Hi all, I m trying to track WW2 records for Victor Kenneth CHARMAN born 2/11/1921 who enlisted in Bathurst. Apparently the records office burnt down and the family can not trace any service records for this man. Surely he would have had service medals allocated. Anyone have any wonderful ideas on how to achieve this? They believe he served in the Aus Army, the family has a picture of him (in uniform) and his mates on return to Aus. Cheers Chris --------------------------------- On Yahoo!7 Music: Create your own personalised radio station.

Hi I had a chap who did a runner from his home state due to marital troubles, he enlisted under an assumed name that had part of his Mothers first name, only way I found out was I asked his surving brother what had happened, have you tried to put in the WW2 nominal roll his town of enlistment or his birth town, that can work, don't forget spelling of the surname could be slightly altered. Good luck Carol

Chris The "records office burnt down" sounds like a furphy since there are over million records at http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/ More probable is that he enlisted under an alias. Anthony Staunton -----Original Message----- From: chris tillett [mailto:ch_till@yahoo.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2006 4:41 PM To: AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-MIL] How to prove service WW2 Hi all, I m trying to track WW2 records for Victor Kenneth CHARMAN born 2/11/1921 who enlisted in Bathurst. Apparently the records office burnt down and the family can not trace any service records for this man. Surely he would have had service medals allocated. Anyone have any wonderful ideas on how to achieve this? They believe he served in the Aus Army, the family has a picture of him (in uniform) and his mates on return to Aus. Cheers Chris

Thank you to all who have replied. I have passed on your thoughts to my friend for her neighbour. I am hoping to get the photo which may help us a little more. My friend and I are both Administrators in the International Genealogy Research Centre on Paltalk if anyone is looking for any help anytime. http://www.geocities.com/internationalgenealogy2002/ Thank you all again Chris aka genie3249 chris tillett <ch_till@yahoo.com.au> wrote: Hi all, I m trying to track WW2 records for Victor Kenneth CHARMAN born 2/11/1921 who enlisted in Bathurst. Apparently the records office burnt down and the family can not trace any service records for this man. Surely he would have had service medals allocated. Anyone have any wonderful ideas on how to achieve this? They believe he served in the Aus Army, the family has a picture of him (in uniform) and his mates on return to Aus. Cheers Chris --------------------------------- On Yahoo!7 Music: Create your own personalised radio station. ==== AUS-MILITARY Mailing List ==== First AIF Order of Battle 1914-1918 http://www.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/index.html --------------------------------- On Yahoo!7 Messenger: Make free PC-to-PC calls to your friends overseas.

Chris, I may be wrong, but I think that the story about burnt records is a complete furphy. War records were lost through record office fires in the UK, due to bombing , an the US through a mishap. The AWM have records for WW1 & WW2, the latter available only to next of kin of deceased veterans. There is a searchible Nominal Roll which gives name/ rank/ service No. etc. on line at http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/ . I could find no Victor Kenneth CHARMAN you might wish to have a look. Regards, Dave chris tillett wrote: > Hi all, > I m trying to track WW2 records for > Victor Kenneth CHARMAN born 2/11/1921 > who enlisted in Bathurst. > Apparently the records office burnt down and the family can not trace any service records for this man. Surely he would have had service medals allocated. > Anyone have any wonderful ideas on how to achieve this? > They believe he served in the Aus Army, the family has a picture of him (in uniform) and his mates on return to Aus. > Cheers > Chris > > > --------------------------------- > On Yahoo!7 > Music: Create your own personalised radio station. > > > ==== AUS-MILITARY Mailing List ==== > First AIF Order of Battle 1914-1918 > http://www.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/index.html > > > >