Second World War Death Records

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Hoping someone can help. I'm a member of Ancestry.co.uk but they only seem to have records for WWI.

I strongly suspect that one of my relatives died in the second world war - can't find any other death certificate in the UK records, know he died around 1939ish at a young age.

How do I find some sort of record? Am not even quite sure where to begin.

Happy for any advice/pointers.

You could try the Debt of Honour Register online as a first port of call -- covers military and civilian casualties. It only has basic information, but will give you at least a regiment, rank, age, date of death and a place of burial. You may need to check several records to find the right one (hint: the "Additional Information" field often contains names of parents or other next of kin).

Fab, thanks Port

Hmm...he's not listed. Damn, back to the drawing board.

There is a cd that the national archives have produced - it was 80 volumes and they have put it on cd and as a database for you to search, so much easier to use that a trip to Kew and wade through 80 volumes.

this tells you all about the records

Telephone your nearest county archive and enquire whether they have a copy of the cd - soldiers that died in the first and second world war.

Try the commonwelth war graves site aswell.

War records are not always complete though due to - wars and bombing