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Search for your ancestors in TheGenealogist's latest
release. It has just added a number of early army
records to the already wide-sweeping body of armed
forces data available on the site.
The earliest records in this new release are 16th century
Militia Musters for Somerset. The Certificate of Musters
in the County of Somerset 1569 contain names of
Militiamen (soldiers raised from the civil population) and what
role they carried out including archer, pikeman and
light-horseman.
The Battery Records of the Royal Artillery
1716-1859 is a prime reference record containing
tabulated Battery records, numerous useful historical notes,
lists of various officers and more.
For Mancunian military forebears The Manchester Regiment
63rd and 96th 1758-1922
includes the succession of Colonels and an alphabetical roll of
regimental officers from 1758 to 1923 showing dates of service
with the Regiment, dates of promotion and date and reason for
being struck off. With the centenary of the First World War
these records can be used to find casualties of all ranks from
"The Manchesters" in the Great War. With a list of
Honours and Awards, including foreign, these digitised books
also provide an interesting in-depth history of the regiment so
that researchers can follow the postings of The Manchester
Regiment and the action in which it took part.
Those researching Victorian soldiers will welcome the inclusion
of several early Army Lists in this release for
January 1838, December 1838, April 1886 and The Annual Army and
Militia List 1855.
Completing this Early Military Records release is The
Waterloo Roll Call of 1815 where you can search using
Title, Forename, Surname, Regiment, Rank, and other fields where
given. This list is of mainly officers who were present at the
Battle of Waterloo in Belgium on June 18th 1815. They fought
under the Duke of Wellington, whose record we can find in this
collection.
All these records can be searched from the Master Search on
TheGenealogist, and are now available to all Diamond
subscribers.
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