Could someone advise a novice like me. Can I find information without a service number? I would like to find out about my uncle John Milligan born in Kilmarnock 23 Dec 1925. He was a radar operator with R.N.V.R. from Dec 1942 to June 1946. I do not know his service number or the ship he was on – so have I got any chance of finding out about his service? How do I start? The name is fairly common and so appears too often on Ancestry, etc. I know that at least by the end of the war, he was in the Pacific / New Guinea. The story is: at the end of the war, his ship was the first into Tokyo harbour, and it captured the Japanese “flag ship”. My uncle souvenired the silvery cutlery from that Japanese ship, and we still use in the family every meal time. He liked New Guinea so much he immigrated there after the war, and died in Rabaul not long after, in 1956. All advice gratefully received, Neale
Have you tried the MOD? Check this thread. http://www.ww2f.com/topic/26956-requesting-uk-service-records/
