Family war records

LegacyUser

Hello all, a friend of mine is trying to find information on her grandfathers service during WW2. I am hoping someone here might be able to help, I will include the info we have.

John Alfred Smith 05/08/1914 - 16/09/2003

Nationality - British

Served in British Army WW2

Army Number 1679242 Royal Artillery Rank Bombardier

Discharged 24 Nov 1952

British passport dated 27 August 1946 issued in Paris - passport no C297092

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Jordan

Adrian Bruce1

See https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records

 

The UK's MoD (Ministry of Defence) are the only source of the full service records. Full details of how to apply are on that link but:

• You must supply a death certificate;
• The next of kin must supply permission to see the full data, because without that permission, for a certain number of years after the death, you will not get the full information. The interesting stuff (!) is omitted without that permission.
• It takes some months to find and supply the data normally. In the current climate???

LegacyUser

Cheers Adrian yes she has submitted a request months ago but they keep advising on a lengthy wait time so we were hoping to find info on our own steam if its possible