Covering the period from 1760 to 1913, this podcast from the National Archives by William Spencer discusses the service records of army officers and other ranks.
Tracing pre 1914 army ancestors
June 23, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Podcast)
Tags: Army, National Archives
Sources for Army Officers’ Commissions
April 17, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Podcast)
Tags: Army, National Archives
In this podcast from The National Archives Podcast Series, Mark Dunton looks at the system for purchasing and selling commissions as it worked from 1800 – 1871. He will cover first appointments, promotions, exchanges, retirement, the payment process and the activities of the ‘Army Agents’. He will use document examples to illustrate the talk.
Sources for First World War army ancestry
April 11, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Podcast)
Tags: Army, First World War, National Archives
In this podcast from The National Archives Podcast Series, Mark Dunton focuses on the prime sources at The National Archives for documenting First World War army service, covering both the officers and other ranks of the British Army.
Sahib, the British soldier in India, 1750 – 1914
March 20, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Podcast)
Tags: Army, India, National Archives
In this talk from The National Archives Podcast Series, Well known military historian Professor Richard Holmes examines Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived.
Army deaths, marriages and births 1761-1913
March 13, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Podcast)
Tags: Army, National Archives
Many family trees fall at the hurdle of locating the death of a British soldier, his marriage or the birth of his children. The records available are woefully incomplete, scattered and often not fully indexed. In this podcast from The National Archives Podcast Series, Chris Watts examines the material available for tracing these events, for a pre-First World War British soldier, and guides the researcher in its use; material available on fiche, film or the Internet is highlighted.
