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Title: Royal marine
Post by: alanjohn67 on Wednesday 16 August 23 19:31 BST (UK)

Hi

Hopefully I’m in the right place , I had an uncle who I’d heard was in the Royal Marines during WW2 , I kind of took this with a pinch of salt , however I did try the Army records office, they had no record of him.

I forgot about it til today.

 I was in the local record office and found two newspaper articles, one in which he’d been picked up in his home town as a deserter , the other described him as an agricultural engineer and ex-marine.

I haven’t found anything on FindMyPast or Ancestry either….

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Title: Re: Royal marine
Post by: Jebber on Wednesday 16 August 23 19:45 BST (UK)

WW2 records are in the process of being transferred to the National Archives
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Royal Marine records come under the Navy not the Army.

Title: Re: Royal marine
Post by: alanjohn67 on Wednesday 16 August 23 21:42 BST (UK)

Hi thank you. Navy it is then