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Royal marine
« on: Wednesday 16 August 23 19:31 BST (UK) »
Hi

Hopefully I’m in the right place , I had an uncle who I’d heard was in the Royal Marines during WW2 , I kind of took this with a pinch of salt , however I did try the Army records office, they had no record of him.

I forgot about it til today.

 I was in the local record office and found two newspaper articles, one in which he’d been picked up in his home town as a deserter , the other described him as an agricultural engineer and ex-marine.

I haven’t found anything on FindMyPast or Ancestry either….

Can someone point me in the right direction?

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Re: Royal marine
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 16 August 23 19:45 BST (UK) »
WW2 records are in the process of being transferred to the National Archives
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Royal Marine records come under the Navy not the Army.
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.

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Re: Royal marine
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 16 August 23 21:42 BST (UK) »
Hi thank you. Navy it is then