At 09:09 24/07/01 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >Iain, > > Thank you so much for the information on the 8th Army. These were > all >names of places that I heard as a child. Unfortunately, I did not pay much >attention and frankly at that time it bored me. (Dad, where ever you are up >there I'm sorry!). > > Do you happen to know if there is a web site that I can track his >records. I do have his service number.. > > Thank you again, > > Eva Anne Eva Anne, There is no such web site with that sort of information. The surviving records of all officers and soldiers who joined the British Army and who were discharged after 1922 are stored in the Ministry of Defence Record Office CS(R)2b at Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex. This includes territorial, volunteer, militia and home-defence forces, the women's corps and some colonial forces. The MOD Record Office also held the WWI records that have been progressively released to the Public Record Office over the past six years. You should note that there is some risk that the official archives of the British Army personnel records between 1922 and 1940 are incomplete. This is because up to half of the original pre-World War II British Army soldier's personal records were destroyed or badly damaged following a World War II German fire-bombing raid on the War Office documents repository at Hayes in 1940. Those that survived are often in a poor condition having been damaged by both fire and water. Information on the service records of an individual serviceman or woman may be obtained by application to: Ministry of Defence Records Office CS(R)2, Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF, United Kingdom. {Telephone ++44 (0) 208 573 3831}. They will send you an application form that will require a search fee of £25 per person being enquired after. Payment of the search fee does not guarantee a successful result. The MOD now requires applicants to certify that they are the individual concerned or their next of kin, together with a copy of the death certificate, as appropriate. The form asks for details of the other kin between the enquirer and the subject. This recent preoccupation seems to have arisen out of concerns caused by the Data Protection Act 1999, required by European Union legislation. There is reportedly a long delay in getting the response, the result will now be a statement of service and not copies of the original documents. Yours aye, Iain Kerr in Windsor, Berkshire Web Page at: http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/index.htm RootsWeb Sponsor and Listowner for the KERR; McTURK and SOUTHON lists and the WORLDWAR2 List. Maintainer of the Ayrshire Surnames Index Database at: http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/genuki/AYR/SID/indexsid.htm Maintainer of the GENUKI Ayrshire pages at: http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/genuki/AYR/index.htm