![]() IBCC wishes to thank the staff at the MOD Records Office and National Archives for their engagement and assistance in making this facility available to our website users.There is a woman with her hand on her chin. The process takes around 24 days to complete and can be expensive. There is an £8.40 charge for National Archives staff to access the file and give you a quotation for the copying service. Click on the AIR81 reference on the IBCC website and then click Request a Copy. When you view the files, you are permitted to take photographs of each page, should you wish.Īlternatively, if you wish to order a copy by post, please be aware that there is a charge for this service based on the number of pages in the file. When you visit Kew, you must quote the Reader’s Ticket number and take along two forms of ID- one bearing your signature and one bearing your address. National Archives will have the file ready for you when you arrive, saving you time. Enter your Reader’s Ticket number and state the date on which you intend to visit. Then click on the AIR81 reference on the IBCC website and click Order in Advance. This can be done online by following this link. To attend in person, the attendee should first create a Reader’s Ticket. ![]() There are two means for accessing AIR81 files- to attend in person or to order a copy by post. Family members wishing to read the AIR81 files relating to their ancestors are advised to exercise caution and be guided by National Archives warnings where appropriate. There is currently no plan to digitise AIR81 files, partly because they are fragile and partly because the information they contain can at times be sensitive, even harrowing, since they may contain exhumation reports and even photographs of corpses. When you click on it, the relevant page will open in a new tab on your browser. The AIR81 reference on the IBCC website is a link to the file on the National Archives website. Both are searchable on the National Archives website under ‘Search the catalogue’ and both are included on the IBCC website. ![]() Once CPs arrive at National Archives they are assigned a unique AIR81 number, so each CP has both a P-number and an AIR81 number. ![]() They are being made available in increasing date order. This process requires some rework to the files which is very time consuming, so the process of making them all available to National Archives will take several years. The CPs are in the process of being made available to the general public as they are passed from the MOD Records Office, Portsmouth to National Archives, Kew. Each begins with the letter ‘P’ and is followed by six digits, then an oblique (forward slash) and the finally the year in which the incident took place- for example P396154/42. Deaths due to natural causes in service or accidents that did not involve RAF vehicles did not generally give rise to a CP.ĬPs were originally given a unique reference number by the RAF. This includes operational flying losses, enemy action due to air raids, road accidents either on station or even off-station if they involved RAF vehicles. This document describes what Casualty Packs are, when they were created, the process of making them available to the public and then goes on to describe the process by which you can view the contents of the packs.Ĭasualty Packs (CPs) were created by the RAF whenever there was serious injury or loss of life associated with operational activity within the RAF. This project is the result of on-going collaboration between IBCC, the MOD Records Office and National Archives, Kew. IBCC is delighted to introduce a unique facility to link the Losses Database to the relevant RAF Casualty Pack on the National Archives website.
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