FREE UK Military Genealogy

Free Genealogy UK Military Records Search

American Revolutionary War

• Loyalist Muster Rolls
  Any inhabitant of North America who served in a military capacity for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  
  
• American Revolution; A List of General and Staff Officers on the Establishment in North America
  British, German, and Loyalist Officers 1755-1782
  
  
• British, German and Loyalist Officers in the American Revolution
  Rootsweb database
  
  

1800's

• The Trafalgar Roll
  Over 1500 Royal Navy sailors who served in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805
  
  
• East India Directory & Register - 1832
  
  
• Dockyard Volunteers
  British Army 1851
  
  
• Staff of the Commissariat Department of the British Army - 1851
  
  
• Naval & Marine Officers - A to H and I to Y
  1840 Naval and Military Almanac
  
  British Forces in Victoria, Australia 1836-1870

World War I

• British Army World War I Pension Records
  This database from Ancestry.com contains records of those who claimed military disability pensions for WWI service.
  
  
• British Army World War I Service Records
  This database from Ancestry.com contains the surviving service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who served in WWI.
  
  
• British Army Motor Cyclists of 1914
  
  
• British Army in the Great War
  Understanding a soldier's service during the Great War.
  
  
• British Army Index of Regimental Websites
  
  
• WW I British Prisoners of War
  National Archives interview reports of 3,000 of the 192,000 British and Commonwealth captives.
  
  
• Women's Royal Naval Service
  National Archives database of the service records of more than 7,000 women who joined the Women's Royal Naval Service between 1917-1919.

Casualties

• List of Casualties - East India Directory & Register - 1832

Medals

• Victoria Cross
  Name, rank, regiment, war, and grave locations for holders of the Victoria Cross.
  
  
• Victoria Cross
  Recipients and Royal Warrants 1854 - 1914
  
  
• WWI Campaign Medals Index
  National Archives
  
  
• WWII Seamen's Medals
  National Archives

Military Burials and Wills

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  Casualty database lists the names and place of commemoration of the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during World War I and World War II. Search by name, country, and forces served with.
  
  
• Wills of Royal Naval Seamen
  National Archives Seamen wills 1786 to 1882
  
  

Searching for your UK Military Ancestor

The documents giving details of regular soldier's careers during the 19th and early 20th centuries until the First World War are held at the Public Record Office.

The principal records are the soldier's Discharge Papers for those soldiers discharged with a pension. They are classified under WO.97. (The papers for those discharged without a pension were destroyed by fire many years ago). To find the papers for your ancestor, you must search in the period of his discharge.