Tracing your army ancestors : a guide for family historians /
spine title : Tracing your army ancestors.
Simon Fowler.
- Second Edition.
- x, 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
'First edition published in Great Britain in 2006'--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Getting started -- Organization of the Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The Army before 1660 -- Officers -- Other ranks: enlistment and conditions of service -- Medals -- Casualty records -- Discipline and desertion -- Pension records -- Militia, 1757-1914 -- Women -- British in India -- Dominion and Colonial forces -- Boer War -- The First World War -- The Second World War -- 1919-1969 -- Army service numbers -- Problem solving -- TNA research guides on tracing soldier ancestors -- Army ranks.