It was a strange experience, reading the archives that day in the Museum, the Bn. HQ entries were like blogs or posts of the period ( the Bn. was the one of the time of Alan P's mention, just off to deal with Cyprus and 2 days before they left England I had to be dragged away from travelling with them as a regular volunteer, by my family) and were written by my brilliant boss, the ORQMS prisoner of the Japanese for many WW11 years, who had promoted me and supported me at my work at all times; the notes were celebratory and jolly - but what a shock; no mention of me or my Nat. Service workmates. Somehow we had been written out.
Of course, individually, every move every soldier made, military or civil, was recorded daily and despatched to Infantry Records, in our case, by myself.
Promotions, demotions, marriages, injuries, illness, exams, education, awards, court martials, AWOL, police notifications, punishments, even " conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline Sec. 40".... all the minor charges dealt with by the Commanding Officer.
So I assume records of our involvement still exist somwhere in detail - they certainly were on my watch.
BTW - we were not pen-pushers, the Bn. were all soldiers, perimeter guards etc. under fire, water station guards, major and minor parades, battle schemes, just like the rifle companies ; even for the Bn. Pipe Band; the only exceptions were the Military Band, who were not officially on our strength, but marked as 'attached'.