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Posted by Brigadier-General 19 November 2004 - 07:35 PM
NOT CHECKED IF POSTAL ADDRESS IS STILL CORRECT.
There is a slim (and I mean slim!!) chance that your Grandmother's records survive - albeit thinned down over the years, for the purposes of pensions etc.
This is the official advice, with regards to records, from the Woolwich Arsenal Historic Society - a small band of former employees.
This subject is a difficult one to answer, so before emailing us; we must inform you as a website; we do not hold any personnel records ourselves at all. It has been Government policy for years now that when a military establishment closes or members of staff leave for what ever reason, retirement, redundancy etc; all records relating to persons employed during the 20th century are passed to the relevant centre for storage (currently, for civilian employees, to Wales as indicated below), where they are retained for a period of 100 years from the employee's date of birth, before being destroyed. There are however exceptions - for example if the person had an especial record, or was involved in something notable.
Unfortunately, if you are lucky, and they do find something associated with your request, they will only release that information to someone they deem relevant, normally a relation.
Remember, the Royal Arsenal was not the only Ordnance factory, and overall there were many thousands employed, which puts pressure on the number of records that can be stored.
We do have access though, to a limited number of documents that friends of this website have in their own personal collections, and which mention names and departments, and may provide clues; most of such records refer to the 18th and 19th century, so do e-mail us if you want a request added to the list below and we will do our best to search any documents to which we have access, though remember it is extremely unlikely that we will be able to help with anyone employed during the First World War.
You can contact the Historical Society by going to their website at [no longer active]
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You can also try the following:
Mr I. C. Todd
Civilian Records Management for Director (D S D C )
Ministry of Defence
Defence Storage and Distribution Centre
Llangennech
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire
SA14 8YP
Tele 01554 822 352
Fax 01554 822 350
Holder of all ex MOD civilian employees personal files only.
Please note that it is MOD policy to review and then destroy all personal files after 100 years from the date of birth.
I have just started scanning in the Society's glass plates and archives. All of this material was thrown into a skip and then rescued. It is in a sorry state, with nothing catalogued or listed. Every day I come across some gems which will shortly appear on the website listed above.
So please check in often.
This is the official advice, with regards to records, from the Woolwich Arsenal Historic Society - a small band of former employees.
This subject is a difficult one to answer, so before emailing us; we must inform you as a website; we do not hold any personnel records ourselves at all. It has been Government policy for years now that when a military establishment closes or members of staff leave for what ever reason, retirement, redundancy etc; all records relating to persons employed during the 20th century are passed to the relevant centre for storage (currently, for civilian employees, to Wales as indicated below), where they are retained for a period of 100 years from the employee's date of birth, before being destroyed. There are however exceptions - for example if the person had an especial record, or was involved in something notable.
Unfortunately, if you are lucky, and they do find something associated with your request, they will only release that information to someone they deem relevant, normally a relation.
Remember, the Royal Arsenal was not the only Ordnance factory, and overall there were many thousands employed, which puts pressure on the number of records that can be stored.
We do have access though, to a limited number of documents that friends of this website have in their own personal collections, and which mention names and departments, and may provide clues; most of such records refer to the 18th and 19th century, so do e-mail us if you want a request added to the list below and we will do our best to search any documents to which we have access, though remember it is extremely unlikely that we will be able to help with anyone employed during the First World War.
You can contact the Historical Society by going to their website at [no longer active]
*******************************************************************
You can also try the following:
Mr I. C. Todd
Civilian Records Management for Director (D S D C )
Ministry of Defence
Defence Storage and Distribution Centre
Llangennech
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire
SA14 8YP
Tele 01554 822 352
Fax 01554 822 350
Holder of all ex MOD civilian employees personal files only.
Please note that it is MOD policy to review and then destroy all personal files after 100 years from the date of birth.
I have just started scanning in the Society's glass plates and archives. All of this material was thrown into a skip and then rescued. It is in a sorry state, with nothing catalogued or listed. Every day I come across some gems which will shortly appear on the website listed above.
So please check in often.
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