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Offline wattspamela31

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royal armoured corps ww2
« on: Sunday 10 May 15 20:27 BST (UK) »
Can anyone give me any advice as to where i canfind out regimental information or any information about john andrews, trooper, royal armoured corps, died 31/1/46. He died as a result of the war and has a commerative stone in southern cemetery,  manchester. I haveno idea what a trooper would have done, what the royal armoured corp did or where he may have served. Thanks for any advice that you can share. Pam

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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 10 May 15 20:56 BST (UK) »
Hi Pam,
A trooper is the basic rank in the Cavalry which became the Royal Armoured Corps. The headquarters are in Bovington Camp, Dorset at the Royal Armoured Corps Tank Museum. Records for ww2 are still in the war office and only available, at a cost, to next of kin. The address, details and forms can be googled
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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 10 May 15 20:56 BST (UK) »
A Trooper is the equivilent of a Private.

I would start by looking at their website.

http://www.army.mod.uk/armoured/23446.aspx
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 10 May 15 21:00 BST (UK) »
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (www.cwgc.org) says:

Trooper 7915059 John Andrews, Royal Armoured Corps
Died 31/1/1946
Manchester Southern Cemetery, Sec. K. Nonconformist. Grave 74
Son of John and Sarah Jane Andrews, of Longsight, Manchester; husband of Jessie Andrews, of Levenshulme, Manchester.


His service record will still be with the MOD.
See here to apply: https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records
There is a £30 fee.

Details of Royal Armoured Corps here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Armoured_Corps_Regiments_in_World_War_II

They were tanks and reconnaissance.
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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 10 May 15 21:23 BST (UK) »
Just to register an interest in this Thread. Most likely he had been in a Recce Regiment RAC which had been converted from infantry. They were equipped with armoured cars and attached to infantry divisions as a generality. Don't know why no RAC regimental number on his memorial. If regimental number found I would know who it belonged to.

Added Monday:-  No regiment RAC given. 
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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 30 June 15 07:18 BST (UK) »
He would probably have been attached to   a regiment, such as the Warwickshire regiment  or one of the other "county"  regiments.

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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 30 June 15 16:16 BST (UK) »
You say "He died as a result of the war". What is your source for that?

As regards obtaining service records they are not totally confined to next of kin. The details are here:

https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records

The cause of death will be noted on his death certificate.

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Re: royal armoured corps ww2
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 15:41 BST (UK) »
Regarding Service Records:

He died over 26 years ago so no next of kin approval is required. You can use the CWGC details on the link below as proof of death so you don't need to pay for a death certificate, unless you want to. Just click on the download certificate, print it off and send it with your application form and £30.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2403187/ANDREWS,%20JOHN

His Army No. is from a block of numbers allocated to the RAC during WW2 so he would have been with this Corps from his enlistment, the only way you will find out his unit is via the service records route.

Good luck
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