Archive for the ‘Army Records’ Category

Scarlet Finders

January 11th, 2012 Linda Elliott

clip_image002I’ve just had an email from Sue Light who is the person behind Military Nurses Records now available on Find My Past. She said she hadn’t been called a genealogical hero before, but I think anyone who offers their many hours of hard work to the public is a hero!

What I didn’t know was that Sue is also the author of a website called http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/. Having had a look at this well designed website I feel quite cheated that I don’t seem to have any military nurses on my family tree. There is so much to read on this site, Ware Diaries, Medals, Hospitals, different nursing services, book list and also a page about researching a nurse.

I think I will have to borrow some one else nursing ancestor and graft them onto my tree !

http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk

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Irish Military Records now online

January 5th, 2012 Linda Elliott

clip_image002Thanks to my friend Sue who sent me a link to newspaper article in The Irish Times which announced the launching of a new website which will be of interest to many family historians.

The Military Archives which are held at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin will now be available online for the first time.

I’ve only taken a quick look at the site, but it seems to be to be offering some really good information on a wide range of the people of Ireland.

Take a look !

http://www.militaryarchives.ie/

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WW1 Faces

December 31st, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002I have just come across the Imperial War Museum’s website set up to mark the centenary of World War 1. The website states …..

As part of the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Centenary Programme, photographs from the Museum’s ‘Bond of of Sacrifice’ are being uploaded to the photo-sharing site Flickr in a set called ‘Faces of the First World War’.

On Armistice Day 11.11.11, IWM made 100 previously unseen portraits of those who served in the First World War publically available for the first time on Flickr Commons.

IWM will continue to upload photographs to Flickr Commons every weekday until August 2014, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.

The Bond of Sacrifice is an archive of photographs collected by the IWM between 1917 and 1920. All of the photos tell a story. The men shown in them fought – and often died – for Britain and the Commonwealth during the First World War.

This is one of those websites where it would be worthwhile to set aside an evening to listen to the podcasts, read the articles and learn about the various projects that are being undertaken. There is even an interactive online family history course.

http://www.1914.org/centenary/

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WW1 Silver War Badge

November 9th, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002Ancestry.co.uk have added another dataset to their Military Records Collection. This time it is documents recording the awarding of the Silver War Badge. The Ancestry website gives details of the badge …..

The Silver War Badge was one of World War I’s most distinguished awards. It was given to servicemen who were discharged with a serious wound or illness – they wore it at home so they wouldn’t be accused of not doing their duty.

Our records reveal over 800,000 injured soldiers, sailors and pilots. Find an ancestor among them, and you’ll discover their rank, when they started and finished in the Forces, the unit they left and why they were discharged.

www.ancestry.co.uk

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Army Records online

November 5th, 2011 Linda Elliott

Ancestry.co.uk is offering free access to their army records between 10 November and 13 November. You will need to register with Ancestry to get access.

The records concerned are

WW1 Army Service Records

WW1 Army Pension Records

WW1 Army Medal Records

These records are a goldmine for the family historian as they give so much detail. Go take a look if you have never used these documents.

www.ancestry.co.uk

 

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Military Nurses Records 1856 – 1940

November 4th, 2011 Linda Elliott

Sue Light has provided Find My Past with 4,000 records regarding Military Nurses 1856 – 1940. I have no idea who Sue Light is, but I think she is one of the growing band of “genealogical heroes” who is allowing their work to go online. Thank you Sue !

Now onto the records…. they comprise five record sets

Army Nursing Service – a small but significant set of 238 nurses of often quite genteel origin, born in the 19th century

Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service – records of 783 nurses, born between 1859 and 1904

Royal Hospital Chelsea Nurses – records of 165 largely untrained nurses, born between 1839 and 1876, who served at the hospital for pensioned soldiers between 1856 and 1910

Scottish Women’s Hospital – records of 1,575 women (and men) who were stationed in continental Europe during WWI

WW2 Military Nurses – details of 1,244 nurses who served in France with either Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, or Queen Alexandra’s Reserve, or the Territorial Army Nursing Service, during WWII

So a dataset well worth a look at.

www.findmypast.co.uk

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Militia Attestation Papers

November 1st, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002[5]Find My Past has the Militia Attestation Papers that are housed at National Archives, Kew under record series WO96. The records available online date 1806 – 1915 and are a great source for family historians whose ancestors feature in them.

The militia who were part time soldiers were a county based force whose main job was the defence of England whilst the regular army were overseas fighting. A pre-curser of Dad’s Army!

The records were kept up to date until the solider was discharged providing full details of time in service. And, since the militia recruits were part-time, there are details of the jobs the men undertook for the rest of the time.

Lots of information on these records such as date & place of birth, occupation (when they weren’t off playing soldiers!), physical descriptions and even in a few of the later records photographs.

www.findmypast.co.uk

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1861 Army Census

September 18th, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002Findmypast has added a little known, but very useful dataset to it’s website. Roger Nixon, a military history researcher, has released an index of 245,000 soldiers who were serving in the British Army worldwide in 1861. The material has been collected using the April – June quarter Paylists which are held at The National Archive.

This surely must have been a labour of love which took many hours so it would be criminal if it was not widely used. Many thanks to Roger Nixon for allow online access to such useful data.

www.findmypast.co.uk

 

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Free access to army records

April 23rd, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002A good offer from http://www.ancestry.com.au/anzac2011.

Free access to Anzac (Australian & New Zealand) army records. These records are worth searching as many of us will have ancestors who emigrated hoping for a better life than the UK offered them.

http://www.ancestry.com.au/anzac2011

 

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British Library Record to go online

April 11th, 2011 Linda Elliott

The British Library & Findmypast have joined together to bring millions of records to the internet. The records come from the libraries collection of BDM’s from India and the UK Electoral Rolls up to 1932. These records will be of great help to genealogists especially the electoral rolls as they can be used in lieu of census not yet released.

 

http://www.findmypast.co.uk      http://www.bl.uk/

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