Useful Websites - Military

Click on the links below for First World War websites and information about army, navy and Royal Air Force records and museums as well as battles and battlefields, rolls of honour and memorials and prisoners of war:

First World War

• First World War 100 (The National Archives)
• The Long, Long Trail:  The British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918
• British military lists (National Library of Scotland)
• Board of Trade roll of honour 1914-1919 (archived pages - The National Archives)
• Edinburgh's War 1914-1918
• Legion Scotland (Royal British Legion Scotland) 1914-2014
• Leith Roll of Honour 1914-1918 (Lothian Health Services Archive)
• The Great War Archive - University of Oxford project to collect material held by members of the public
• War Memorials Archive (Imperial War Museum)
• Looking for records of a British prisoner of the First World War (The National Archives)

Records

• Aircrew and groundcrew
• Ancestry.co.uk: military records (subscription)
• Army Personnel Centre
• British Army Service Records 1760-1915 (Findmypast.com)
• Forces war records (from c1350)
• Imperial War Museums
• Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (King's College, London)
• Ministry of Defence service records
• Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee:  index of doctors in Scotland during the First World War (Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh)
• Scottish Military Research Group
• The National Archives
• Veterans UK (Service Personnel & Veterans Agency)

Battles and battlefields

• 1745 Association
• Battlefields Trust - the sites of battles fought on British soil.
• Boer War, United Kingdom casualties, 1899-1902
• Monte Cassino Society (Italian campaign 1943-1945)
• Naval-history.net - naval and marine corps casualty lists and details of naval military campaigns in the world wars.

Rolls of Honour and Memorials

• Australian War Memorial (First and Second World Wars)
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - the "Debt of Honour Register" database.
• Lancastria Association of Scotland: victim list - Roll of Honour commemorating the victims, 17 June 1940.
• Military genealogy: army roll of honour 1939-1945 - Army Roll of Honour Database
• Police Roll of Honour Trust
• Roll of Honour - photographs of war memorials with lists of the names recorded for places throughout the United Kingdom.
• Scottish National War Memorial - Edinburgh Castle commemorating Scottish casualties from World War One to present conflicts
• University of Glasgow Roll of Honour - names of 755 men and women who fell in the Great War and of 404 known to have given their lives in the Second World War.
• Waterloo medal roll, 1815
• Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF)
• World War Two Lost Bombers Database

Prisoners of War

• Ancestry.co.uk: British Army prisoners of war 1939-1945
• British Prisoners of War - including interviews and reports.
• Children (and families) of the Far East Prisoners of War
• Imperial War Museums
• List of German camps for Allied POWs - Second World War
• Looking for records of a British prisoner of the Second World War (The National Archives guide)
• Prisoners of the First World War, the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) archives
• Prisoner of war records (British Red Cross)

Museums

• Army Museums Ogilby Trust - regimental and army corps museums and collections
• Black Watch ancestry service
• Fleet Air Arm Museum -  Europe's largest naval aviation collection.
• National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich)
• National War Museum
• Royal Air Force Museum
• Royal Marines Museum
• Royal Naval Museum manuscript collections
• Royal Scots Regimental Museum at Edinburgh Castle