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Quotation

On this page you will find full details of our service and what it will cost. This is important stuff and we ask you to read it through carefully. Once you place an order, a draft contract is in place between us which is confirmed when we acknowledge it in a subsequent step.

We are sorry but we do not undertake work for men with the following surnames, unless they were commissioned officers or you have already found their service record from on-line sources. Due to the vast numbers of records to go through, it is simply not economic for us to accept engagements on a fixed fee basis. You may need to find a researcher who is willing to do this work and you will probably find that they will work on a "fee per hour" basis. The names affected are:

Brown, Clarke, Davies, Edwards, Evans, Green, Hall, Harris, Hughes, Johnson, Jones, Lewis, Martin, Roberts, Robinson, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Walker, White, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Wright

Fee for this search - a fixed £45 unless

If you have already found their service record - a fixed £20

Copying, postage and packing added to final invoice at cost price
VAT is not added to our invoice

We will conduct a thorough search of the documents held at the National Archives and elsewhere as described on this site and provide you with copies and access to our client portal. If you do not order our special service to interpret and report on the records found (see below), we will attach a covering letter explaining what we have found or not found.

Fee for interpretation and report - a fixed £40
Can only be undertaken with the archival search as described above
VAT is not added to our invoice

We will create a report on the soldier's military career, as described elsewhere on this site.

You should be aware of the risks involved in undertaking such a project:

• Only around 1 in 3 service records have survived for men who were not officers; in the event that the service record can not be found we will do our best to interpret his career from the other information found;
• It is occasionally not possible to identify an individualwith certainty. For example if his service record can not be found and you are unsure of his regiment or number, he may be one of several "possibles". We will do our best to identify him and interpret his story, but there have been cases where all we could do is list the "possibles";
• Military documents do not always provide good family information such as next of kin and birth dates, even if the service record is found;
• Our fees are for undertaking the work, not for the success of the search. We always take a sympathetic view when a man can not be uniquely identified and will often offer a lower fee, after we have reported.

Clients residing or giving an address outside the United Kingdom

We require a small deposit to be paid in advance of us undertaking your project. This deposit will be deducted from your final invoice. Please continue to provide your details and we'll let you know how to do this before you leave the site. This is not necessary for clients in the United Kingdom.

Here are the simple steps to get going:

• Click on the link below to take you to a screen where you provide your name and address and details of the soldier you wish to research;
• We will accept your order and acknowledge it once we have examined the details;
• We get on with it! No payment is required from you until we have done.

We are very happy to offer returning clients a discount on our standard fees.

We are very happy to offer clients who wish to engage us for multiple projects a discount on our standard fees. Please email us with your requirements and we will provide a special quotation.

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