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Looking for some advices re UK Service person Records.. In Oz, for those that have been digitized, we have free online access to complete service records, from the Australian National archives, based on a simple name or service number search.
Does a similar facility exist in the UK.. I seem to only find Pay searches
My current research is on a distant cousin, Corporal Donald D Huish, Service No. 5669044 Royal Armoured Corps, 10th Armd Division, remembered at the Fayid War Cemetery, Al Isma'iliyah, Egypt
Appreciate any advices

Well WW2 service records aren't online

They are available to nok only though and have to be bought

Have read they are quite costly and take several months to arrive from ordering

This looks like him on the CWGC site

Corporal
HUISH, DONALD

Service Number 5669044

Died 20/10/1943

Aged 31

H.Q. Sqdn. 10th Armd. Div.
Royal Armoured Corps

Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Huish, of Chard, Somerset.


INSCRIPTION

IN LOVING MEMORY. OUR DEAR BROTHER WHO DIED FOR FREEDOM. SADLY MISSED. JACK AND KATH.


HUISH
Corporal
5669044
DONALD
Wednesday, October 20, 1943
Age 31
FAYID WAR CEMETERY
1. G. 12.
VIEW RECORD
Royal Armoured Corps
United Kingdom

His father was in ww1

Donald Huish
in the British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
View British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920

Name: Donald Huish
Birth Date: 25 Oct 1912
Birth Place: Chard
Age: 2
Document Year: 1914
Relationship to Soldier: Child
Form Title: Military History Sheet
Number of Images: 5
Other Records:
Family Members:
Name Relation to Soldier
Francis Herbert Huish Self (Head)
Minnie Blanche Saunders Spouse
Queenie Blanche Huish Child
Francis F Claude Huish Child
Leslie Huish Child
Olive Beatrice Huish Child
Elsie May Huish Child
Donald Huish Child
Sheila Elizabeth Huish Child

He wasn't reg as Donald D

Donald Huish
Mother's Maiden Name: Saunders
Registration Year: 1912
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Chard
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 577


This is a mistrancription

Corporal Donald D Huish
Death Date: 20 Oct 1943
Cemetery: Fayid War Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: AL Isma'iliyah, Egypt
Has Bio?: N
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

Sadly both parents died before him

Francis H Huish
Death Age: 58
Birth Date: abt 1882
Registration Date: Mar 1940
Registration district: Chard
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 1164


Minnie B Huish
Death Age: 59
Birth Date: abt 1880
Registration Date: Dec 1939
Registration district: Chard
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 961

1939 register

Francis H Huish
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
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Name: Francis H Huish
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 8 Sep 1881
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 24
Residence Place: Chard, Somerset, England
Occupation: Lace Hand
Schedule Number: 280
Sub Schedule Number: 1
Enumeration District: WOCD
Registration district: 308/1
Inferred Spouse: Minnie B Huish
Inferred Children: Mathleen P Huish
Hubert Huish
Household Members:
Name
Francis H Huish
Minnie B Huish
Kathleen P Huish born 1918 occ net mender
Hubert Huish born 1923 occ threader ( factory)

Many Thanks.. yes, starting to build up a reasonable amount of military records for his siblings, Father etc from Pension records, including a surprize.. a St Helier, Jersey, connection that may relate to an earlier phase of his Grand parents family..
Many Thanks for those details you advised.

This is the link for obtaining UK service records post 1922
http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html

Each set of records would cost £30. The link would tell you if you needed to send a GBP cheque or if there is the facility to pay by card (not sure if there is)

Payment by card not possible. And the application form can't be filled in online - it has to be printed off, filled in, and posted.

"You can pay by cheque or postal order - or by banker’s draft or international money order if you’re overseas."

https://tinyurl.com/gph5frz

Thanks all, Your advices greatly appreciated and managed to gather up enough detail to fill in a few gaps in the story of this part of my Tree. Appreciated.