written off by the boarding officer.
B.E.R= Beyond Economic Repair.

As an example. (creative accounting it's called)

Me watching a Storeman Corporal and a Captain.

The Corporal had laid out these broken tools in a row along the floor of his store. Amongst those tools were 3 chalk drawings of 8 inch Cresents. (the storeman was short of these 3 items)
The Captain moved along the line.
"What are those Corporal?"
"They are 8 inch Cresents Captain"
"What's wrong with them Corporal?"
The Corporal stepped forward with chalk in hand scratched a quick line through them, and replied
"They're broken Sir!

The Corporal had his 3 Cresents written off in the "Board of Survey" and his inventory again balanced

True story. The Corporal later became the only foreigner to ever serve in the Queens Guards (as a Beefeeter) There you go, I've pretty much named him.