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Find My Past RAF service records
« on: Saturday 14 April 18 20:42 BST (UK) »
Would anyone be able to tell me what information is on these records

I only subscribe to ancestry at present but it came up with a hint for my great grandfather Arthur Weston (on his death record he is Arthur Frank Weston - Frank was his twin brother and he seems to have adopted his name as a middle name at some point).  He was born 13 Dec 1901 in East Harptree to William and Emily

The transcript on ancestry is as follows
Name   A Weston
Gender   Male
Age   16
Birth Date   13 Dec abt 1902
Birth Place   East Harptree, Bristol, Glob
Service Date   7 Dec 1918
Service Number   326037
Father   William Weston
Next of Kin   William Weston

Is there any more information than this on the find my past records - if there is I'll purchase the credits,

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« Reply #1 on: Saturday 14 April 18 21:38 BST (UK) »
There is an image of his service record.
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday 14 April 18 22:05 BST (UK) »
If a document is on a site that you don't subscribe to.

Perhaps if you are a Member of your local Library or Archives / University Archives (usually free in England, but will probably need formal printed name & address & photo ID like a Passport to join or get a Readers Ticket), maybe you can see it / download it there? It might be possible to save it to memory stick, or probably save it, then email it to yourself?

Our Library has two of the main Family History sites.

Or print it for the Library print cost?

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« Reply #3 on: Saturday 14 April 18 22:13 BST (UK) »
Thanks both

Up till now I'd assumed he was too young to have served in the first world war (16 when the armastice was signed) - his elder brother died  in Flanders in 1917


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« Reply #4 on: Saturday 14 April 18 22:18 BST (UK) »
Doesn't look as if he actually served, he enlisted 7.12.1918 as a Boy.
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 14 April 18 22:20 BST (UK) »
Any ideas what that would have involved?

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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 14 April 18 22:27 BST (UK) »
He only served 175 days, then was transferred to the Reserve.
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.