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Online BumbleB

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WW2 Service Records
« on: Saturday 04 February 23 18:08 GMT (UK) »
Have you seen this latest update information?  I do hope it is helpful  8)

https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/apply-for-someone-elses-records

ADDED:  Not sure whether this is the original information or not. 

From 1 April 2023 it will be free to apply for a military service
record from the MOD. You’ll need to pay the £30 fee if you submit an
application before 1 April.
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 04 February 23 18:33 GMT (UK) »
I saw that too BumbleB.

Good news and my husband will just have to wait until April to send for his late father's Records.

Dorrie
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Dickson, County Down & Dundee
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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 04 February 23 22:17 GMT (UK) »
I will apply in April but I guess it will still take a while as i live in New Zealand
Carol
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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 05 February 23 00:50 GMT (UK) »
Service records are currently being transferred to TNA.

There have been discussions elsewhere on rootschat about this and apparently TNA will not be issuing any service records till 115 years after the birth of the serviceperson.

A recent thread with more information here:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=869649.0

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 05 February 23 01:04 GMT (UK) »
Yes,  what I understand from all this - you can apply for records (free from 1 April 2023), however you need to provide a death certificate, unless the person was born more than 116 years ago.

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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 05 February 23 01:55 GMT (UK) »
Well, I should be ok. My grandfather was born in 1906 so he would turn 117 in October 2023
Carol
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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 05 February 23 03:28 GMT (UK) »
Great news BumbleB but unfortunately...

It looks like I won't benefit as my father was a Merchant Seaman (Merchant Navy)  :(...

"You can apply for records if they were in the Royal Navy (including Royal Marines), British Army, Royal Air Force (RAF) or Home Guard"

Annie
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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 05 February 23 09:56 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Rosinish on Sunday 05 February 23 03:28 GMT (UK)
It looks like I won't benefit as my father was a Merchant Seaman (Merchant Navy)  :(...

Merchant seamen's records are not affected by this. They are still held in the Fourth and Fifth Register of Seamen and are available as normal.
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Re: WW2 Service Records
« Reply #8 on: Monday 06 February 23 00:43 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: HMac on Sunday 05 February 23 09:56 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Rosinish on Sunday 05 February 23 03:28 GMT (UK)
It looks like I won't benefit as my father was a Merchant Seaman (Merchant Navy)  :(...
Merchant seamen's records are not affected by this. They are still held in the Fourth and Fifth Register of Seamen and are available as normal.
Regards
Hugh
Which means I will have the normal £30.00 fee to pay, it won't be free.

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"
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