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Service Personnel and
Veterans Agency
The Service Records
section of the SPVA website is perhaps the best place to start
researching the records of any British servicemen.
Go to:
http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html
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Commonwealth War
Graves Commission (CWGC)
2 Marlow Rd
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 7DX
Tel: 01628 634221
Website:
http://www.cwgc.org/
Maintains records of
burials and commemorations of Commonwealth war dead in over 170
countries. The CWGC's website includes a magnificent search engine
which lists all the 1.7 million men and women from the British
Commonwealth who died in the two World Wars. If you are researching
someone who died on active service, this is the best place to start.
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National Archives
(NA)
Ruskin Avenue
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Tel:
0208-876-3444
Web Site:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The NA holds the
personal service records of soldiers and officers who served until 1920.
Only a small percentage of the WW1 service records survive, the majority
having been destroyed during WW2.
The NA also holds
the following:
- Pay Lists.
- Muster Rolls.
- Records of
pensioners of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
- Medal Rolls
for campaigns between 1793 and 1904.
- Medal Index
Cards (WO 372) and Medal Rolls (WO 329) for WW1, which lists the
medals awarded to individuals and may confirm name, Army number,
rank or Regiment, and the medal roll books in Regimental or unit
order (1914 Star, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and
Silver War Badge.
- War Diaries
for WW1 and WW2.
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Army Personnel
Centre (APC)
HQ Secretariat
Historical Disclosures
Mail Point 400
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow G2 8EX
Tel: 0845 600
9663, option 1, then option 3
Web Site:
http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/army.html
The APC Historical
Disclosures Section holds personal service records of soldiers and
officers between 1921 and 1997. For ex-Army personnel, or their
widows/widowers, it can supply statements of service or confirmation of
particular aspects of service from the records it holds. This service is
free. It can also provide the same service for members of the family or
other members of the public, subject to the consent of the next of kin
and the payment of a fee.
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