Hi Im a newbie here, have allways been fascinated by WW2 since I was a girl, while other teens read Romance comics I read every WW2 comic I could find When I was growing up the war was talked about & I used to love to listen to the old soldiers stories, every family I knew had members who served somehow. One Granpa - J.H Reynolds - served in the Pacific another - Sam Green - served in Burma both are from Yorkshire. Another Granpa I would love to find out more if I can was an Irish Catholic man called James Ward who 'took the Queens shilling' around 1932 , joined the Yorkshire ? Halifax ? Royal Engineers & served in WW2. He allso lived in Halifax Yorkshire.He survived the war. Thats all I know How can I find out more ? where they served etc Thanks for any pointers Oh I'm in New Zealand so cant go to the local museum or anything
Hi and welcome to the forum.. I would say your best bet is to try and find out his date of birth. With this info you may be able to get his service records from Glasgow which will identify any units he served with. This info them leads on to the units diaries etc. Regards Andy
Thanks for the suggestion but Records area no go as we have no birth or death date and he is not named on the birth certificate ...I tried allready I'll keep trying all avenues I want to find out what U can , what his service record was like , where he served etc anything really Thanks
This maybe a stupid Q. Have you looked through the census's then? Alternatively do any of your relatives have his medals? Some will/may have his service No. on them (Depending on what ones he received) and you can use this instead of a DoB. Andy
Remember WW2 period medals are not named, so if he has campaign stars and medals, they won't help much. The only source for information is sadly the MOD, as there is nothing online or in the Public Domain which could help you.
Remember WW2 period medals are not named, so if he has campaign stars and medals, they won't help much. The only source for information is sadly the MOD, as there is nothing online or in the Public Domain which could help you. Cheers for that Paul. I thought it was just the Defence Medal and 39-45 War Medal that wasn't named. Learn something new everyday
Sadly none of them were officially named. Boots The Chemist, and a couple of others, offered a naming service in the 50s, but very few ever bothered; my dad never did for example.