Local Army Directory
http://www.army.mod.uk/join/local-army-directory.aspx
Armed Forces - Defence Suppliers Directory, and Defence Industry. Provides current Royal Navy,British Army, RAF, Royal Air Force information, http://www.armedforces.co.uk/
Evening all- I'm afraid I'm currently failing to get on armynet where I assume that there's a military directory for both civvie and mil numbers
https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/military-phone-directory.174747/
Forces Online is a website designed to promote the Veterans Directory which ... to fully register as aBritish Military Charity raising funds to support our Veterans.
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Our aim is to ensure that the armed forces have the training, equipment and support necessary for their work, https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence
A FREE Web Directory of UK Military/Veteran Websites. Simply navigate to your chosen Service (RN - RM - Army - RAF), http://www.afvba.uk/militarydirectory/
UK Charity providing welfare & support for those serving in the armed forces, veterans and armed forces families. We support the army, RAF and Navy. https://www.ssafa.org.uk/
This guide will help you to search for British Army records of soldiers who served ... The Ministry of Defence website gives more detail on British Army ranks. ..... and Musters 1757-1876: A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles
Military Records | Service Records | Ancestry.co.uk ... in our millions of service records, medal records, casualty lists and other Army records and Navy records.
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This website offers a fully-searchable database with details of over 2,200 armed ... The universe ofarmed forces charities in the UK comprises a wide range of ... by the Directory of Social Change (DSC), and is funded by the Forces
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Encyclopedia articles
· History of the British Army Wikipedia
· Recruitment in the British Army Wikipedia
· British Army Regiments 1881 (The Childers Reforms) Wikipedia
Other
· Regiments.org (Archived Site), see archived versions of a Numeric list of British Army Regiments and 1881 Regiments.
· Army Regiments from British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes details of deployments
· Famous Units National Army Museum. "The list is continually being updated and eventually we hope to cover every unit that has contributed to the British Army's history".
· Army Museums Ogilby Trust provides information about regimental museums. There is also a “book search” which lists books about the various regiments. Also includes
· Ancestor Research & Military Genealogy
Locate a local archives England and Wales only. gov.uk. Some regimental archives are located in local archives, not at the regimental museum.
· Historical Orders of Battle and TOEs 1900-1938. Includes British Army and Indian Army. orbat.com, now archived.
Historical Orders of Battle and TOEs 1939-1945, Includes British Army and Indian Army. orbat.com, now archived.
· Army Service Numbers
· "What’s In A Number? The Personal Numbering System of the Australian Army" by 2151240 Graham Wilson. Scroll to the section titled "Background – The British Experience".
· Army Service Numbers 1881-1918: Index armyservicenumbers.blogspot.com
· Renumbering of the army in 1920 1914-1918.net. Introduced by Army Order 338 of August 1920. A seven-digit number was issued in 1920 to all men then serving in regular or Territorial units. Once issued, the man retained the same number irrespective of his transfers and postings within the army. Generally the new numbers did not have prefixes but the Royal Army Service Corps was an exception. RASC numbers were prefixed S (Supplies), T (Transport), M (Mechanical Transport) or R (Remounts).
· The Cadet and Staff Registers of the Sandhurst Collection. The registers show the details for almost every officer cadet that attended the Royal Military Academy Woolwich and Royal Military College Sandhurst, England
· 46th Foot.com includes a detailed account of the 1834 attestation of a private, Frederick Crosland.
· Stephen Lewis' Soldiers Memorials lists NCO and other ranks graves in India by surname, amongst other memorials. Officers Died is the equivalent commissioned ranks site.
· The Asplin Military History Resources, about British Army history in the Victorian era, includes pages relevant to the British Army in India.
· International Ceylon Database: Military from Kyle Joustra’s website. Includes lists of names by regiment.
· Soldiers of the Queen: The Jewel in the Crown. Photographs of soldiers in India, Ceylon,The North-West Frontier Afghanistan. Includes Two Privates with a servant and pets, Sergeant E. J. Evans in the tropical version of his regimental "Mess Dress" uniform, with wife, Artillery Sergeant and family c 1900
· Uniform items: "British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds" by Stuart Bates. May 22, 2012. "Helmet Flashes in the British Army" by Benny Bough July 30, 2012. Includes details of two series of reference articles by John Mollo, and by Ron Kidd in The Formation Sign, Journal of The Military Heraldry Society. Alternative terminology is tactical recognition flash, pagri (puggaree) badge, Foreign Service Helmet (F S H) badge, or formation badge. "British Army Spine Pads" by Stuart Bates , April 27, 2012 militarysunhelmets.com. Photograph: Wolseley helmet. Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), 1916 (c). National Army Museum
Puttee Wikipedia. "Puttees and How to Wrap Them" May 31, 2011. The alternative herringbone style for putting on putties, using the principles of reverse spiral or looped bandaging[56] may be seen here (scroll to first puttees image and click to enlarge) medalofkar.com. How to wrap puttees, with crossing turns by James Heath. YouTube video.
· The Army Children Archive (TACA) contains information about children and wives, with themes such as Accommodation and On the Move. History Matters (scroll down) gives details of the enlistment of an orphan boy age five,the son of a soldier, as a drummer in 1786. There are references to India in a number of the themes. Accommodation Album: India
· On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army, a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
· "A Soldier's Family in the British Army during the War of 1812" by Robert Henderson warof1812.ca
· ‪Tommy Atkins. A series of five articles including "The Domestic Life of Tommy Atkins", "Tommy Atkins Married", about aspects of life in the Army in the late Victorian period.[57] These articles in turn include quotes from a series of articles which appeared in Navy and Army Illustrated commencing in June 1898 which gave insight into the life of an ordinary soldier.
· "‘Delicate duties’: issues of class and respectability in government policy towards the wives and widows of British soldiers in the era of the great war" by Janis LomasWomen's History Review, 9:1, 2000 pages 123-147. For rank and file soldiers, “on the strength” widows pensions applied from 1901, and “off the strength” widows pensions applied from the beginning of the First World War.
· The National Archives podcasts have a military history category including
· Sahib, the British soldier in India, 1750 – 1914 by Professor Richard Holmes
· Recruiting regions of Irish infantry regiments in the British Army from 1881 until 1922. A list of regiments, depots, counties together with a map. Select page 5 of the document in this link or pdf[58]
· "Information Document on the Irish Regiments of the British Army up to 31st July 1922". Irish Military Archives Dublin docs.google version, original pdf