Quote Originally Posted by can14 View Post
I tried the same thing to get information in UK. My Grandfather served in Ww1 and Ww2 in the Royal Navy, then
Merchant marine. OBE DSC etc Ww1, sunk a submarine etc. Never got any information.
If a former serviceman served in U.K. armed forces after 1939 you currently need to approach the MOD to access their service records but I don't believe that they have to give anyone access to the records. This may change in time if the records are released to public records. On a number of occasions, I have tried to find the service records of former Britishicon servicemen who served in both WW1 and WW2 but have never been successful. I concluded that the WW1 records were most likely held with the WW2 records by the MOD but I have not pursued the matter by contacting the MOD to ask. I, of course, don't know this for sure but it has been true in all the case which I have looked at.