Does anybody know what happens when voting by proxy for someone.

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I’m apparantly doing it for my son who is abroad.

You tell them you are proxy voting for your son. They give you the slip. You hide. You vote. Hand it back.

Don't forget to vote yourself.

I am proxy voting for my son and daughter, it's their first times.

Yes. He will need to have registered you as his proxy. Take your ID (not his!) to the polling station (the one he has been assigned to vote at) and say you are there as his proxy and give his address. They will check their copy of the electoral role to make sure his vote hasn't already been used and that he has nominated a proxy. They'll then check your name against their list of proxy voters. If everything checks out, they'll issue you with a ballot paper and you just vote as normal (presumably your son will tell you who he wants to vote for).

The staff at the polling station will have a list of proxy voters. Just give them your name and address and tell them you are doing a proxy vote and they will give you the ballot paper. Don’t forget your photo id!

I've done it once.

I told the polling station staff I was the person's proxy and they checked names on a sheet of paper, then gave me two ballot papers (mine, and the one for the person a proxy for).