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From: "steve.head" <>
Subject: Army Records: Guidance required
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 21:25:47 +0100


Question relating to Soldiers Records.

My Great Uncle joined the Army about 1897 as a drummer boy ( joined the Royal Sussex regiment) survived the carnage of WWI and eventually retired in about 1930 on a pension (?). My problem is getting hold of his service record which I believe is stored at the MOD Defence Records 2b Hayes. I have sketchy information at best and therefore have no army number to quote to enable the centre to carry out a search.

So my question is does anyone know when the records stored at Hayes for the period covering the 1930's will be transferred to the PRO if at all.

Sorry if this question seems stupid I'm very new to family history research.

Thanks in advance

Steve Head





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