Over the last
number of months I have received a lot of requests from visitors to
the site inquiring about service records of family members who at
some stage my have served in the Irish Army or indeed going back to
pre 1922 in the British Army.
For obvious
reasons I don’t have access to that sort of information, but I will
supply the following links for families who keen to track down the
service records of family members.
Before starting
out on your research try and find as much information about your
family member before contacting the relative archives. It will make
your job explaining a lot easier and archivist job of finding any
records a lot quicker.
Although the
following may seem obvious and some of the information you may not
know. Any time spent here will pay dividends in the end of your
research.
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Christian Names and Surname |
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Date of Birth |
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Address or even County at time of enlistment. |
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Army Service Number (This
is the Key to all searches) |
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Unit’s Served (3rd
Battalion, 4th Motor Squadron) |
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Corps served in. (Engineers,
Cavalry, Military Police, Infantry, Air Corps)
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Overseas Service (UN
Missions - Congo, Lebanon, Cyprus) |
Armed with any
of the above information then contact the following:
And good luck!
Irish Military Archives
Postal
Address:
Officer In Charge
Military Archives
Cathal Brugha Bks
Rathmines
Dublin 6
Ireland
Telephone:
+ 00 353 1 8046457
Web Link:
Irish
Military Archives
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British Military Archives
Postal
Address:
The National Archives
Kew,
Richmond,
Surrey,
TW9 4DU
Telephone:
+44 (0) 20 8876 3444
Web Link:
The
National Archives (Military)
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