WW2 Service Records

[HMac]

Which means I will have the normal £30.00 fee to pay, it won't be free.

It is actually quite amazing the difference in the price of a WW2 military service record from the MOD which costs £30 at least until April 2023 and the WW2 record of a merchant seaman (CRS 10) held at TNA Kew which costs not £30 but £58.44. What a rip off this is.

Regards
Hugh

[BumbleB]

Unfortunately it seems as though we all have to make our decisions as to whether we want these records or not.  Very sad that this "free from 1 April 2023" doesn't appear to apply to all military records, nor unfortunately does it appear to include Merchant Navy = British Merchant Mercantile.   

https://www.hcmm.org.uk/about-us/the-merchant-navy.html#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20such%20thing,you%20are%20a%20government%20employee.

[Ruskie]

There is a bit more discussion about the “free” records on the other thread I gave a link to in my reply #3.