Hi Carol This may help Copied from a previous posting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended between 1921 and 1997 Army Personnel Centre HQ Secretariat Historical Disclosures Mail Point 400 Kentigern House 65 Brown Street Glasgow G2 8EX Tel: 0845 600 9663, option 1, then option 3 For records of soldiers whose service ended after 1921 you will be sent a couple of forms. One is for information on the soldier whose records you are requesting. You need to provide name and age as an absolute minimum. Preferably, location at enlistment and regiment plus any information on places served. The second form is to certify that you are next of kin. You will not be given the information unless you are next of kin (or the soldier themselves of course). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I would think his TA records would be with his Army records. I gather it costs around 30gbp and takes quite a time, I seem to recall 6 months being mentioned but that may be wrong, a phone call should clarify they have TA records and the ETA + cost Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Hello > > Does anyone know if there are any records held on members of the > Territorial Army Reserve. > > I am interested in any records held for the Tynemouth/North Shields > area. My father was a member of the Territorial Army before the 2nd World > War. When war broke out he was called up along with other members of the > T.A. They left for France from Tynemouth Station being piped aboard the > train by a piper. I have no idea which regiment my father was part of > although he did end up at Dunkirk. > > Regards > > Carol

Just to add to this: there may be no cost if a person is asking for his/her own papers, or if the person is the widow/widower of the service person. My mother obtained her late husband's army plus her own ATS papers at no cost. Someone other than next of kin may obtain the papers so long as they have written authority from the next of kin. However a charge would then be made. The papers are largely personnel documentation, with details of postings, promotions and the like. There will probably be no information regarding war activities, except for dates of embarkation to theatres of war perhaps. On the form the following are mandatory: surname and forname(s) and service number or date of birth of the person whose papers are requested. Cheers, Ian Nivard Ovington wrote: > Hi Carol > > This may help > > Copied from a previous posting > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended between 1921 and > 1997 > > Army Personnel Centre > HQ Secretariat > Historical Disclosures > Mail Point 400 > Kentigern House > 65 Brown Street > Glasgow > G2 8EX > Tel: 0845 600 9663, option 1, then option 3 > > For records of soldiers whose service ended after 1921 you will be sent a > couple of forms. > One is for information on the soldier whose records you are requesting. > You need to provide name and age as an absolute minimum. > Preferably, location at enlistment and regiment plus any information on > places served. > > The second form is to certify that you are next of kin. You will not be > given the information unless you are next of kin (or the soldier themselves > of course). > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > I would think his TA records would be with his Army records. > > I gather it costs around 30gbp and takes quite a time, I seem to recall 6 > months being mentioned but that may be wrong, a phone call should clarify > they have TA records and the ETA + cost > > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > > > >> Hello >> >> Does anyone know if there are any records held on members of the >> Territorial Army Reserve. >> >> I am interested in any records held for the Tynemouth/North Shields >> area. My father was a member of the Territorial Army before the 2nd World >> War. When war broke out he was called up along with other members of the >> T.A. They left for France from Tynemouth Station being piped aboard the >> train by a piper. I have no idea which regiment my father was part of >> although he did end up at Dunkirk. >> >> Regards >> >> Carol >>