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Military
Click on the links below for information about army, navy, Royal Air Force and war records as well as medals, rolls of honour, memorials, museums and regiments:
Records
Aircrew and groundcrew
Ancestry.co.uk: military records
Subscription website.
Includes guides to tracing ancestors in the services and prisoners-of-war. Imperial War Museum collections
Includes searching of the photographic archive. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (King's College, London) Militia Service Records 1806-1915 (Findmypast) Ministry of Defence service records National Archives: Royal Air Force officers' service records
Service records of Royal Air Force officers during the First World War. National Archives of Scotland: military records Naval Officers' service records files c1880 to the 1950s (The National Archives) Naval studies resources: Plymouth Central Library
A major collection of historical and current material which is open to the public. Scottish Military Research Group
The Great War Archive
A University of Oxford project to collect together First World War material held by members of the public. The National Archives. Military history: your guide to sources Veterans UK (Service Personnel & Veterans Agency)
Battles and battlefields 1745 Association
Information relating to the Jacobite uprising of 1745. Battlefields Trust
Information about the sites of battles fought on British soil. Boer War, United Kingdom casualties, 1899-1902 Monte Cassino Society (Italian campaign 1943-1945)
Information relating to the British Army campaign in Italy in World War Two. Naval-history.net
Includes naval and marine corps casualty lists and details of naval military campaigns in the world wars.
Rolls of honour and Memorials Australian War Memorial (First and Second World Wars) Board of Trade roll of honour 1914-1919 British Army in World War One
The long, long trail (British Army in World War One). Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The "Debt of Honour Register" database. Fleet Air Arm
Information from the Fleet Air Arm Museum: Europe's largest naval aviation collection. HMT Lancastria Association
Information relating to the sinking of the liner Lancastria on 17 June 1940, Britain's worst maritime disaster. Lancastria Association of Scotland: victim list
Roll of Honour commemorating the victims of the Lancastria disaster, 17 June 1940. Leith Roll of Honour 1914-1918 (Lothian Health Services Archive)
Merchant Seamen - First World War Campaign Medals
Campaign medals awarded to First World War merchant seamen (The National Archives). Military genealogy: army roll of honour 1939-1945
The Army Roll of Honour Database containing the details of British Army casualties during World War Two. Ministry of Defence: 'We Were There' Exhibition
Exhibition commemorating the contribution of military and civilian personnel from the Indian sub-continent, Africa, and the Caribbean. National Memorial Arboretum
Information about the National Memorial Arboretum, comprising 150 acres of trees and memorials devoted to the concept of Remembrance. Police roll of honour trust
The roll of honour for members of Britain's police force who have lost their lives on duty. Roll of honour
Photographs of war memorials with lists of the names recorded for places throughout the United Kingdom. Scots at War Trust
Photographs of war memorials with lists of the names recorded for places throughout the United Kingdom. Scottish National War Memorial
Information from the memorial at Edinburgh Castle commemorating Scottish casualties, from World War One to present conflicts. Shot at dawn (World War I)
Information from the 'Shot at Dawn' (SAD) campaign that secured pardons for unjustly executed British and Commonwealth Soldiers. Shot at dawn cemetery list (World War I)
Burials of men executed under the Army Act during World War I. UK national inventory of war memorials
Includes a database of names recorded on First World War memorials. University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour - see e-Library University of Glasgow Roll of Honour
The names of the 755 men and women who fell in the Great War and of the 404 members known to have given their lives in the Second World War. Waterloo medal roll, 1815 Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) World War Two Lost Bombers Database
Prisoners of War Ancestry.co.uk: British Army prisoners of war 1939-1945
Database listing World War II British Army prisoners of war. Information includes: name, rank, army number, regiment, POW number, and camp information.
Information about the children (and families) of Allied Prisoners of War from the Far East, during World War Two. Imperial War Museum
Information from Imperial War Museum about tracing British prisoners of war. List of German camps for Allied POWs
List of German camps for Allied Prisoners of War in World War Two in Europe. Looking for records of a British prisoner of the First World War (The National Archives guide) Looking for records of a British prisoner of the Second World War (The National Archives guide) Prisoner of war records (British Red Cross)
Museums Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Information about regimental museums in the UK plus research guides. Black Watch ancestry service Maritime and naval museums in Britain and Ireland
National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich) National War Museum Royal Air Force Museum Royal Marines Museum Royal Naval Museum manuscript collections Royal Scots Regimental Museum at Edinburgh Castle
Regiments Regiments.org
Histories of the regiments of British, Empire and Commonwealth armies. Scottish military history - lineages of the Scottish regiments
Subscription website.
Note - Ancestry has released a new search function and image viewer which is not compatible with Internet Explorer version 6. Click here for instructions: how to access and use the old viewer.
Army personnel centre
British Red Cross
Edinburgh's War 1914-1918
Forces war records (from c1350)
Imperial War MuseumIncludes guides to tracing ancestors in the services and prisoners-of-war. Imperial War Museum collections
Includes searching of the photographic archive. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (King's College, London) Militia Service Records 1806-1915 (Findmypast) Ministry of Defence service records National Archives: Royal Air Force officers' service records
Service records of Royal Air Force officers during the First World War. National Archives of Scotland: military records Naval Officers' service records files c1880 to the 1950s (The National Archives) Naval studies resources: Plymouth Central Library
A major collection of historical and current material which is open to the public. Scottish Military Research Group
The Great War Archive
A University of Oxford project to collect together First World War material held by members of the public. The National Archives. Military history: your guide to sources Veterans UK (Service Personnel & Veterans Agency)
Battles and battlefields 1745 Association
Information relating to the Jacobite uprising of 1745. Battlefields Trust
Information about the sites of battles fought on British soil. Boer War, United Kingdom casualties, 1899-1902 Monte Cassino Society (Italian campaign 1943-1945)
Information relating to the British Army campaign in Italy in World War Two. Naval-history.net
Includes naval and marine corps casualty lists and details of naval military campaigns in the world wars.
Rolls of honour and Memorials Australian War Memorial (First and Second World Wars) Board of Trade roll of honour 1914-1919 British Army in World War One
The long, long trail (British Army in World War One). Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The "Debt of Honour Register" database. Fleet Air Arm
Information from the Fleet Air Arm Museum: Europe's largest naval aviation collection. HMT Lancastria Association
Information relating to the sinking of the liner Lancastria on 17 June 1940, Britain's worst maritime disaster. Lancastria Association of Scotland: victim list
Roll of Honour commemorating the victims of the Lancastria disaster, 17 June 1940. Leith Roll of Honour 1914-1918 (Lothian Health Services Archive)
Merchant Seamen - First World War Campaign Medals
Campaign medals awarded to First World War merchant seamen (The National Archives). Military genealogy: army roll of honour 1939-1945
The Army Roll of Honour Database containing the details of British Army casualties during World War Two. Ministry of Defence: 'We Were There' Exhibition
Exhibition commemorating the contribution of military and civilian personnel from the Indian sub-continent, Africa, and the Caribbean. National Memorial Arboretum
Information about the National Memorial Arboretum, comprising 150 acres of trees and memorials devoted to the concept of Remembrance. Police roll of honour trust
The roll of honour for members of Britain's police force who have lost their lives on duty. Roll of honour
Photographs of war memorials with lists of the names recorded for places throughout the United Kingdom. Scots at War Trust
Photographs of war memorials with lists of the names recorded for places throughout the United Kingdom. Scottish National War Memorial
Information from the memorial at Edinburgh Castle commemorating Scottish casualties, from World War One to present conflicts. Shot at dawn (World War I)
Information from the 'Shot at Dawn' (SAD) campaign that secured pardons for unjustly executed British and Commonwealth Soldiers. Shot at dawn cemetery list (World War I)
Burials of men executed under the Army Act during World War I. UK national inventory of war memorials
Includes a database of names recorded on First World War memorials. University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour - see e-Library University of Glasgow Roll of Honour
The names of the 755 men and women who fell in the Great War and of the 404 members known to have given their lives in the Second World War. Waterloo medal roll, 1815 Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) World War Two Lost Bombers Database
Prisoners of War Ancestry.co.uk: British Army prisoners of war 1939-1945
Database listing World War II British Army prisoners of war. Information includes: name, rank, army number, regiment, POW number, and camp information.
Note - Ancestry has released a new search function and image viewer which is not compatible with Internet Explorer version 6. Click here for instructions: how to access and use the old viewer.
British Prisoners of War
British prisoners of war archives, including interviews and reports.
Children (and families) of the Far East Prisoners of WarInformation about the children (and families) of Allied Prisoners of War from the Far East, during World War Two. Imperial War Museum
Information from Imperial War Museum about tracing British prisoners of war. List of German camps for Allied POWs
List of German camps for Allied Prisoners of War in World War Two in Europe. Looking for records of a British prisoner of the First World War (The National Archives guide) Looking for records of a British prisoner of the Second World War (The National Archives guide) Prisoner of war records (British Red Cross)
Museums Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Information about regimental museums in the UK plus research guides. Black Watch ancestry service Maritime and naval museums in Britain and Ireland
National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich) National War Museum Royal Air Force Museum Royal Marines Museum Royal Naval Museum manuscript collections Royal Scots Regimental Museum at Edinburgh Castle
Regiments Regiments.org
Histories of the regiments of British, Empire and Commonwealth armies. Scottish military history - lineages of the Scottish regiments
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