Hi My grandfather is David Baxter Chapman, he served in the Royal Artillery in WW2. I have sent off for his service records, but in the meantime...
Hi all, I am looking at the service record of a Grenadier Guardsman. He attended a month's course between 8 Jan and 4 Feb 1942 at D Ro's School,...
Hello I’ve been looking at this record and from looking at other national registration numbers this number marked in yellow seems too long to be a...
Hi all! I am just beginning my journey on gathering information on the life my G Grandfather would have lead during his time in the British Army,...
I've been having great luck and speed with MoD requests. Here is one I received today for an A&SH officer who had extensive pre-war service from...
Yet another poor soul trying to decipher a family member's service record! I think I'm most of the way there. I can see he was with the 54th anti...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help qith understanding my grandads RAF service records. It is slightly hard to read due to the handwriting and...
Hi all This is my first post and wondered if anyone could help with my Grandads Navy record. When I was a child I remember seeing some old...
Hi, I am researching my Grandfather's war service and finally after a long time waiting received his service record, which unfortunately has...
Whilst perusing grandad’s service record again just now, I noticed that on 3 September 1942 he was “granted S.P.P.” In an old thread from 2010,...
any help would be greatly appreciated as I cant read cursive to save my life.
Hello, I have just acquired my dad's army records (he was in 2 Recce) Two of the records have the left margin obliterated - is Statement of...
Does any one know what X list ( viiia).. might mean ?
A friend whose father died when she was very young has asked me to 'translate/explain' his service record, which she obtained from MoD....
Hello, I was wondering if somebody could help me decipher this service record? There are a lot of pages but here is my summary so far: Enlisted:...
Hi, I am looking at my Grandfather's service record and I seem to have discovered an error. According to his records, he enlisted in April 1944...
Hello, I have a little update from the last couple of weeks from speaking to different family members. So it looks like some of the records have...
Looking at a gent who joined as a boy in 1938 and became a sapper in the RE in 1943. I can see he was posted to NW Europe BLA on the 6/9/44 but...
Evening, I've recently obtained my grandmothers WAAF service record - she was Special Duties between 1943 and 1946. I've managed to decipher...
Hi, I have obtained my great grandfather's service record, which says he served in the 6th Battalion Northamptonshire regiment. Still, I'm finding...
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