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The first tranche of military service records are now available to order from The National Archives (TNA)<\/a> after being transferred from the Ministry of Defence (MOD)<\/a>.<\/p>\n All British military service records after 1920 were previously held by the MOD in Glasgow. Records of deceased servicemen and women can be ordered by their next of kin for a \u00a330 fee.<\/p>\n Since the covid-19 pandemic, record orders have been subject to delays<\/a> of up to a year.<\/p>\n TNA today confirmed that the first tranche of the records is now available on its website.<\/p>\n The records are those in series WO 420 and relate to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers regiment.<\/p>\n The records released today are of service personnel born more than 115 years ago.<\/p>\n The rest of the records in the series will be released over the next few days, but additional restrictions may apply to protect individuals\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n You can now access the records by searching for \u2018WO 420\u2019 in Discovery<\/a>, TNA\u2019s online catalogue, and browsing the record listings, which include each man\u2019s name, date of birth and service number.<\/p>\n The records are not available online.<\/p>\n To access a record, you must click \u2018Details\u2019 by the man\u2019s name and follow the instructions to order a record to view at TNA\u2019s buildings in London.<\/p>\n The record will take four working days to prepare.<\/p>\n In February 2021, the MOD began the process of transferring all 9.7 million historic service personnel records, which will take six years.<\/p>\n The records include around 500,000 individuals with First World War<\/a> service and the vast majority of those who served in the Second World War<\/a>, as well as those who did National Service.<\/p>\n TNA also said that the military service records would eventually be digitised and it was \u201ccurrently undertaking a procurement exercise to appoint a digitisation partner\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Rosemary Collins is the staff writer of<\/em> Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Rosemary Collins Published: Tuesday, 05 April 2022 at 12:00 am The first tranche of military service records are now available to order from The National Archives (TNA) after being transferred from the Ministry of Defence (MOD). All British military service records after 1920 were previously held by the MOD in Glasgow. Records of deceased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1,16],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Rosemary Collins Published: Tuesday, 05 April 2022 at 12:00 am The first tranche of military service records are now available to order from The National Archives (TNA) after being transferred from the Ministry of Defence (MOD). All British military service records after 1920 were previously held by the MOD in Glasgow. Records of deceased…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/15192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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