WW1 (1914-18)

The following items are just some of those which are available to me:

• Medal Index Cards and Medal Rolls for the Army, which is effectively an alphabetical index of all British Army personnel who served overseas in WW1
• Service Records for officers and men of the Royal Navy and Army
• Battalion War Diaries
• Rolls of Honour
• Army Lists with brief details of nearly every officer in the British Army
• Regimental and Battalion Histories
• Original printed registers for all Commonwealth War Graves and Memorials
• Locations, photographs and brief details of most war cemeteries and memorials in France and Flanders
• Locations of Territorial Force Units at the start of the War
• Locations of Hospitals and Casualty Clearing Stations
• Chronology of WW1. (What happened on a specific day)
• Dates, locations and official names of all the battles of WW1
• Orders of Battle of the Divisions. (Where a division fought, what units made up the division, and a brief history of the division)
• Atlas of WW1 showing movements of troops, locations of bombing raids and airfields, disposition of naval forces and sea battles - eg Dogger Bank and the Battle of Heligoland Bight
• Details of all ships which served in the Royal Navy, or were lost during the war
• NCOs and Airmen of the RFC who enlisted prior to the start of WW1. (Career details and some photos)
• Description of all aircraft operated by the flying services

The names of the regiments can get rather confusing, and I have made a list of the Regiments and Corps which existed in WW1. This gives the correct titles, and shows them in the acknowledged Order of Precedence.

Uniforms of soldiers can reveal many clues about when the photograph was taken, the regiment the soldier belonged to, and his rank or appointment. I have scanned a group photograph of WW1soldiers and have annotated it to show how this information can be obtained from small details which otherwise might be missed.