This research guide offers handy hints and tips for discovering and researching pioneering women who served as nurses during WWI and WWII.
Tag: WWI
Forces War Records Joins the Ancestry Family
The leading family history website Ancestry has announced that it is acquiring UK military records website Forces War Records.
Boy Soldiers at War
Throughout history children have ended up on the battlefields. Read more details about boy soldiers in WW1 and WW2 on Forces War Records
Thiepval Memorial – commemorating the Missing of the Somme
The Thiepval Memorial bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Battles of the Somme during WW1
Track down World War One and World War Two Officers
Search and Discover thousands of British Officers in WW1 and WW2 using our Army Lists and other resources from Forces War Records
One Thousand Men Are Walking
Joshua Dyer (aged 14) was tasked at school to write a poem for Remembrance Day 2019. An hour later (without any help) he produced the following poignant poem – One Thousand Men Are Walking
Discover your ancestor’s Military History
No matter in what avenue your family member served – whether they joined the Forces, did what they could in the factories and fields the Home Front, travelled to tend the sick on the battlefields of the Western Front or worked for the government – theirs
The Great War in Numbers
With Remembrance Sunday 2018 just days away, Forces War Records takes a look at the numbers behind the Great War 1914-18
The Second Battle of Cambrai 1918
On 8 October, the First and Third British Armies broke through the Hindenburg Line at the Second Battle of Cambrai
The Fifth Battle of Ypres
Learn more about the British victory in the fifth Battle of Ypres in WW1