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Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 23 Send Message	Si	Report	11 Nov 2010 09:58
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 23 Send Message	Hi all, Hope your all well, sorry to post another plea for help! Is there any way to find a service record for my grandad? I can find nothing on ancestry or genes, although thats not to say im looking in the right place. I believe he was in the royal engineers. Francis Roy Cudlipp B- 03/05/1916 M- Betty E Mudge 1947 D- sept 1995 Really hope someone can help! Si
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 3,379 Send Message	George_of_Westbury	Report	11 Nov 2010 13:47
	Here is the link to the Veterans Agency to whom application for WW2 service records must be made, as CarolB stated only available to the person themselves or NOK which has to be proven, and involves a cost of £30-00 but free if its the actual person, also can take up-to 9 months to receive them. The 75 year closure on these records has always been the case The link explains all http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/army.html George
	Researching: My avatar is that of my Dad and shipmates, taken onboard HMS Blanche in 1938, place unknown From left to right, my Dad,Sidney Mellor and Sidney Bateman.