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Title: Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?
Post by: ellimarie on Friday 08 January 21 21:03 GMT (UK)
Hi all, hope everybody is doing well.

I'm quite new to researching family history and I have been searching for 3 of my great grandad's army records for quite sometime and i'm having no luck.

Any information or help as to where the best place to search for records id greatly appreciated!  :)
Title: Re: Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?
Post by: nanny jan on Friday 08 January 21 21:43 GMT (UK)
All service records post 1920 are held by the MOD and not online.  You can apply for  a copy, cost £30.

www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records
Title: Re: Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?
Post by: steviebyday on Saturday 09 January 21 15:42 GMT (UK)
  there's a J.C.Willis. 6476137. 9th bat. Royal Fusiliers.  1943. camp 344. Stalag
                                                                                     Lamsdorf (Oberschlesien)
                                                                               
Title: Re: Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?
Post by: BumbleB on Saturday 09 January 21 16:42 GMT (UK)
Apologies - what makes you think that your ancestor served in WW2?  I ask because my father, born 1910, didn't serve in WW2, and his father, born 1879, did not serve in WW1. 
Title: Re: Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?
Post by: medpat on Saturday 09 January 21 16:53 GMT (UK)
My grandfather born 1873 served WW1 and my uncle born 1908 served WW2 - it could be the jobs they were doing or fitness that stopped them being conscripted.

My paternal uncle had a heart murmur so unfit WW2

Maternal uncle working on the railway - not conscripted WW2

My father making parts for spitfires from pre WW2 - not conscripted
Title: Re: Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?
Post by: BumbleB on Saturday 09 January 21 16:59 GMT (UK)
Yes, I realise that, medpat - my father was identified as an "Aircraft Fitter" on my birth certificate in 1942 and I know that he was employed at Sealand - it was said that those who helped to build Spitfires were occasionally selected as "passengers", which ensured that they did a good job.  :o   His father - 1911 - Stuff Manufacturer's Manager.