Re: WW2 service records
Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 20:57
It has just taken about 16 months but a bit of good news for today. I had an email from the National Archives with a link to download my dads service records. 37 pages in total, some repeated information and interesting reading. I have lots of dates that I can apply to his six and bit years service before he was demobbed to the Z reserve, subject to recall for another 4 years if required, didn't know that.
No detail on his BEM (Mil) award only the dates. I can also see that he did 96 hours in the guardhouse for having contraband equipment belonging to His Majesties Army at one point when he shouldn't. No actual circumstance but it involved a single round of .45 ammunition! I will never know. I know he went in medically A1 and left Iceland as B7 and downgraded from infantry. East Yorks first then the RAOC where he became Armoury Store-man Ist class, which is the role he won the medal in. He was discharged to the reserve with the rank of Corporal.
National Archives haven't asked for any money yet.
No detail on his BEM (Mil) award only the dates. I can also see that he did 96 hours in the guardhouse for having contraband equipment belonging to His Majesties Army at one point when he shouldn't. No actual circumstance but it involved a single round of .45 ammunition! I will never know. I know he went in medically A1 and left Iceland as B7 and downgraded from infantry. East Yorks first then the RAOC where he became Armoury Store-man Ist class, which is the role he won the medal in. He was discharged to the reserve with the rank of Corporal.
National Archives haven't asked for any money yet.