UK WWII Army Records

[km1971]

... it's something of a miracle that this service is available at all. They have plenty of priority work to be getting on with. It's a working office, not an archive. The purpose of charging is clearly to limit the number of requests to a manageable level. I had to wait a lot longer than three months. If they are managing to meet the needs of the services effectively then they are not under resourced.

I have to disagree. The archive work and the current work could easily be separated with civil servants doing the current work for living ex-service men and women. The archive work could be given to unemployed youngsters and at £30 a time there should be no back log. It is just a question of putting enough people on the job until the backlog disappears.

Ken

[alanmack]

I have to disagree. The archive work and the current work could easily be separated with civil servants doing the current work for living ex-service men and women. The archive work could be given to unemployed youngsters and at £30 a time there should be no back log. It is just a question of putting enough people on the job until the backlog disappears.

If that happened I think the quality would suffer greatly and the complaints would increase accordingly.
My own request in 2012 took precisely twelve months from the date of receipt of the 'warning' letter. I was left wondering whether they were operating on a 'just-in-time' basis.

[bugbear]

And ... the records arrived today!! (Nov 10, 2014)

Good quality "photographic" photo copies.

Yippee!

 Bugbear

[Drew5233]

That was quick !

[bugbear]

That was quick !

I "may" be back with questions on interpretation, abbrevations etc.

 BugBear

[Drew5233]

Fire away although the main area that I can help with is IDing the units and dates served with them and then finding the unit war diaries to match that info.

There's a lot of info on WW2Talk regarding interpreting service records and the abbreviations like X Lists etc.

[bugbear]

There's a lot of info on WW2Talk regarding interpreting service records and the abbreviations like X Lists etc.

Oh Lummy, another forum to subscribe to 

 BugBear

[rosie99]

There's a lot of info on WW2Talk regarding interpreting service records and the abbreviations like X Lists etc.

Oh Lummy, another forum to subscribe to 

 BugBear

I would try asking the questions on here first