That means I would have to do a round trip of 40 miles to get one, all the banks have closed in my town
I think yours shut in the same sweep of Welsh closures as my mother's - she doesn't have a card either, so getting her to a bank to draw out money from within is really difficult now. A far cry from Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson's era.
I have a card. Can get cash back at the local shops. Also 3 shops have cash machines that are free to use. We can also use the post office to put in or take money out of our accounts. Of course we can only do this when the shops are open We have no hole in the wall in the street, that went with the last bank
When ordering Army, Navy, RAF or National Service records it says a cheque for £30 must be sent. But.... the information on the GOV.UK site says You can pay by cheque or postal order - or by banker’s draft or international money order if you’re overseas. As the application for records for Army, Navy, RAF, National Service and Home Guard should all be sent to the same address in Glasgow then one assumes the Home Guard will also accept the same payment methods.
Well, the papers arrived today - just a month after sending for them. Only 3 sheets of paper, but they did give his date of birth - a couple of years different to what we had been led to believe - plus a note that he had served in the Connaught Rangers from 1914 to 1919. This now gives me another avenue to pursue. There was also enclosed a 15 page document (A4 size) of Army abbreviations in order to help me understand what has been written.
Don't you love it when the explanation is much longer than the record itself? Of course you will keep it handy to enlighten the rest of us as needed.
I have the army abbreviations (sent with my dad's WWII records) - actually very useful to refer back to. Hmm. I wonder if, in the absence of any other records, my grandad's home guard might say when he left the army after the first world war?
Mine just says that he was in the Connaught Rangers from 1914 to 1919 - no specific dates, though....
I haven't received my Dad's records yet, had an email today from Army Personnel Office, 'Thank you for your recent application accompanied by your payment, completed Certificate of Kinship and Search Document. Due to the very high volume of family interest enquiries we receive it can take longer than we would like to complete these tasks, however we aim to have copies issued to you as quickly as possible. Please accept my apologies for the delay and we will write to you in due course.' Well it's not a no, is it?
Look what I found in a bundle of old letters yesterday. Grandad's certificate from the Home Guard. It was quite crumpled and battered, but I've smoothed it out.
