I'm looking for the service number of my great great uncle Douglas Gillespie Aird who served in the 5th British Infantry Division from 1939. I'm...
Attached is a photo of personnel from 203 Squadron, RAF, from 1946. My Great-Uncle , Jack Godding, is bottom left and served in the SE Asia...
Hello, it is possible to tell from a service record whether my grandad saw active service or if he was a clerk? He was in India for 3 and a half...
John "Jack" Borton b. 1922, Reading is my Mum's Uncle and I have fond memories of him being a very "dapper" quietly spoken gentleman. I recently...
Sgt. A. Johnson, Mentioned in Despatches "For gallant and distinguished services in Burma and on the eastern frontier of India..." [ATTACH]...
Hi, I hope everyone in this group had a wonderful Christmas. I have spent hours and hours trying to find the records of a Leonard Horton. His...
hi newbie doing his first post. My father was a stoker apparently after enlisting in 1943 , I’ve attached a picture in case anyone far more...
Hi everyone - I’m a newby so forgive me if I mis-speak at all. I am trying to find out dates of home leave for my father who served in Egypt,...
I am hoping you may be able to point me in the direction of any published West Yorkshire Regimental history covering the following periods: The...
Hello everyone, As promised, an opening thread looking in to some details about my late grandfather. I am lucky to have his Service medals, as...
I have been fortunate to receive, from the RAC Museum at Bovington, my father's tracer card covering his RAC service from 1944 to 1947. A couple...
My father was repatriated from India as a trooper in the RAC in 1945. His service record states he embarked for the UK in Bombay on 20th June...
Charley F. has recently visited this website, as reported elsewhere and added here for general use. He posted:Good luck with managing to...
Thanks to a "lurker" a curious bio of a secret operations officer, whose bio for WW2 includes: 29 April 1939 Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in...
Helping out a Chindit family work out their soldier's WW2 service. He served in Burma in 1944, but before that was working with I (S.M.E.) during...
Whilst looking for Burma related items in an online newspaper search I came upon an interesting snippet of a RAFVR Observer/Navigator who was...
Could the 3rd Reserve Regiment have been used as a cover name in the UK for someone who was to be sent to India to join the 3rd Indian Division (...
Hi, this is my first ever post so apologies if it doesn't look right. My Father was a wireless operator with the Royal Artillery. He signed up I...
I wonder if anyone has the detail of the 1st QOCH War Diary for June 1945?...
Hi again, I got the papers that Albert had kept (only his discharge paper which he probably needed for work) and was also sent the service record...
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