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There are many places where you need help on a British military ancestors, but the best place to start is by gathering at home, you can get as much information as possible from their family.
can keep your important information that has been marked by family passed down through generations. Ask them to remember to do as much as possible and check-in lofts and scrapbooks for more information.
Only to find a name, you can on the right track, but only a picture orYou can bring your relatives ever closer. You can find old postcards, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings parish, pay books, drawings, maps, military cap badges, buttons from uniforms or souvenirs of battle as shells brass. If you are lucky, you can image "trench art" - struggle with some souvenir glass. 1914-1918 medals Medals will be useful, as all the soldiers had their name, rank and number of members on them.
Your family may also be able to show the gravescontaining information about your relative.
If you have any information as possible from his family, is a good idea, the National Archives in London, at your next port of call. You have continuous records dating back to 1750, but also medical records and discharge papers from previous events. You can find unit war diaries, where you can give your relative or documents and gallantry medals, campaign further insights into their lives on the military.
During thePeriod 1914-1918, records of accidents have been published in national newspapers every day and will be recorded in local newspapers, so a trip to the library to view the microfilm is a good idea.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains details of 1.7 million service personnel who died on operations since 1914, so it's worth looking up, if your relative died during the war.
Try a search for Ceremonial and Heritage Section of the Ministry of Defence for useful siteInformation on all national and regimental military museum.
Book an appointment at the Imperial War Museum in London, can view the vast collection of diaries, memoirs and letters in the documents department instead. You can find your family and what their life would be happy. They also have photographs and paintings that may be of interest, and have a complete selection of army lists.
The National Army Museum, Chelsea, has aVariety of artifacts, and could well be divided so worth popping in if you are in London.
Regimental museums are a treasure trove of useful information and most have a regiment. In recent centuries, many regiments were dissolved or merged and new, but created. A list of Army museums are available on the website of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, based in Salisbury are.
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