Gould Genealogy and History

This book is designed to help you if you are starting out, but it will also be useful for more experienced researchers. This extensively revised and updated editions is:

• comprehensive and easy to use
• gives details and website addresses of all major UK Archives and Museums
• lists Battlefield Museums, Monuments, Memorials, Cemeteries and Tour Companies
• features the latest releases of documents at The National Archives
• covers all three armed services, plus the Merchant Navy and women's work at home
• also helps to trace soldiers from the Commonwealth, America, France and Germany

Contents:
Introduction
1. Getting Started
  - Where to start
 - Identifying old photographs
 - Background reading
 - Where the records are
 - Undertaking research
 - Making use of your research
2. Everyday Life in the British Army
3. Tracing Individual Soldiers
 - Service records
 - Medals and awards
 - Casualties
 - Prisoners of war
 - Operational records
 - Other sources
4. Naval and Marine
 - Royal Navy
 - Royal Marines
 - Merchant Marine
5. The Air Services
6. Women and Civilians
 - Women in the Armed Services
 - Nursing
 - Charity Work
 - Factories and Farms
 - Records for Other Non-Combatants
7. Combatants from Other Nations
 - British Empire
 - Non-Imperial Forces
 - Germany
Appendix 1. List of useful addresses
Appendix 2. Battlefield tourism
Appendix 3. The First World War in statistics
Appendix 4. Further reading
Appendix 5. Websites
Appendix 6. List of abbreviations
Appendix 7. Army command structure
Appendix 8. Timeline: key events during the First World War
Index