Can't believe that password. Not pomposity on my part but allocated by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
I'm 58 and had to leave work two years ago due to ill health.
My family split in the early sixties and most of my family history is all hearsay and folklore.
I'd like to be able to relate something a bit more factual to my sons and the first place I thought I'd start is with my Fathers Army Record and War experiences.
I have literaly nothing to go on other than the regiment he was in and that he was a Prisoner of War.
War Record Archives ( now moved to Glasgow ) should, in my humble opinion, be located in the MI6 building in London or here in GCHQ in Cheltenham because they seem to give nothing out.
What is the secret?
I've never met so much bureacracy in my life.
The Prisoner of War records book which everyone seems to refer to is apparently out of print and my Library cannot locate a copy.
Details I have were.
Edward (Ned) Hart
Joined the Seaforth Highlanders in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in approx 1929.
Marriage Certificate dated 1930 gives residence as Dover Castle and rank as lance jack.
Definitely seen service in Palestine in the thirties.
Left prior to war but was on immediate reserve in September 1939 and was recalled to Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow.
Believe was a member of 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders and captured at St Valery-en-Caux on 12th June 1940.
POW for rest of War but no details of where.
Must have been Poland somewhere.
Reputed to have escaped when on "Great March" and was hidden by a Polish Farmer in return for working on the land.
"Repatriated" by the Russians.
De-mobbed at Dover Castle on return approximately two months after end of war.
No further details other than I believe , despite being a Miner in civvy street he may have been a cook in the army.
Anyone who can give me any information on the logistics of 2nd Battalion Seaforths etc I would be very grateful.