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He formally enlisted for five years service in November 1942 and was sent to Dale Camp in Chester where he underwent 6 months basic infantry training. At the end of that year Ralph was posted to the 7th Battalion of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and moved to Shorncliffe Camp in Folkestone.
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Mar 6, 2019 · Boys as young as 14 lied about their age in order to enlist and fight in the Second World War. Here, HistoryExtra explores the stories of two such boys who enlisted – despite officially having to be 18 to do so…
- British Army Casualty Lists, 1939–1945
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- Absent Voters Lists, 1918–1925 and 1939
Search the online daily British Army casualty lists (WO 417) on Findmypast.co.uk (charges apply). These cover British Army officers, other ranks and nurses. They state the individuals’ rank, service number, date of becoming a casualty and type of casualty. It sometimes gives the unit/battalion number – you can use this to locate a unit war diary. T...
Search in WO 437by record type and year range for various records of Grenadier Guards, including: 1. discharge registers 2. registers of deserters 3. attestation forms 4. enlistment registers 5. muster rolls and pay lists 6. description books The series covers records from the middle of the 18th century onwards. You can also consult a list of the W...
This collection consists of the service records of individuals of Chadian origin who had originally served as part of the Third Fighting French battalion of de Marche, part of Free French forces in Africa during the Second World War. The individuals included in this collection had deserted the Free French and were eventually integrated as a Pioneer...
Search the soldiers’ effects ledgers (charges apply) covering April 1901 to March 1960 (from The National Army Museum) by name or regiment on Ancestry.co.uk. These list monies owed to a soldier who died in service. You may be able to purchase a transcript from the ledgers which usually show 1. full name 2. regimental number 3. date, and sometimes p...
British Army courts martial registers covering the Second World War are held at The National Archives and contain the name, rank, regiment, place of trial, nature of charge and sentence for each prisoner. There are several series of records containing registers for courts martial held in the United Kingdom and overseas (‘Home’ and ‘Abroad’). Click ...
Search for a soldier by name in the Absent Voters Lists, taken from electoral registers held at the British Library, on Ancestry.co.uk (charges apply) and Findmypast.co.uk (charges apply). The Absent Voter Lists enabled servicemen and women away from home to vote by proxy or by postal application. They record the address, service number and regimen...
A table showing how different corps and regiments numbered their soldiers. A transcription of Army Order 388 of 1920 which led to the creation of army numbers. I have written a separate article on how to find an army number and offer a Second World War soldier research service.
Feb 2, 2023 · The story of the electronic World War II Army Enlistment Record file begins with the disastrous July 12, 1973, fire at NARA's National Personnel Records Center for Military Personnel Records (NPRC).
Ralph Churches BEM (22 November 1917 – 18 October 2014) was an Australian army private who planned and carried out the biggest and most successful POW escape of World War II. One of eight children, Ralph was a 22-year-old bank teller when he enlisted in the Second Australian Imperial Force's 2/48th Battalion on 14 June 1940.
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Oct 17, 2024 · Look for discharge papers, pictures, medals, membership in a veterans organization like the American Legion, or the Veterans of Foreign wars, etc. Look for clues about where he or she lived and served. Dates of enlistment or selective service registration will be helpful along with the name military units they served with. Unit Histories.
