« Reply #13 on: Friday 25 September 09 14:00 BST (UK) »
Kia Ora
I recently wrote asking for 6 Records and was asked for $25! EACH! I couldn't understand why JOHN & WILLIAM BOYLE were digitised and not ALEXANDER BOYLE, assuming that they were being done in alphabetical order.
I replied (rather crossly) that Australia had theirs online FREE and that hard copies had been available FREE from Defence to NZ citizens at the rate of one per annum for years. I copied it to relevant ministers and members of Parliament!
INSTANT RESPONSE by phone.
IF you call into Wgtn Nat Archives and enter what you require, using a Readers Card, directly onto their computer you can order 5 records free, using the Reference Numbers from the site. Currently takes about 6 weeks and you are advised by email when they are online.
Apparently if you write from from out of town or overseas the charge applies!
Incidentally some men from WW1 (including my 2 grandfathers) are not listed on the site, although I know they both served in WW1.
In both cases, it seems, they applied to serve again in WW2. One was rejected on medical grounds but the other served guarding prisoners at Featherston Camp . Technically it appears that means their service is thus among the WW2 records and I will need to write to Defence first to get the release to WW1 before I can gain access for digitisation.
Hope that helps anyone else who knows their ancestor probably served but is not currently showing on the list.
Cheers
Dale
HUNTS: Fairy, Ding, Scotney, Swinton, Burgess, Brace
BEDS: Farey, Fairy, Young, Rootham, Gell, Wildman, Cooper. Deighton, Flavel.
NORTHANTS: Hills, Mobbs, Twelftrees,
DERBY: Fairey,
LONDON: Fairey, Fairy, Burgess, Williams, Tanser, Picknell, Vinall, Plampin, Mullins, Day, Folwell, Bamfield, Brown
WATFORD HERTS; Burgess, Williams
WARKS: Fairy, Ward, Stephens, Reeves, Hodgkiss, Byrne, Hunt, Edgeworth, Harper, Dudley,
WORCS: Callow, Lowe