82nd West African Division, Burma

My father David Driscoll was with the 82nd West African Division in Burma at the end of the War. He was in the Royal Signals, and took a unit from Sierra Leone to fight the Japanese. Has anybody any good ideas on how I can find out where he was, and what he was doing during his service there? I don't know where one would find the records for the 82nd WAD.

 

Try on WW2 Talk which is focused on the British and Commonwealth forces.

Try here http://ww2talk.com/forums/forum/13-searching-for-someone-military-genealogy/
or here http://ww2talk.com/forums/forum/53-burma-india/


Do you have his service record? You can apply for this from the UK Veterans Agency. It costs £30 and takes a couples of months.

The records of the 82nd West African Division are held in the National Archives in Kew. Here is a link to the war diaries of each headquarters and unit within the 82nd Division. This points as the G branch of Divisional HQ but you can browse when you know what unit her served with. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C950983

Either visit in person or pay someone like me to visit for you.