On 04/02/2015 03:29, Bob Campbell via wrote: > Thank you Eve for your reply, > Would this mean his appointment may be recorded within the London Gazette? > If only I could register as a researcher, but this seems impossible with > an address and postcode outside of the UK! > > The Civil Service List are the records searchable on the National > Archives website? > I have received printouts from records from there in the past but > usually become lost trying to find the sets of records applicable. > There is a separate War Office list but it is unlikely to cover messengers. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>