Military Ancestry - USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES Options

[neil1821]

Thought it would be a good idea to post a list of links here I've found useful in the past for those investigating their military ancestors.
I'll add to this from time to time, but here are some to begin with.

Victorian Wars & Campaigns
Indian Mutiny - List of medal recipients (top level info only) -
http://users.rootsweb.com/~indwgw/medalpage.htm

Zulu War/Rorke's Drift - http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/

Afghan War 1878 -80 - Garen is a mine of information about this particular conflict and the participants. http://www.garenewing.co.uk/angloafghanwar/

Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Great place to start. Lots of further links from here - http://www.angloboerwar.com/index.htm

What War? - another of Garen's. Which conflicts were the British involved in in any given year (victorian era)? - http://www.garenewing.co.uk/angloafghanwar...uff/whatwar.php


World War 1
The Great War Forum - http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/

The Long, Long Trail - http://www.1914-1918.net/

Soldiers Died in the Great War, National Roll of the Great War and other sources. Pay-to-view though - http://www.military-genealogy.com/

The War at Sea, the ships and the engagements - http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/


Casualties
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (database of deaths in both world wars) - http://www.cwgc.org/

Crimean War, Zulu War casualties & Army Deaths 1901-05. Recommend Kevin Asplin's site for much else besides - http://hometown.aol.co.uk/heatherasplin/home2.html

Afghan War casualties 1878-80 - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/afghana.htm

Officers Died (over wide span of wars) -
http://glosters.tripod.com/memindex3.htm

Other Ranks Died (sister site of above) - http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/memindz1.htm

Casualty database created by Rob Alexander (Victorian period) - http://www.surreygenealogist.com/sgdatabase.htm

Boer War Roll-of-Honour & Memorials - http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Boer/

Korean War Roll-of-Honour - http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Databases/Korea/index.html


Uniforms, Badges & Medals
Military Badge Identification (useful for Id'ing regiments from photos) - http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/badges/badgestart.htm

Soldiers of the Queen (Victorian military uniforms) - http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/

Les Hussards (Victorian cavalry uniforms) - http://www.hussards-photos.com/UK_home.htm

Medal Identification Ribbon Chart - http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/un...dom-ribbons.htm


Army - General
Land Forces of Britain & Empire - place to start when researching any regiment of the army - http://www.regiments.org/regiments/index.htm


Naval
Ancestors who fought at Trafalgar - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutap...algarancestors/

Naval service records 1873-1923 - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...avy-service.asp

Neil

[neil1821]

Regimental Museums
many welcome direct enquiries - see the sites below for contact information

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - http://www.argylls.co.uk/
Berkshire Regiment - http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3
Black Watch - http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/newsite/
Devonshire Regiment - http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org/
Dorsetshire Regiment - http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org/
Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment - http://www.dwr.org.uk/dwr.php?id=54&pa=97
Gordon Highlanders - http://www.gordonhighlanders.com/
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - http://www.greenhowards.org.uk/
The Guards - http://www.theguardsmuseum.com/
Hampshire Regiment - http://www.royalhampshireregimentmuseum.co.uk/
Household Cavalry - http://www.householdcavalry.gvon.com/museum.htm
Inniskilling Fusiliers - http://www.inniskilling.com/
Kings Own Lancaster Regiment - http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/museum05.htm
Kings Own Scottish Borderers - http://www.kosb.co.uk/index1.html
Kings Royal Rifle Corps - http://www.royalgreenjackets.co.uk/museumframeset.htm
Lancashire Fusiliers - http://www.fusiliersmuseum-lancashire.org.uk/
Light Dragoons - http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/regimental_history/index.php
Norfolk Regiment - http://www.rnrm.org.uk/
Northumberland Fusiliers - http://www.northumberlandfusiliers.org.uk/
Queens Dragoon Guards - http://www.qdg.org.uk/
Queens Royal Lancers - http://www.qrl.uk.com/m_home.html
Queens Royal Surrey Regiment - http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/
Rifle Brigade - http://www.royalgreenjackets.co.uk/museumframeset.htm
Royal Army Medical Corps - http://www.ams-museum.org.uk/education.htm
Royal Artillery - http://www.firepower.org.uk/
Royal Engineers - http://www.remuseum.org.uk/
Royal Scots - http://www.theroyalscots.co.uk/museum.html
Royal Warwickshire Regiment - http://www.warwickfusiliers.co.uk/
Royal Welsh Fusiliers - http://www.rwfmuseum.org.uk/
Sherwood Foresters - http://www.wfrmuseum.org.uk/sf_museum.htm
Somerset Light Infantry - http://www.sommilmuseum.org.uk/
South Wales Borderers - http://www.rrw.org.uk/
Staffordshire Regiment - http://x.staffordshireregimentmuseum.com/
Suffolk Regiment - http://www.suffolkregiment.org/Index.html
Welch Regiment - http://www.rrw.org.uk/
Wiltshire Regiment - http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3
Worcestershire Regiment - http://www.wfrmuseum.org.uk/worcs_museum.htm

[Sheena]

Hi Neil

That's an impressive list - you must have put a lot of work into compiling it.

Here's another one for the Scots:

Scottish National War Memorial http://www.snwm.org/ often has more details than the CWGC site.

Sheena

[neil1821]

That's a good one Sheena.
Keep them coming if you know of any others.

Neil

[neil1821]

Australian Forces

Australian War Memorial: General - http://www.awm.gov.au/database/biographical.asp

Boer War roll - http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/boer/

WW1 roll - http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/
WW1 service records - http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/defen...ts/ww1/ww1.html

WW2 roll - http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/


Canadian Forces

Canadian War Memorial - http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm...ions/virtualmem

Boer war roll -
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-506.001-e.html
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/publications/armstrong/boer/

WW1 service papers -
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02010602_e.html


New Zealand Forces

Boer War roll - http://nzhistory.net.nz/war/saw-database

Boer War/WW1 service papers - http://www.archives.govt.nz/doingresearch/...sonnelfiles.php

[Sheena]

Soldiers Died
National Roll of the Great War
Army Roll of Honour 1939-45
Army births, marriages & deaths
assorted other Army lists & roll calls

all available from
http://www.findmypast.com

(1837online.com as was) pay-per-view but also has 1841, 1861, 1871 & 1891 censuses for England and Wales and BMD indexes so may save registering at yet another site.
Sheena

[neil1821]

Armed Forces Service Records post 1920 - http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/service_r...ce_records.html

Far East Prisoners of War, World War 2 - http://www.fepow-community.org.uk/

[Anzestry]

The World War Two service papers for Australians are now available at http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/defen...ts/ww2/ww2.html

You can either order copies to be sent to you or some records are available for download as digital files.

Jeremy Palmer

[shamrocklad]

I regularly take a look at the Who Are You? Where Are You? website which has listings and pictures of military scenes and personel. The website is free to join and they give you some free space to upload your own pictures too.

Once a member you can respond to other people's enquiries and pictures.

Some examples of the military pictures and questions are:

http://www.whoareyou-whereareyou.com/photo...us/13/4/2/1066/

http://www.whoareyou-whereareyou.com/photo...us/13/7/1/1066/

http://www.whoareyou-whereareyou.com/photo...us/14/4/1/1066/

http://www.whoareyou-whereareyou.com/photo...us/14/5/2/1066/

http://www.whoareyou-whereareyou.com/photo...us/45/2/2/1066/

http://www.whoareyou-whereareyou.com/photo...us/45/2/1/1066/

[wyr_taliesin]

...and another one

Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)

The museum in Monmouth website is at http://www.monmouthcastlemuseum.org.uk/
The museum archive has its own site at http://www.monmouthcastlemuseum-archives.org.uk/ which includes a searchable database of nearly 7000 entries from the enlistment registers, and a very comprehensive list of resources about the Regiment in other Archives.

[Luzien]

Australian Military Resource

I have found this site to combine all Australian and New Zealand information about those in mounted service. Apart from naming every known person involved in the Boer War and Great War - in a mounted sense that is - with small bios of the men in the AIF, it has heaps of information about the Light Horse.

The site is:

Australian Light Horse Studies Centre

http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/

Hope folks find it as useful as I have done.

Luzien Laws