Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Burma

I rely on Wiki to give me answer:

From: Royal Welch Fusiliers - Wikipedia

Upon amalgamation in 2006 there were:

From: Royal Welsh - Wikipedia

 

As I understand it both are accepted......

 

Another one of grandad.....he was young in this one.

 

This is going to take a while.

 

Am I right in thinking the black bar on top sleeve is Riffles?

 

No, it is an arm of service strip. The Royal Welch Fusiliers were not a Rifle regiment It would have been a solid red bar denoting an Infantry regiment.

 

Received this today, I assume a lot of us will be getting replies like this from now on?
Hope it's legit as it was thrown in my spam box and the security went mad when I opened it up.

Dear Mr XXXXX

Thank you for your recent request.
As part of the Defence Records Management Project, a percentage of archived Army service files have been transferred to the National Archives.
Please, see the link below for more information:
MOD Records Project - The National Archives
As the file you have requested has been transferred as part of the project, I would like to advise you to contact the team
at the following email address if you still wish to apply for a copy of the file:
modpersonnelaccessteam@nationalarchives.gov.uk
To allow the team at TNA to assist you please also quote the index number: APV00037XXX

I hope this has been of assistance.

Yours sincerely

Gabriele Kulikaite

Administrative Officer

 

Received this today..........Hats off to the staff at Kew so far.

Dear Mr Midson,





Thank you for your information request to The National Archives.
We believe we hold the record for W.F. Midson, SN: 4188019, and are handling your request.
Your reference number is CAS-102870-Z1XXXX Please quote this reference number in future correspondence with regards to your case to enable us to identify your request more easily.


We will update you on the progress of your request by 10/01/2023.


Your request is being processed by The National Archives’ MOD Access Service Team in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. To learn more about Freedom of Information, please visit the following webpage: Freedom of Information TNA

 

Update on the proceedings.

Good afternoon

Thank you again for your enquiry.

We are handling your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. To learn more about Freedom of Information, please visit the following webpage: Freedom of Information TNA

We have not yet determined if this record can be opened and will update you on the progress of your request by 24/01/2023.

Please be aware that this department is currently handling an exceptionally high volume of cases, so it will take us longer than usual to respond to your request. We will update you regularly on the progress of your case. To allow us to process cases as efficiently as possible, please note that we will not able to answer standard queries or hasteners of cases between these updates. We apologise for the delay and thank you for your continued patience. For more information, please visit our FAQs page.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request or the decision which has been reached, you have the right to ask for an internal review. These are conducted to examine the way in which a case has been dealt with and the decisions that have been made. An internal review will not necessarily provide a time frame in which a case will be completed or speed the process up. Internal review requests must be submitted within 40 working days of the date of this response and should be addressed to:

Quality Manager
Programme Management Office
The National Archives
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU

 

Nothing from them, date has passed but no further communication.


MOD Personnel Records (Access Service Team)











Dear Mr Midson,
Thank you for your continued patience with regards to your Freedom of Information request.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gives you the right to know whether we hold the information you want and to have it communicated to you, subject to any exemptions which may apply.



We apologise that we have not yet been able to provide you with your requested information. We are currently experiencing a very high volume of requests but please be assured that your case is still being progressed. If you have not already received your requested information, we will provide you with your next update by the week beginning 24/03/2023 (2 months). We are sorry for this further delay to your request. Please be advised that our current average processing time for a request is six months.

 

An update....sent the death cert again.




MOD Personnel Records (Access Service Team)
Mon, Oct 9, 9:08 PM (9 days ago)



to me








Thank you for your email,

This is an automated email response to confirm that your email has been received by the MOD Access Service Team at The National Archives (TNA). A member of our team will respond in due course.

Our team is currently processing a high volume of requests and we respond to all emails in date order.

Please be advised that our current average processing time for a Freedom of Information (FOI) request is 6 months.

If you have already provided an acceptable type of proof of death to The National Archives (TNA) please disregard the below.

Providing proof of death to The National Archives (TNA):

Please note The National Archives (TNA) does not have access to any copy of proof of death you may have previously sent to the Ministry of Defence.

Are you writing to us to request access to a record of a service person who was born less than 115 years ago?

If so, please provide an acceptable type of proof of death to this email address with your request.

Providing proof of death from more than 25 years ago does not guarantee that the record will be opened either in full or in part; but it makes it more likely. If dated less than 25 years ago, proof of death in some cases allows TNA to bring forward the record opening date.

Acceptable types of proof of death:

The only acceptable types of proof of death are copies of death certificates, war dead records, and published obituaries that include both date of birth and date of death.

We are unable to accept other types of proof of death.

To order death certificates, please see: Order a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate


A Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) certificate can be generated for free at that organisation’s website: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission | CWGC).

Kind regards,

 

So finally after just over a year I have now downloaded my Grandfathers records.

Bill (William) had served some years in the army and travelled about a bit.
He began service with 1Bn RWF then to 2Bn RWF
Germany 1928-1929
India 1930
Egypt 1931
Cyprus 1932
Wrexham UK 1940-1941
Madagascar 1942
South Africa 1942
India 1943-1946

Dear Mr Robert Midson,

Thank you for your request of 07/12/2022 07:00 regarding the service record APV000xxxxxxx: WILLIAM FREDERICK Midson (Service Number: 4188019).

I am pleased to present you with the link to where you can download your requested record:https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Please be aware that the above link with expire after 3 days. In order to have permanent access to your requested record, you will need to download it to your computer. To do this, please click the 'Download' button provided in the link. Once your record has downloaded, please ensure you know where it has saved to on your computer.



Due to the massive scale of this record transfer project, there are limitations to how much digital storage is available for storing scans of these records. Therefore, we urge you to download these as soon as possible as scans will be deleted.

 

Good to see you got the records eventually. Three days to open the email and download the documents seems ridiculously short. If you need help in interpreting the sheets feel free to post them here.

 

Many thanks, I will post up some papers as some I can't understand, although I have traced a lot of his movements via prt1 and 2 from Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.....a great help. Certainly found that he was originally with the 1st Bn then posted with the 2nd......gets a bit confusing after Madagascar. Is it best to start another post or just add it on to this one> Tia

 

Hi Robert999
Just add it on this one as you have a number of posts already - I suggest

 

Ok here's 2 sheets from Bill's record, He seems to have gone from RWF to (7spec M.C) a couple of times. I have some idea from the list of abbreviations and acronym list on the forum for some things. He's also posted to 41 Beach group.
Top half of sheet 26 shows where he embarked and disembarked after being mobilized (16-03-1940) including the dates.
He seems to have gone from L/cpl to cpl and back to fusilier a good few times.....not sure why?
I do know that a large amount of these guys were suffering from malaria after leaving Madagascar (from the Regimental records) he would have been in his early 30's by then
Any decoding will be much appreciated.
I have read a bit on beach groups and have looked on national archives for "41 Beach group" and there are a number of WO files I can look at if I book a visit, not much point if the info is sparse. I know 41 and 45 groups were the only 2 that remained. Tia