J E Farmer, City of London Yeomanry and Machine gun Corps. He volunteered Aug. 1914 and survived the war, he received 2 medals, How do I find out where he served?
2007-01-18 18:23:02 · 5 answers · asked by MICHAEL B 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Most people have no luck at all with World War One records as the answerer above has suggested. Unofrtunately, his figures are the wrong way round - about two-thirds were destroyed in the fire, and barely a third survives - so your chances are even worse than you think, but yes, you do need to be at either the National Archives in Kew, or your local Mormon Family History Centre, as they can arrange for copies to be viewed on microfilm.
The series you are after are labelled WO/363 and WO/364. Both are arranged alphabetically by surname, so if your man is there, he will be very easy to find. Check the main series WO/363 first. The second series WO/364 was reconstructed sometime after the fire mainly from pension records. Seeing as your man survived and MAY have had a pension, you may strike lucky here instead.
The best way online is to download your mans medal card from the National Archives website. They cost £3.50 a go, and although the inofrmation is brief, they do usually include the date he enterded into battle and where. In practice this is either the campaign on the Western front (France) or Gallipolli in Turkey. It's not usually possible to get any more specific than that, otherwise you'd need to go back to Kew and sift through the Regimental War Diaries for the units and corps in question to see where they were and what they were doing when.
2007-01-20 20:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mental Mickey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Records Office at Kew.
Bear in mind that these records were bombed in World War II. About a third were burnt, but it follows the two thirds survived.
You can send away to the Ministry of Defence for copies but it will cost. Go to your local Family History Society search room, they will help you out. Go to the GENUKI site for a list of these.
2007-01-19 04:56:18 · answer #2 · answered by efes_haze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you live in London, they keep very good records of such things. Online and from a distance it will be much harder of course.
Go to the London directory and look up the historical society. Better yet, I'd start at Westminster Abbey and ask one of the proprietors.
2007-01-18 20:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by wolf560 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Records Office at Kew hold extensive records of military records
2007-01-18 22:09:42 · answer #4 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time Machine??
2007-01-18 18:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by Fuliche 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋