Hi , my grand father died about 15 years ago and was in the 27th mechanical equipment platoon. I was wondering if anyone can tell me about what they did in ww2 and how i can find out more about my grand father as i was only 7 when he died and he didnt tell me much. My mother has discovered some of his paperwork. his details are:- army no. 2002/22 rank. l/cpl surname. Hodgson christian name. Robert 27 mech eqpt platoon date of enlistment. 16th feb 1940 any information would be great. thanks jack
Welcome to the forum Jack Starting point: apply for his service records 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 regards Clive
Catlow welcome to the forum Your best plan of action is to search the National Archieves for the units war diaries and either go yourself and copy/review them or ask one of the members who provide this service at a modest cost.
I have just found some badges of his. Two that say royal engineers on theme,and another one that has a gin on it,with 3 coloured sections behind it (green ,blue,red) ,what does this mean?
