Tracing your army ancestors : a guide for family historians

Fowler, Simon. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781781590867
ISBN: 1781590869
Physical Description: x, 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Barnsley : Pen & Sword Family History, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First edition published in Great Britain in 2006"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.