Details of service in WAAF - GM Lowies

[the_pedagogue]

Looking for details of Grace Margaret Lowies - Leading Aircraftwoman. Have Service number and discharge book with information but cannot obtain any reference to her whatsoever. Can anyone enlighten me on theis matter?

[gortonboy]

hi,,,service records after 1920 are held by the ministry of defence....you will find nothing online. Please see https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records

[StintonLomas]

Just out of interest, have you managed to find her, before service, in the 1939 register?

[the_pedagogue]

Hadn't considered that. She joined up in 1942 I believe so would not be on a register in 1939 relating to the Military. Would it matter that she spent a lot of time in India and Ceylon when trying to find her records?

[Lesley Robertson]

The 1939 register was a detailed survey of the population of England and Wales. It's not a military register. The national Archives have licensed it to Find My Past, a pay to use site.
See HERE

If she lived in India as a civilian, Fibis may help, see HERE

[the_pedagogue]

Thanks for this information. I'm already subscribing to Ancestry and paid for a month on this site so I'll have to think about another subscription. She was never a civilian in India, always working in the WAAF for a Wing Commander in Delhi and Ceylon among other places. I suspect that this source would not hold anything valuable.