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Hi can any one help please. My grandfather Alfred Redfern was in the army ww2.I have just come across a tracer card .On it it says Alfred Redfern Enlistment date 17th oct 1940.Regiment Royal Artillery. Military Unit 216 TRG Regiment RA (searchlight ) Service number 1629333. What does TRG REGIMENT R.A SEARCHLIGHT mean thanks hope some one can help

Training Regiment Royal Artillery Searchlight.
Advice on obtaining World War 2 service records can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/military_chat/thread/1380443

Hi thankyou for your help

Alfred
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Last name Redfern
Original source Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942
Service number 1629333
Record set World War 2 Allies Collection
Regiment The Royal Regiment Of Artillery
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Year 1941
Subcategory Second World War
Country Great Britain
Collections from Americas, Australasia, Great Britain, Ireland, UK None

reposted to laa 26/1/1940
discharged o/a 1954
res 21/2/1948

thank you Maddie,is there any more info on my grandfather please

The military info you have been given is all that is online

For anything more, you will have to buy the records - as per links above

REDFERN, ALFRED REDFERN
GRO Reference: 1909 J Quarter in SHEFFIELD Volume 09C Page 578

ok thank you ErikaH

1939 Register
3 Halliwell Close, Sheffield, Sheffield C.B., Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Alfred Redfern 15 May 1909 Male Builder's Labourer Married 177 1
Sarah A Redfern 07 Jun 1911 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties - 177 2
2 closed records

What "other " information are you looking for Janette.

If it's WW2 service you'll have to send for his documents - link posted earlier.
RA attestations happen to be available on Find My Past, otherwise WW2 full records aren't online.

Looking at the original of the info posted by Maddie it looks like he was reposted to 121 LAA 26.1.1942 and was made a Reserve 21.2.1946, with final discharge 1954.
Year 1941 - is the year he Attested or enrolled for Military Service

121 LAA - google brings these up -
https://ra39-45.co.uk/units/light-anti-aircraft-regiments/121-leicestershire-regiment-light-anti-aircraft-regiment-rata

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C793770

Name: Alfred Redfern
Death Age: 71
Birth Date: 15 May 1909
Registration Date: Jul 1980
[Aug 1980]
[Sep 1980]
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Sheffield
Inferred County: South Yorkshire
Volume: 3
Page: 1016

confirms dob

bapt

Name: Alfred Redfearn
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 5 Dec 1900
Baptism Place: Crookes, York, England
Father:
John Alfred Redfearn
Mother:
Ada
FHL Film Number: 1938088
Reference ID: item 3 p 31

Alfred
County Yorkshire
Last name Redfern
Country England
Marriage quarter 4
Volume 9C
Marriage year 1931
Volume as transcribed 9C
Registration month -
Page number 1241
MarriageFinder™ Alfred Redfern married one of these people
Sarah A Shaw
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
Spouse's last name Shaw
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
District Sheffield

Hi Greyghost,i am very interest to find out what he did in the forces,and were he went,i know he went to Germany but he never talked about it,i did not know he had been in the forces until he died in 1980 thanks

So, you will have to get his Service records as advised.

The records that I gave a link to, will give you some information about LAA regiments and the TNA one will give a link to WW2 War diaries.

Service records can be quite disappointing.

My father's gives bare details only.
We know he was involved at Tobruk in 1941 (from diaries, etc ) - but his service record doesn't mention that at all.
It only says he was in Libya, with dates of arrival and departure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Searchlight_Regiment,_Royal_Artillery