Hi, I know this is not WW2 related..... But does anyone know if you can get National Service Records for someone who is now deceased? I am hoping to get hold of my dads records. I have trawled the net but I can't see anything! Not beyond the realms of course that I am missing something! He was in the RAF around 1947 and although we have some family stories it would be nice to know if he got up to half the stuff his doting sisters say he did! Thanks, Parnel.
Same as with WW2 service records. Direct next of kin should be able to get a copy: Ministry of Defence | About Defence | What we do | Personnel | Service Records | Making a Request for Information held on the Personnel Records of Deceased Service Personnel Lee
My Dad served in RAF in early 50s. I got my Mum to order them from MoD. They came within weeks for free.
Thank you all. I Have downloaded the forms and will complete them on my Mum's behalf....... Watch this space! One story has it that he was chased across the roofs of his terraced street in Ince by the M.P's during his early days of not wanting to be there. Put in the cookhouse as punishment and seemed to enjoy it, very contrary man he was! Supposedly settled down as a cook and ended up with 8 men reporting to him.... Very bossy, so thats believable! He did do most of the catering at home with Mum as his sous chef and he certainly knew how to cater for large numbers.......... This was just as well as he had 10 children. The one thing I really want to find out is if he was actually based at Colchester in the winter of 1947 as my Mum believes him to have been...... My husband was born in Colchester during that infamously bad winter, his father was based there in the RAF. It would be very strange to find out they were there at the same time! My regret has always been that they never met........ But it seems they may well have done before either of us were born! I hope so, they would have liked each other.
One story has it that he was chased across the roofs of his terraced street in Ince by the M.P's during his early days of not wanting to be there. Put in the cookhouse as punishment and seemed to enjoy it, very contrary man he was! This sounds like an exaggeration on a number of counts: !. The MPs (Military Police) would not be involved at all; if any Forces police were involved it would be the RAF Police. 2. In the case of AWOL, the first people to call would, in fact, be the civvy police. 3. Neither the RAF Police nor the civvy police would risk their lives by chasing a man across the roofs over a mundane matter. It is possible that when the civvy police came calling, he got on to the roof, but the police would have left him to it. The fact that he seems to have got 'fatigues' as punishment indicates that it was not regarded as a very serious "crime".
