{"id":79206,"date":"2017-02-23T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=00feefaedde8dd8ce50dbfb4b847f9ea"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:39:00","slug":"news-story-mod-to-attend-who-do-you-think-you-are-live-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79206","title":{"rendered":"News story: MOD to attend Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Experts from <abbr title=\"Defence Business Services\">DBS<\/abbr> within the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> are to attend the Who Do You Think You Are? Live event at the NEC, Birmingham, between the 6 and 8 April. The show, a spin off from the popular BBC1 TV series, \u201cWho Do You Think You Are?\u201d, attracts over 12,000 visitors during the 3 days as it focuses on genealogy.  The stand, supported by TNT UK Ltd, will be staffed by a <abbr title=\"Defence Business Services\">DBS<\/abbr> team from the Medals and Records Offices and will offer the following.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"displays-of-medals-and-service-records\">Displays of medals and service records<\/h3>\n<p>Medals and records advice, including identification of medals, entitlements, applying for medals and how to find out more, what records the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> holds and how to access them.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"live-post-1921-service-record-search-facility\">Live post 1921 service record search facility.<\/h3>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> continues to hold all service records where the individual had a discharge date of post 1921, these total around 10 million records, with about 500,000 having seen service in World War 1.  Using a sophisticated database that supports the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>\u2019s main archive, an assisted search facility will in many cases enable confirmation of whether or not the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> holds a record for an individual.  This information can then be used to apply for the record using the forms on gov.uk. To assist the search some or all of the following information is required: surname, initials, date of birth and service number.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"interpretation-of-service-records\">Interpretation of service records<\/h3>\n<p>If you already have a service record, but are unsure what it says or how to interpret it, then <abbr title=\"Defence Business Services\">DBS<\/abbr> experts will be on hand to assist you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Reynolds from the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>\u2019s record office; a keen army historian and serving reserves officer, John has conducted battlefield tours across the world<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Hadaway from the air historical branch; Stuart has previously worked at the <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Museum, Hendon, and is the author of military books, including \u201cMissing believed killed: casualty policy and the missing research and enquiry service 1939 \u2013 1952\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sue Pass and Clive Clarke from TNT\u2019s navy search service; Sue and Clive have a combined 17 years of experience working in the TNT\u2019s navy search service, responding to more than 6000 enquiries a year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"issue-of-veterans-badges\">Issue of Veterans Badges<\/h3>\n<p>If you are ex-forces and haven\u2019t yet got a Veterans Badge, then you can ask for one on the stand.  Following confirmation of a service record identification and a check of the Veterans Badge database, the Veterans Badge will be issued. The following information will be required, surname, initials, date of birth and service number.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Defence Business Services\">DBS<\/abbr> team look forward to seeing you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts from Defence Business Services (DBS) within the MOD are to attend the Who Do You Think You Are Live event at the NEC, Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79236,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79206\/revisions\/79236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}