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World War Two / Re: Looking for military records
« on: Friday 12 April 24 10:50 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Friday 15 March 24 10:40 GMT (UK)
You don't need his service number but you will need his date of birth and a copy of his death certificate.

https://www.apply-deceased-military-record.service.gov.uk/

Thanks Shaun

Army required brief details of Service and their Official Proof of Death seems to be mandatory in the upload near the end, along with Date of Birth or Service Number.

We were also asked the year he left.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=881811.msg7546026#msg7546026

Mark

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World War Two / Re: RAF - David Herbert Smith
« on: Friday 12 April 24 08:34 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Monday 08 April 24 17:02 BST (UK)
ShaunJ posted this link on another post
https://www.apply-deceased-military-record.service.gov.uk/

To use this link for an Army enquiry (person born 1907 and since 1907) you will need to provide some brief military related Information about their Service, including proof of Death (P of D upload essential).

In their acknowledgement they have further requested his Date of Birth or his Service Number. Supplied D of B.

Added:
We will try and let you know if they find the record of my late relative a Private, who left the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at Bodmin, Cornwall in 1936, according to a DCLI letter we have (which provided quite a bit of the information required to complete the online Form questions).

2nd Add.
We have emailed photographs of the full DCLI letter and a later War Medal box (WW2) and explained that he worked in a Coventry factory during WW2 and assisted in recovery of Casualties on the infamous 1940 Blitz night. The box includes his name, address and a reference number on the outside and sent from Infantry Barracks, Exeter, Devon.

3rd Add
1936 DCLI letter has no Service Number, but confirms 6 & 1/2 years service.

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The Stay Safe Board / Newspaper Report
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 21:22 BST (UK)  »
A report in The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/06/pfizer-breached-regulatory-code-five-times-watchdog-finds

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World War Two / Re: RAF - David Herbert Smith
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 22:47 BST (UK)  »
1939 to 1974 BOAC records are held near Heathrow:-

British Airways Heritage Collection
Waterside
Speedbird Way
Harmondsworth
England
UB7 0GA

Correspondence address:
Waterside (HDGA)
PO Box 365
Harmondsworth
Middlesex
UB7 0GB

Contact email here ...
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a/A13529964
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Warwick University
Modern Records Centre ...
BOAC Operational Research Branch 1951-74
https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/BOA

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World War Two / Re: RAF - David Herbert Smith
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 19:25 BST (UK)  »
A description about this 'Sold' book mentions BOAC assistance to one of the Groups ...
https://www.compasslibrary.com/products/raf-transport-command-route-book-1944

"The group was sometimes aided by BOAC in the receiving, preparing, and dispatching of aircraft reinforcements into the North African and Mediterranean Theatres."

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World War Two / Re: RAF - David Herbert Smith
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 17:06 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: AngieToton on Monday 08 April 24 16:46 BST (UK)
I'm trying to find out if my husband's grandfather was in the RAF - David Herbert Smith born 7th July 1916 in Draycott ( Shardlow district ) Derbyshire

He worked for BOAC in Africa for a while but we've discovered a photo of him in we think is an RAF uniform but we can't seem to find anything to confirm he served in the RAF during WWII

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft (usually flown by RAF) were flown by BOAC during WW2 on supply / freight sorties.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205059412

Whitley BOAC Civil Registrations compiled by Nicholas Roberts March 1978 attached.
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The RAF Museum, Hendon, Dept of Research.
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/

Mark

Added

Index of Airmen and Airwomen
AIR 78/146/1
Smith, D - Smith, Doris Winifred.
1918 to 1975
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15625704

Some slips only use initials with surnames and Service Numbers.

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England / Re: George Edward Hood
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 16:26 BST (UK)  »
I presume you have this Baptism.
St James Upper Edmonton, London, Middlesex.

'Alleged Date of Birth' 22nd July 1920.
Baptism 26th September 1920.
Grace May Hood.
Parents George Edward & Clara May Hood, 22 Langhedge Lane,

1917 Marriage Certificate not found online, but it is indexed.

I also wonder if George Edward Hood had intended to marry Rose [ ? ] called her Rose Hood in 1911, made up 5 years married.

Then married Clara May Prior (1911 Census at South Bromley, 17yrs, born Poplar, Middlesex, with parents, Robert Prior 55 & Mary Ann 51yrs.
Clara May Prior, baptised 7 Oct 1894, both addresses 30 Yatton Street).
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For anyone else in the future looking for another unrelated to this thread George Edward Hood marriage in the area, some others found around this period:-

1910 St Philip, Lambeth
George Edward Hood 27 &
Lillia Elizabeth Weeden 25.

1912 Islington
George Edward Hood &
Emma Hutchins.

1918 St Luke Battersea
George Edward Crilly Hood &
Beatrice Emma Haines.

1920 Bethnell Green
George Edward Hood 21, Sailor &
Alice Elizabeth Molden. [Moldon in Index]

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England / Re: George Edward Hood
« on: Thursday 04 April 24 18:31 BST (UK)  »
Rose Hood, is a bit of a mystery.

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England / Re: George Edward Hood
« on: Thursday 04 April 24 17:42 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps one, or both of them, were each married to someone else?

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