Service record info

[Hair Bear]

Hi,

We've just found some effects belonging to my late father in law and was wondering if it's possible to research his military records from his service no.?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

[Cyclone303]

Hi Mate,

 

I may be able to help but I first need to know what country your father in law served with and what period?

 

Chris

 

Hi,

We've just found some effects belonging to my late father in law and was wondering if it's possible to research his military records from his service no.?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

[Lauren Child]

This might help -

http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf/famhist-army2010-04.pdf‎

 

There's an email address listed of "collections@iwm.org.uk" that you could try and see what they say.

[Hair Bear]

Thanks, we'll delve a little deeper to make sure we have the right info then see what we can do.

Rob.

[RAFMT]

I assume he served either in WW2 or post war doing national service?

The MoD still holds the service records for post 1920(ish) servicemen and women:

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

Can take a while to get them though, and they're not always too helpful.

Good luck with the search

[LarryH57]

I thought this thread might be useful to me too for looking in to my family history but for some reason the links in this thread do not work. Any chance of the new ones?

[Lauren Child]

I think something's gone a bit wrong - the link on my old post has got corrupted (there are some extra characters at the end of it). Here's the link again http://archive.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf/famhist-army2010-04.pdf

[RAFMT]

Here's the link i originally put up:

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

But as i said before only for those in service after 1920. Those who left after the end of ww1 are at the National Archives.