Desert Rat 8th division

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Member Since: September 2020 Posts: 1 Send Message	Laura	Report	1 Sep 2020 09:17
Member Since: September 2020 Posts: 1 Send Message	Hi, I would like help getting information on my grandfather Frederick Ley who is from plymouth UK and was a desert rat, very new to this obviously. Where can i go to find these types of records? Thanks
Member Since: November 2005 Posts: 2,399 Send Message	ElizabethK	Report	1 Sep 2020 10:01
	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/request-records-of-deceased-service-personnel I have "nudged" up ErikaH's post for you to see.
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 63,499 Send Message	ErikaH	Report	1 Sep 2020 11:21
	Not military info.....but is this him in 1939? 16 St Jude's Road, Plymouth, Plymouth C.B., Devon, England Frederick M Ley 29 Sep 1884 Male Bookbinder Married 106 1 Alice L S Ley 29 Mar 1894 Female Unpaid Domestic Duti Married 106 2 Frederick W Ley 15 Oct 1915 Male Bookbinder Single 106 3 The record for this person is officially closed. Clarence R Ley 19 Jul 1922 Male Plasterer Single 106 5