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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.

— British Red Cross

— Imperial War Museum

Includes guides to tracing ancestors in the services and prisoners-of-war.

— Imperial War Museum collections

Includes searching of the photographic archive.

— 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 studies resources: Plymouth Central Library

A major collection of historical and current material which is open to the public.

— 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.

— Monte Cassino Society (Italian campaign 1943-1945)

Information relating to the British Army campaign in Italy in World War Two.

Rolls of honour and Memorials

— 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.

— 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.

— UK national inventory of war memorials

Includes a database of names recorded on First World War memorials.

— University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour (available in 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.

— 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.

— British Prisoners of War

British prisoners of war archives, including interviews and reports.

— Children (and families) of the Far East Prisoners of War

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.

Museums

— Army Museums Ogilby Trust

Information about regimental museums in the UK plus research guides.

— Black Watch ancestry service