First World War records now available online
01/10/2006
Ancestry.co.uk in partnership with The National Archives is now offering key sets of First World War records on their website.
The new content will contain digitised images and transcriptions for the Service and Pension records, revealing personal details of those who fought in the war.
Relatives of soldiers will soon discover more about their ancestors including information on physical appearance, wounds suffered, dates of campaigns served in, promotions, medals awarded, next of kin, regimental number and rank.
These records contain the service history of over 2.5 million individuals who served in World War 1. Originally stored in 44, 000 boxes, these records have been microfilmed in the last 5 years. Ancestry will be scanning this microfilm, creating over 40 million images.
London calling
The site has also just launched online the contents of British phone books from 1880-1984.
The first records to be launched are the phone books for Greater London, which reveal many fascinating insights into the social history of the past hundred years. Interesting entries include: Bram Stoker – phone Victoria 1436- 1916 Buckingham Palace – phone Victoria 6913- 1930 Laurence Olivier – phone Kensington 6505.
No ex-directory numbers then... but no Indian call centres trying to flog you mobile phones either.
For more details visit www.Ancestry.co.uk