WW1 Medal Card - Which Medals?

[RRTB]

SC, this is one site where "I just don't like "to bother people" by asking for lookups etc and milking their kindness.  So I rarely ask for things" certainly doesn't apply! So ask away.

RRTB

[MaxD]

You refer in an earlier post to WW2 being a mystery.  While it is true that there is no "look up list" (just under 3 million men and women by the end of the war would be some list!!) the task is not always impossible.

You refer also in your profile to looking for Sgt Bennett, presumably a WW2 man.  Despite what some web sites would have you believe, all post 1920 service records are still held by relevant branches of the MOD and can, subject to certain conditions, be applied for.  It does cost but is the only way to get such records and the amount of information to be supplied is relatively small.  The procedure is described here https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/overview.  Worth reviewing what you have and,as RRTB says, the very aim of Rootschat is to help folk with queries.

maxD

[StanleysChesterton]

.... still held by relevant branches of the MOD and can, subject to certain conditions, be applied for.

I did look into it and it got complex.  So I was waiting until 100 years after birth, another 3-4 years. 

From memory I think it was "100 years since birth - or after they're dead, which you have to prove".  Or you have to be next of kin/similar.

Trouble is - I wanted the information to find out WHEN he died, so I can't tell them when he died - and I am not the next of kin either.



So they made it impossible for "A person to get the records of somebody who was born less than 100 years ago".

I just checked your link, overview says one of two instances:
1] They are YOUR records.  Well, they're not mine.
2] Records of somebody who is deceased - they do appear to have changed the wording now to be inclusive as they say "or you are researching them" - they didn't say that before I don't think

Then you think "oh I'm researching" and click through ... and it gets harder. I do have permission of "immediate next of kin", but would then need that in writing I guess, so another step.  I've just had the OK over the phone about a year ago. "Yeah, you can do it if you want, I won't bother".

You also need to know their full date of birth - that's one of the things I was hoping to get from the records.

All I have at the moment is: first/last name (no middle name exists to my knowledge, age 33 in early 1952. Father's first name (and last, presumably), but it's a common name.  Service number and base given as an address in 1952.