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WW2 SERVICE RECORDS - HELP PLEASE
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Madmeg | Report | 5 Mar 2009 16:14 |
Hi all |
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Sam | Report | 5 Mar 2009 16:27 |
All Naval personnel prior to 1972 were given their service records when they were discharged: |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 5 Mar 2009 16:28 |
Might be worth you reading the Research Guide to Operational records of the Royal Navy in WW2 on the National Archives website. This gives guidelines as to what they hold, but most would involve you going to Kew or getting someone to go for you. Bear in mind that the log may not be too useful. |
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Staffs Col | Report | 5 Mar 2009 16:44 |
If a record refers to anything being alongside, it would mean that it was a vessel in harbour / port |
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Madmeg | Report | 5 Mar 2009 17:16 |
Hi folks |
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Madmeg | Report | 6 Mar 2009 23:01 |
Hi Elizabeth, dad was not an officer, he only made Able Seaman. Just so sad there is nothing to tell me about his time in Singapore, Rangoon, Burma, Sri Lanka, him missing presumed dead, etc. |
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Vicci | Report | 7 Mar 2009 00:47 |
Other places to try are the |
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Researching: |
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Staffs Col | Report | 7 Mar 2009 09:09 |
Have pm'd you Margaret |
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Madmeg | Report | 8 Mar 2009 00:32 |
Thanks, Elizabeth, not my Stokes lot. For some reason, only my dad from his family served in WW2, he was plain Fred, and of no note at all during he war, except he was the best dad in the world to me. |