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Re: Really Really need your help with this one guys {please}!
Posted by Paul McMillan on Fri Dec 07, 2001 06:27:39 AM
In reply top Really Really need your help with this one guys {please}! posted by Lee Walsh on Fri Dec 07, 2001 12:54:46 AM
Lee
I understood the RAF would only release a pilots records from a request by a relative.. So it is a chicken
and egg..
I think you need to go through the peoplefinder option.. Or if you knew where they were born you could
request a copy of the birth certificate from Kew. From that you should be able to trace marriage/birth records
etc of the parents.. Then do a request through local parish records.. It can be done, but better if you paid a
professionaly. And a lot of what I have told you is me remembering stuff I have read about in various magazines,
newspapers etc and may not be 100% accurate!
There is general information here about tracing military personnel (example is for army, but the MOD, Medals, pension stuff would
also work with RAF)
http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/faq/index.htm
Also Air Historical Branch
http://www.mod.uk/index.php3?page=125
Though if the pilot had a widow, who collected a widows pension and was still alive they would have an
address. Big if...