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First World War home page Service records for the First World War
Service records of soldiers in the British army
Service records of officers in the British army
Naval service records
Air force service records
Service records for women and medical personnel
Medals awards during the Frist World War
Court martials during the First World War
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The Imperial War Museum's collections include original documents, published material, photographs, artwork, exhibits, film and sound recordings - see the IWM website for further details regarding access to their research facilities. The Imperial War Museum

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Babington, A, For the Sake of Example (London, 1983).
Bagnold, G, A Diary without Dates (London, 1978).

Fowler, S, Spencer, W and Tamblin, S, First World War Army Service Records in The National Archives (Kew, 1998).

Jarvis, S and D, The Cross of Sacrifice (Reading, 1996).

Officers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 (London, 1919; also available on CD-ROM in The National Archives Library).

Putkowski, J, British Army Mutineers, 1914-1922 (London, 1998).
Putkowski, J and Sykes, J, Shot at Dawn: Executions in World War One by authority of the British Army Act (London, 1992).
Putkowski, J and Oram, G, Death Sentences Passed by Military Courts of the British Army 1914-1924 (London, 1998).

Pappalardo, B,Tracing Your Naval Ancestors (Kew, 2002).
Roger, N, Naval Records for Genealogists (Kew, 1998).

Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 (London, 1920; also available on CD-ROM in The National Archives Library).
Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-20 (London, 1922).
Spencer, W, Air Force Records for Family Historians (Kew, 2000).
Spencer, W, Army Service Records of the First World War (Kew, 2001).

Warlow, B, Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy (Liskeard, 1992).
Whitehead, I, Doctors in the Great War (London, 1999).


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Soldiers from the British empire

Clarke, PB, West Africans at War 1914 & 1939-45 (London, 1986).
Corrigan, G, Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-1915 (Staplehurst, 1999).
Cundall, F, Jamaica's Part in the Great War, 1914-1918 (Jamaica, 1925).

Dyde, B, The Empty Sleeve (London, 1997).

Farwell, B, The Gurkhas (London, 1984).
Fuller, J, Troop Morale and Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies, 1914-1918 (Oxford, 1990).

Howe, G, 'West Indian Blacks and the Struggle for Participation in World War I', Journal of Caribbean History (1994).

Joseph, C L, 'The British West Indies Regiment, 1914-1918', Journal of Caribbean History (1971).

Omissi, D, The Sepoy and the Raj (Basingstoke, 1994).

Tabili, L, We ask for British justice: workers and racial difference in late imperial Britain (Ithaca, 1994)
Tyquin, M, Gallipoli: The medical war. The Australian army medical services in the Dardanelles campaign of 1915 (Kensington, NSW, 1993)

Visram, R, 'The First World War and Indian Soldiers', Indo-British Review (1989).


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