The
Royal Sussex Living History Group
If your enquiry is specifically related to
the work of The Royal Sussex Living
History Group,
or the
(soldiers with the prefix SD to their
service number),
the survivors and those who died,
we can be contacted by
Telephone:
07977 511134
E-mail:
We regret, for the present, we are unable to respond
to other requests for information on individual soldiers.
The
following sources may be of assistance:
The
National Archive - holds records of
soldiers medal index cards, battalion war diaries etc.
-
The
National Archive research guides can be found at:
British
Armed Services: campaign medals, and other service medals
British
army soldiers' papers: First World War, 1914-1918
British
Army: useful sources for tracing soldiers
The Commonwealth Wargraves Commission – Free search for soldiers
who died in both world wars.
Military Genealogy.com -
pay per view of Soldiers Died in the Great War and other databases.
WSCC Record Offices -
holds
the Royal Sussex Regimental Archive.
Veterans
UK - for access to records of military
personnel still living.
WWII Army Records - Every person who served in the armed forces during
WW2 has a service record, which contains details of that person's wartime
activity.
We have no access to those records, they are still held by the MOD, and
are normally closed under the 75-year confidentiality rules,
they can be requested by the person they relate to, or their next of kin only.
Please note that they require you to provide them
with your postal address, and that due to lack of staff, and the increased
interest in family history, there are very long delays in responding to the
public.
There is a
search fee of £25.
Contact:
Historical Disclosures
Mailpoint 400
Kentigern House
65
Tel: 0845 600 9663
Fax: 0141 224 2144
We apologise for not linking directly to e-mail.
You will need to key our e-mail address manually when sending us
mail.
We have been forced to do this to prevent trawlers picking up our
e-mail address,
and sending us an average of forty spam
items per day.