• First World War – an overview
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• British and Commonwealth prisoners of the First World War and previous wars
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• British Army medal index cards 1914-1920
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• British Army nurses
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• British Army nurses’ service records 1914-1918
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• British Army officers of the First World War
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• British Army operations in the First World War
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• British Army soldiers of the First World War
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• British Army war diaries 1914-1922
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• British military campaign and service medals
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• British military gallantry medals
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• Conscientious objectors
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• Deaths in the First and Second World Wars
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• Disability and dependents’ pensions in the First World War
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  First World War soldiers’ service and pension records
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• Fleet Air Arm personnel
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• Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office records from 1782
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• Foreign Office correspondence 1906-1919
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• Household Cavalry soldiers’ service records 1799-1920
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• Intelligence and security services
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• Internees
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• Land and property requisitioned for war in the 20th century
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• League of Nations
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• Merchant seamen of the First World War
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  Merchant seamen registers 1918-1941
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• Merchant seamen serving since 1918
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• Merchant seamen’s campaign medal records 1914-1918
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• Merchant seamen’s medals and honours
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• Middlesex military service appeal tribunal 1916-1918
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• Military maps of the First World War
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• Military nursing
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• Officers in the Merchant Navy
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• Prisoner of war interview reports 1914-1918
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• Prisoners of war in British hands
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  Prisoners of war: selected records 1715-1945
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• Research and development in the British Army
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• Research and development in the Royal Navy
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  Royal Air Force airmen service records 1912-1939
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• Royal Air Force nurses
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• Royal Air Force officers’ service records 1918-1919
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• Royal Air Force operations
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• Royal Air Force personnel
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• Royal Flying Corps airmen
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• Royal Flying Corps officers
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• Royal Marines officers
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• Royal Marines other ranks
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• Royal Marines’ service records 1842-1925
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• Royal Naval Air Service officers
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• Royal Naval Air Service officers’ service records 1906-1918
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• Royal Naval Air Service ratings
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• Royal Naval Division personnel
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• Royal Naval Division service records 1914-1919
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• Royal Naval dockyard staff
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• Royal Naval Reserve officers’ service records 1862-1964
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• Royal Naval Reserve personnel
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• Royal Naval Reserve service records 1860-1955
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• Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve service records 1903-1922
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• Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers: further research
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• Royal Navy commissioned officers
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• Royal Navy nurses and medical officers
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• Royal Navy officers’ pensions
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• Royal Navy officers’ service record cards and files c.1840-c.1920
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• Royal Navy officers’ service records 1756-1931
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• Royal Navy operations in the First World War
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• Royal Navy ratings of the First World War
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• Royal Navy ratings’ pensions 17th-20th centuries
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• Royal Navy ratings’ service records 1853-1928
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• Royal Navy ratings: further research
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• Royal Navy warrant officers
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• Ships wrecked or sunk
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• Victoria Cross registers 1856-1944
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• Volunteers and Territorials
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• Women in the British Army
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• Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps service records 1917-1920
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• Women’s Royal Air Force personnel
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• Women’s Royal Air Force service records 1918-1920
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• Women’s Royal Naval Service personnel
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• Women’s Royal Naval service records 1917-1919
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