
Tracing Your First World War Ancestors
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Content
- Cover
- Tittle Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Staring out
- Records Online
- Archives
- What's Where?
- Things to Remember
- The western front association
- Other Useful Genealogical Records and Sources
- Research pitfalls
- Using professional Researchers
- Chapter 2: Casualties
- Introduction
- War Graves
- InterPreting Burial Locations
- PhotoGraphing War Graves
- Rolls of Honour
- General Rolls of Honour
- War Memorials
- Scottish war Memorial
- Other Sources
- Hospital Records
- Chapter 3: Army Service Records
- Medal Index Cards
- Medal Rolls
- Service Records - Other Ranks and Non-commissioned Officers
- Army Service Numbers (regimental Numbers
- The Guards
- Service Records - Officers
- Army Lists and the London Gazette
- Service Records After 1920
- Identiying military uniforms
- Chapter 4: Researching Soldiers - Additional Resources
- War Diaries
- Gallantry Medals
- Good Conduct and Long Service Award Medals
- Courts Martial
- Prisoners of War
- Regimental Magazines
- Pensions
- Pension Record Cards
- Personal Papers and Effects
- Photographs and Film
- Trench Maps
- Chapter 5: The war at sea
- Royal Navy
- Navy or wavy Navy?
- Material at the fleet air ARM Museum
- The coastGuard
- Royal Marines
- Merchant Navy
- Chapter 6: In the Air
- Air 1
- Common Sources
- Service Records
- Royal Naval Air Service
- Flight Magazine
- Casualties
- Operational Records
- Medals and Awards
- Chapter 7: Women and Civilians at war
- Women's war work collection/ women at work collection
- Women at War
- Nursing
- Voluntary Aid Detachments
- Auxiliary Corps
- Civilians
- The National Roll of the Great War
- The Order of the British Empire
- Local Histories
- Military Service Tribunals
- Internees
- War Refugees
- Chapter 8: The Dominions
- Australia
- Canada
- India
- Newfoundland
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Colonies
- Apppendix 1: Useful Addresses
- Appendix 2: Key WebSites
- Appendix 3: How the Army was Organised
- Appendix 4: Battlefield Tourism
- Index
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