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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Elliebob on Thursday 07 March 19 16:38 GMT (UK)
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I haven't been on this forum for a long time but I know where to come for help. I am hoping to access the record of a court martial held in April 1941. I have the Gazette entry as the officer was cashiered. (London Gazette 29 Apr 1941)
"Y. 6- L.R. Maj. G. C. Wilmot (11781) is cashiered by sentence of a Gen. Court-Martial. 11th Apr.1941"
I think it must have been pretty serious for this during war time. He was my mil's first husband and served in the York and Lancaster Regt.
I am going to London at the end of April if I thought that the record was available at the National Archives or elsewhere would go to access it. I can't see any reference to it online.
Has anyone any idea how I can find out details please?
Thanks in anticipation, Ellen
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Y. 6- L.R.
It's Y. & L.R. The York and Lancaster Regiment.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35146/supplement/2426
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Thanks Shaun, I have got the pdf of that and is what I quoted from (the copy and paste from the pdf wasn't accurate! I knew that he served in the York & Lancs with my fil. As they were both born in 1896 they are long dead so can't ask them! :D
Ellen
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The Kew research guide suggest that the details of courts martial so relatively recently may be still closed:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/courts-martial-desertion-british-army-17th-20th-centuries/
As service records for that time are still not open to the public this may be the same.
Worth contacting them in advance?
MaxD
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Thanks. I am not sure. I thought I read somewhere that the records are closed for 75 years which would just take us to them being open. I think I will have to wait a bit and do some more research/message Kew as I may not have time to get out to NA anyway.
Best wishes, Ellen