A good friend of mine is trying to find info on a relative who served in WW2. Apparently she has a name, number and unit but doesnt know where to look. I aint got a clue, so if anyone has got any advice I can pass on it'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tiny.
My Two Cents.....
Tiny
"I'll show you 'ow the English knock the top off a egg"
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thanks mate. i've forwarded the link to her. 
My Two Cents.....
Tiny
"I'll show you 'ow the English knock the top off a egg"
Weapons:-
MP40
Dboys K98
MG42
Thompson
plus loads of other modern day crap
dont forget the MOD records at glasgo. but I think you need next of kin permission if they are dead.
she has the unit she could always try and trace them online, many have websites or at least pages on the web, never know they could still have old piccies of her relative 
After 1920/1922 the records will still be held by the MOD, have a look here 
http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html
I am currently on the same mission.
Unfortunately, it gets complicated when said relative is German, and you dont have a unit name or number.
Got to get someone to decipher his old 'soldbuch' because the typically germanic handwriting is quite illegible.
Dunno if this link is any use to you Chef? http://www.soldbuchweb.com/page2.htm
getting some1 to decipher it is easier 
the printed stuff is a doddle once you work out the letters, I've got a little 1930s learn german book 
and in it, are the handwritten versions of what the letters should approximately work like. Its possible but it takes forever and you have to take a wild stab in the dark and then see if it makes sense in context.
Far easier to get someone to help you
For Brit soldiers you want the Historical Disclosures dept of the MOD in Glasgow. The address is
Army Personnel Centre
HQ Secretariat
Historical Disclosures
Mail Point 400
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow
G2 8EX
Tel: 0845 600 9663, option 1, then option 3
http://www.army.mod.uk/contacts/divisions/records.htm
What they don't tell you is that it can take over a year (once you've filled in and returned the forms) to get a soldiers service record back and that it's an <ahem> discretionary service - if your chap as naughty or anything to do with Special Forces you could just get two years of embarrassed silence... At east you do of your relly smacked an officer than hopped it to the SAS.
