Much Ado About Nothing

[RichardB]

Well, not WW1 itself, obviously but this

British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920

from Ancestry.co.uk.

Shows a record card front and back, the persons name, Regiment number, Service number and a Roll number and Page number against

Victory Medal

British medal

and possibly

Star (not awarded in my relatives instance).

Reverse of card is blank.

Not much to shout about ! But, it's there if you are looking for a lost relative ...

[Stuart0742]

There is some good stuff on Ancestry for WW1 records

WW1 Army Pension records, lot of useful stuff if any body made any sort disability pension claim.

WW1 Service records, many were destroyed in the blitz WW2 but worth looking at surnames A - C seem quite complete.

WW1 Naval Casualties

[Guest Trefcon]

These are excellent, ish. You can see the original colour/and back, which you couldn't with the microfilm copies from the National Archives, plus it's £3.50 a download.

Colour copies/and back were available from the Western Front Association at a fiver a go i think, anyway its the WFA who has sold the cards/copies to Ancestry for £200,000?

This is the first collation to be released, further release later.

Very patchy coverage though, something like 74,000 Smiths at the NA, Ancestry has only a very small amount.

Also with Ancestry, they are not very good at getting the correct names/spelling right, in fact they are nortorious for it, especially with mens service records.

But apart from the gripe's above, a good step in the right direction.

Dean.