Military - British

[MaryA]

In addition to whatever help our our excellent medals experts are able to offer, I thought I'd just post a couple of sites you can check out yourselves.

MOD Medal Office, Building 250, Imjin Barracks, Gloucester GL3 1HW
http://www.mod.uk/defenceinternet/defen ... ans/medals

The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

For the Medal Rolls etc.
www.ancestry.co.uk

Documents Online
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

Waterloo Medal Roll and others
http://www.military-genealogy.com/

WWI Medals Guide
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/docu ... medals.asp
http://www.medalsuk.co.uk/ww1/ww1index.html

WWII Medals Guide
http://www.medalsuk.co.uk/ww2/ww2index.html

In fact quite a lot of information on the Medals site http://www.medalsuk.co.uk/

[MaryA]

Thanks to Daggers for the reminder about this site http://www.twgpp.org/ which has many photographs for either the memorial stones or grave/headstones of many of our military ancestors.

[southlancsman]

Hi,
Just seen this site and thought it might be of interest to a some.
http://lbmhs.co.uk/
Latham and Burscough Military History Site

Regards,
Ste

[Tex T]

I have been made aware of this website by Mike McNicholas who is writing a book about Widnes born men who were killed in WW1.

https://www.gov.uk/probate-search#before-you-start
(this link takes you to the search page)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thou ... s-released
(this link takes you to an explanatory page)

If you click on the first link you will see that you can "Search for the will of a soldier who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986". However, as you might expect, there is a charge, £6 for each will. I don't know how many wills are held, in my case I searched for the wills of 3 of my relatives and found 2.

I have yet to order any, so I cannot comment on the service or quality of the images.

[murphypast]

I also ordered one and it arrived within 48 hours to my computer. There was a standard handwritten will, a page explaining that this was an informal will written by the person while he was "in actual military service" and recognised by the War Office as constituting a valid will but in my case also an extra little note asking that "whoever finds this book kindly return it and the photo of my wife to her" and giving his wife's name and address. He was killed at the Dardanelles six weeks after writing his will.
Marie

[MaryA]

Thought this would be useful as we come across so many abbreviations in Service Papers etc.

http://www.1914-1918.net/abbrev.htm

[VicMar1]

A promising source of knowledge and experience for those thinking of acquiring genuineitems of such memorabilia (2015)

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/

[MaryA]

Although it's common knowledge that many establishments were pressed into service as military hospitals to cope with the flow of wounded, I think many will still be surprised at the length of this list - and the English ones are incomplete!
http://www.1914-1918.net/hospitals_uk.htm

[MaryA]

http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/ ... ions.shtml