David Thomas Walters 43rd (2/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regt.) Regt. Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

David Walters in the UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Name: David Walters
Given Initials: D
Rank: Trooper
Death Date: 24 Jun 1944
Number: 5389838
Birth Place: Glamorgan
Residence: Berkshire
Branch at Enlistment: Royal Armoured Corps
Theatre of War: At sea
Regiment at Death: Reconnaissance Corps
Branch at Death: Royal Armoured Corps


If any of Admin see this I assume that words such as Honour and Theatre come up as not spelt correctly because the base for this forum is set to English (USA) - is it possible to change that??

TD

 

You have both my heartfelt thanks and deepest gratitude.

 

I would like to say thank you to all of you as well - I am the aforementioned sister! I have been enjoying learning about my grandfather and the history of my family!

 

Here is his name on panel 7

 

Thank you very much. You all have been so very helpful. I know absolutely nothing about my family on my mother’s side other than what I have learned here. If anyone could recommend any websites that are good for researching family ancestry in the UK I would greatly appreciate it.

 

UK Ancestry and UK Records on Fold 3 Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records Fold3 - Historical military records
British Newspaper Archive Home | Search the archive | British Newspaper Archive
Find My Past Trace your Family Tree Online | Genealogy & Ancestry | findmypast.co.uk
Forces War Records Discover The Military Ancestor In Your Family With Forces War Records
National Archives The National Archives

Useful for a start!

 

I would only add to Simon's post #27 above, that there is only ONE place to obtain a serviceman's official records, and that is from the MOD as per my post #2, the link is here:
Get a copy of military service records

Other sites may give the impression that they are available elsewhere but that is not the case. Ancestry and FMP do have some WW2 records but normally limited to POW and casualty lists, the latter does not give details of the circumstances, just name, rank, number and date.

I see that Renee already subscribes to Ancestry so that is a good start, if the existing subscription is for the USA then it may be necessary to extend this to worldwide as UK subscribers would have to do for records elsewhere. Good hunting.

 

Thanks guys, once again you have the info that I need.