Is it ok to ask if people can access ancestry/ military databases for me on here? I'm looking for information on my grandfathers journey through the war and thereafter, a British Veteran of WW2 and conflicts throughout the post-war period up until 1951 (i think) but have no money to be able to do this at the moment.
Hello there! As your question is related to looking for identification/information regarding military personnel, our Guide on Military Identification may be of use to you. It provides a number of different resources, including how to request service records from a number of national agencies around the world, as well as graphical aids to assist in deciphering rank, unit, and other forms of badges or insignia. While the users here may still be able to lend you more assistance, hopefully this will provide a good place to start!
You might want to cross-post this on /r/genealogy. People post look-up requests for the various genealogy services all the time, and people even offer to do them sometimes unsolicited. There some very knowledgeable users there, and even for stuff that is unavailable online, they are often quite helpful with pointing you to where the records are kept, and the process of how you can request them. In some instances, the process is free or requires a rather nominal fee. Though for others, there can be a fee involved.
One place to start is with the free service (when you sign up for a free account) FamilySearch.org. They have quite a lot of records online, though I don't know if any of their collections is relevant to what you're researching. But they do have a blog post about researching British WWII military records. FamilySearch also has a wiki, where their users post How-To guides on where to find various types of records in countries around the world. Here is the index page to their How-To guides to various English military records.
I hope this helps. Good luck!