Could anyone help find my 3 great grandad's WW2 army records?

[ellimarie]

Hi all, hope everybody is doing well.

I'm quite new to researching family history and I have been searching for 3 of my great grandad's army records for quite sometime and i'm having no luck.

Any information or help as to where the best place to search for records id greatly appreciated! 

[nanny jan]

All service records post 1920 are held by the MOD and not online.  You can apply for  a copy, cost £30.

www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records

[steviebyday]

  there's a J.C.Willis. 6476137. 9th bat. Royal Fusiliers.  1943. camp 344. Stalag
                                                                                     Lamsdorf (Oberschlesien)
                                                                               

[BumbleB]

Apologies - what makes you think that your ancestor served in WW2?  I ask because my father, born 1910, didn't serve in WW2, and his father, born 1879, did not serve in WW1. 

[medpat]

My grandfather born 1873 served WW1 and my uncle born 1908 served WW2 - it could be the jobs they were doing or fitness that stopped them being conscripted.

My paternal uncle had a heart murmur so unfit WW2

Maternal uncle working on the railway - not conscripted WW2

My father making parts for spitfires from pre WW2 - not conscripted

[BumbleB]

Yes, I realise that, medpat - my father was identified as an "Aircraft Fitter" on my birth certificate in 1942 and I know that he was employed at Sealand - it was said that those who helped to build Spitfires were occasionally selected as "passengers", which ensured that they did a good job.     His father - 1911 - Stuff Manufacturer's Manager.