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Relative in the RAF

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*stinkermurdock*

*stinkermurdock* Report 29 Sep 2007 14:03

Hi

I have a relavative who served in the royal airforce, and I just wondered whether these types of records were online at the national archives. I have looked but so far have only found records for army and navy.
Any Ideas where I should look next?

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 29 Sep 2007 14:08

Personnel Records
Royal Air Force personnel records are held at RAF Innsworth. If service number and details are known, please quote it in correspondence. Innsworth will only divulge information to the person to whom it refers or, if he or she has died, to his or her immediate next of kin. Anyone else must obtain written permission from the person about whom they are enquiring, or from his or her next of kin, before any information will be given to them.

Innsworth make a charge of £30.00 for any information they provide; cheques made payable to 'MOD Funds'. The only people exempt from charge are the person to whom the records refer or their widow or widower.

The address is:

PMA IM1b (RAF)
Room 5
Building 248A
Personnel Management Agency
Innsworth
Gloucester GL3 1EZ

For records of decorations and citations:
PMA IM1c (RAF)
Room 6
Building 248A
Personnel Management Agency
Innsworth
Gloucester GL3 1EZ

For medal claims:
MOD Medal Office
SPVA
RAF Innsworth
Gloucester
GL3 1HW

Records for precursors of the RAF (the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service) are held at the National Archives, as are RAF records for service during the First World War.

from http://www.raf.mod.uk/links/contacts.cfm

Roy

*stinkermurdock*

*stinkermurdock* Report 29 Sep 2007 14:10

Thanks Roy for your help, I will look into it, hopefully it might bear fruit. lol

Tracie