Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Engelandvaarders are those people who were able to leave The Netherlands and arrive in England.
Volunteers have read the formal interviews taken after their arrival in England and put the routes they took on maps.

I should be able to find my father there.
Problem is that the entrance to the files is not very well keyworded.









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by **Syl March 26, 2024 No comments | in
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Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Requested the records at the MOD (Ministery of Defense)...again!
Did that a couple of years ago. Got no reply at all.

Now the process is a lot simpeler, I submitted a request again.

Might take ages!

by **Syl March 20, 2024 No comments | in
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Monday, 18 March 2024

Got a reply from the British National Archives.
His records haven't been transferred yet.

So I have to direct my request to the MOD.

Glad they looked things up so fast and replied within days, instead of months.

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Friday, 15 March 2024

Submitted a request at the National Archives.
Before the form was submitted they wrote that the waitingtime would be 2 weeks, after it was submitted: 9 months.

That was like a slap in the face.

Well, we'll see what happens.

They will first have a look if there is something to be found.
They will report this.
Then they'll inform me about the costs of someone getting the records.

We'll see.


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Thursday, 14 December 2023

Son 2 arranged to get Dad's death certificate.
We filled in the request form for Dad's records.
As we couldn't send the needed money, because the MOD requested to send it through a payment system we don't have, and none answered my mails, it was carefully enclosed with the request.

We checked the address several times and sent it.

Then the wait started.

It was well before the pandemic hit us, undermined a lot of societal functions, and made us want everybody to be well and happy again.

But we now have Dad's death certificate.

But the records????



We don't have them.





                                                             



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Sunday, 15 January 2023

 



To become a member of the Victory Services Club I needed proof that dad served in the RAF.
Just that.
It's not important what he did.

As everything of him was destroyed I had no proof.

I told Sarah what I needed and she had a look through the archives which were not digitalised yet.

And came up with this.

And then it turend out the rules for membership had changed....





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Friday, 8 July 2022

 Found some old photos.


    


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