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:
First
World War Medal Index Cards
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
How do I obtain service
records?
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.
Contact : West
Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1RN
Tel: 01243 753602
Fax: 01243
533959
Email: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk
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.
You will need to fill in a form
before they will begin research.
Where the request relates to a
casualty, they will only give copies of records to the immediate family of the
casualty, or with permission from the immediate family.
There is
a search fee (£25 at the time of writing).
Contact:
Historical Disclosures
Mailpoint 400
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow G2 8EX
Tel: 0845 600 9663
Fax: 0141 224 2144
E-mail: disc4@apc.army.mod.uk
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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.