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Frances

Frances Report 13 Oct 2007 16:30

can any one tell me how i can find out when and were my uncles inlisted in the army, one in ww1, 2 in 1920's and 1 in ww2 al around the edmonton/walthamstow area, with out having to pay disclosures at glasgow please
thamks
fran

Researching:
Goodall family from Edmonton, Bexley, Tottenham area, Broom, Brown and Long families from Norfolk and lastley my elusive Attwell/Atwell family Middlesex area?

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 13 Oct 2007 16:50

Ancestry have got the pension records for WW1 these will normaly give you info on where they joined up anything after 1921 will be at the address below

The national archives will have their medal cards for WW1

Enquiries about information from Army personnel records should be made to the appropriate address below:

Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended before 1921*

The National Archives
Ruskin Avenue
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Telephone 0208876 3444
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended between 1921 and 1997

Army Personnel Centre
HQ Secretariat
Historical Disclosures
Mail Point 400
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow
G2 8EX
Tel: 0845 600 9663, option 1, then option 3

Officers and Soldiers of the Foot Guards Regiments

Regimental Headquarters
The ******* Guards
Wellington Barracks
Birdcage Walk
London
SW1E 6HQ

***(Insert as appropriate: Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish or Welsh)

Roy

Janet

Janet Report 13 Oct 2007 16:50

You can go to Kew to research W War 1 and after W War 1 up to 1922,

You can download from TNA, medal entitlements for both w War 1 and 2 at £3.50 per throw.

You can download all W War 1 Soldier docs that have survived fro Ancestry at a cost of joining Ancestry or taking advantage of their 3 days free access.

W War 2 docs will have to be done through Glasgow although you can access war diaries at Kew, but these will only help with where regt was and what battles, and will not be helpful on a personal note for your ancestor although very interesting for putting flesh on to your bones.

W War 2 Docs are unlikely to be available before 75 years after end of W War 2 which is about 2020 so its a long haul to wait until then. W war 1 docs only came on the scene early 1990's, about 1993, if I remember rightly.

Janet NLB

Frances

Frances Report 13 Oct 2007 16:58

thanks for that will try ancestry first dont have army no's for three of them but thanks
fran

Researching:
Goodall family from Edmonton, Bexley, Tottenham area, Broom, Brown and Long families from Norfolk and lastley my elusive Attwell/Atwell family Middlesex area?

was plain ann now annielaurie

was plain ann now annielaurie Report 13 Oct 2007 17:43

Not all WW1 service records are on Ancestry - there are a LOT more at Kew.