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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Monmouthshire => Topic started by: pritchard on Tuesday 12 March 13 16:47 GMT (UK)
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I am trying to trace R.J.Pritchard who,I understand, was a member of the home guard at Abergavenny during the 2nd world war. Are there any records available that I can access on line please.
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There is a Home Guard digitisation project but not for any part of Wales. There's some info on this on the National Archives website, but not of any value to your research. It seems that very little has survived. Worth trying the County Archives; if you were hugely lucky some personal papers might have been deposited there. If your man was an officer then he'd be listed in the Home Guard List - I've found a couple of copies at Kew along with the Army Lists, but I don't think the HG List has been digitised by anyone. If you were very, very lucky a member of the family might have deposited papers in the Imperial War Museum or the relevant Regimental Museum, but the chances are that they would not be digitised. My father's papers are briefly catalogued at the IWM, but not digitised nor fully listed, for example.
Sorry to be disappointing.
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Many thanks for the information.I have to admit I wasn't expecting too much but I will try the County archives and see what they have.
Hugh