Military History

World War One	World War Two	The Army	The Royal Navy
The Royal Air Force	British Army Regiments

General Military Information

British Military Records through the ages

When you are searching for Military Service Records there are a few important pieces of information that you need to have. These are:

• Full name of the individual. If you have as full a name as possible as this will make tracking your individual easier. E.g. John Brown. There must be hundreds of John Browns. If you have a middle name it will make things a bit easier. E.g. John W Brown.
• The Service in which he served. Army, Royal Navy or Air Force.
• Rank and Regiment or Naval Ship or Squadron. Having the service number can be particularly helpful.
• Find out when the person served; pre First World War, First World War and after 1920.
• The more details you have the better. Even the Enlistment date and Demob dates are helpful as well.

Researching Prisoners of War

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva keeps lists of all known POWs and internees of all nationalities for the Second World War. Enquiries concerning these lists should be directed to:

Archives Division and Research Service
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 Avenue de la Paix,
Geneva CH-1202,
Switzerland

email: archives.gva@icrc.org

POW Links

• Prisoners of war - The Great War Military executions -desertion
• 306 labelled deserters, later pardoned
• COFEPOW Site
• Australian POW

Book! Prisoners of War, British Army, 1939 - 1945

That lists alphabetically over 107,000 British Army POWs of all ranks held in Germany or in German occupied territories in World War Two. It gives each POW's camp, POW number, surname, initials, rank, army number and regiment/corps.

It was re-published in 1990, by J B Hayward and Sons of Polstead, Suffolk (cost £38) ISBN 0-903754-61-

Useful Links

• Imperial War Museum London
• 20th Century Espionage
• National Archives of Australia
• The Tank Museum
• The Story of the Home Guard
• The Home Guard
• Home Guard Pocket Manual
• RAF Bridgnorth
• ForcesReunited
• Seniors Network
• The Maple Leaf Memorial Project
• For pre-WW1, WW1, Royal Navy and Air Force can be searched for at the National Archives in Kew If you find someone in the burnt records- WO 363, For the Army in WW1. Don't leave it there..... Also check the unburnt records - WO 364.
• War Memorials In Cheshire and Lancashire
• International Committee Of The Red Cross
• The Naval & Military Press' website for military historians and family genealogists.
• Fleet Air Arm Archives
• Royal Engineers Museum Website
• Boer War database
• Another Boer War database
• Indian Mutiny Medal Recipients
• Anzacs Officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Died at Gallipoli, 1915
• Anzacs Anzacs site with lots of info

A-Z List of Ex-Military Service Organisations

A-Z List of Ex-Military Service

Medals and Decorations

• The purpose of this particular page is to provide lists of recipients of medals in British India
• Downloadable pictures and descriptions of UK military medals
• List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality
• British Medal Forum
• Medal Cards Interpreting campaign medal index cards

World War One and Two Dual Links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Rushden roll of honour
• In Memories-Details of Commonwealth World War One and Two communal cemeteries and graveyards in Belguim and France
• British War Memorial Project
• Imperial War Museum Collections Online
• South Africa War Graves
• New Zealand Armed Forces and Memorial Project
• Australian war graves Photographic Project-AWGPA
• Australian War Memorial - a database of Australians who fought in various wars
• Roll Of Honour Mainpage
• A web-site dedicated to the people of Peterborough who were killed during the First and Second World Wars
• War Memorials and Graves on Isle of Wight
• Tidworth Military cemetery
• War memorials in the old Avon area round Bristol
• Found this site totally by chance it looks for neglected war graves in Britain
• Memorial Genweb This site is in FRENCH
• 16th Irish Division-dedicational site The Role of the Irish in the war
• Bromton War Memorial, Kent
• Rainham War memorial, Kent

Women in the Military

• Reminiscences of Land Army girls
• Brief history-Wrens
• Voluntary Aid Detachments
• Another VAD site
• images of VAD life
• This is a great database for Canadian women in world war one
• The Auxiliary Territorial Service-ATS
• The Women's Army Corps

Canadian Soldiers

• Canadian Soldiers WW1- a database Very comprehensive site from a Canadian perspective
• Canadian Libraries archive database
• Gateway site with personal reports and observations submitted
• Archive of Canadian Soldiers with photographs
• War Diaries
• 102nd Canadian Battalion BN CEF
• 116,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders
• Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group Forum

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery...s/RNShips.html

• London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom. why in this section??

Your great Uncle was on board the ship HMS Dartmouth at the time.

QUOTE from enemy perspective on http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian...horthy/06.html 'The enemy had lost twenty-three net-trailing drifters, two transports, two destroyers and one aeroplane. In addition, the enemy flagship Dartmouth was attacked by a German U-boat as she was entering the harbour of Brindisi and holed by two torpedoes. The French destroyer Boutefeu, going to the assistance of the Dartmouth, ran onto a mine released by the U-boat and sank.' UNQUOTE

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HMS Pembroke is a shore base not a ship. It's Chatham Naval Barracks and also home of the Coast guard Service.

Note from Caroline's brother: Had a quick look at the site. 
Under Military, HMS Pembroke closed years ago. 
Ended up in the University of Greenwich.

Lancastria Association of Scotland

www.lancstria.org