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From: "Bill Dungey" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Army Records
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:09:11 -0000
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Tom

Once again many thanks.

Cheers Bill

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
To: "Bill Dungey" <>; <>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [WW1] Army Records


> Bill - write to the address below and ask for a next-of-kin service record
> application form. Don't bother 'phoning - they cant / wont use the
> telephone. You should get the application form within a few months - fill
it
> in and return it with the fees, and hopefully you will have a reply before
> the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WW1. How accurate a transcript
it
> is, and how much they will have "censored" from any surviving records is
> another thing altogether. (ANYONE who has ever paid for an MoD transcript
of
> a WW1 record, ESPECIALLY for an officer, should seriously consider making
a
> search of the records now at PRO - the pre record release reports made by
> MoD often missed out a huge amount of the information actually on file).
>
> Ministry Of Defence,
> CS (RM) 2b,
> Bourne Avenue,
> Hayes,
> Middlesex,
> UB3 1RF.
>
> regards
> --
> Tom Tulloch-Marshall
> Great War Military Research
>
> http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch
>
>
>

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