Fowler, Simon,

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.

9781781590867 (paperback) RM74.01 1781590869 (paperback)


United Kingdom. Army --Biography--Sources.


Soldiers--Biography--Sources.
United Kingdom--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.