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American Revolution; A List of General and Staff Officers on the Establishment in North America, 1755-1782
Ancestry Military Records Collectionsearch millions of military records in dozens of databases., including WW1 Medal Rolls, WW1 British Army Service Records, British Army Service Records..
British Forces in Victoria, Australia 1836-1870
English Light Infantry Regiments
British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918 a collection of cemetery and memorial registers from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The collection is comprised of 16 printed volumes containing 106 registers and covering approximately 250 cemeteries
British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920Approximately 5 million men served in the British Army in World War One (WWI). This database contains service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who were discharged from the Army and claimed disability pensions for service in WWI
British Army Index of Regimental Websites
Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815 Beside the name of each officer is his rank and the year in which he served in that rank
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
searchable database of 1.7 million persons who died in wars from 1914-1948 and later (select Debt of honour register at homepage)
Forces Reunited - Military Genealogy Over 2 million military records dating back to 1630
Forces War Records over 3.5 million British Armed Forces personnel exclusively cross matched with over 4000 Regiments, Bases and Ships of the British Armed Forces going back to before 1350
History of the Victoria Cross has grave locations and names of many holders of the Victoria Crosss in the UK+Ireland
Pre and Post WW2 South African or Rhodesian Casualties serving with British Units Buried in (or believed to be buried in the United Kingdom)
Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth
South Africa 1877-79 casualties searchable database
The British Army in the Great War this site does not list military rosters, but has a comprehensive collection of information about each regiment, who and where they fought etc.
Victoria Cross Recipients
UK National Inventory of War Memorials a project to index over 54,000 war memorials (not much online yet)

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Wills of Royal Naval Seamen, 1786 - 1882  courtesy National Archives over 35,000 names
WW1 British Prisoners of War
courtesy National Archives
WW1 Prisoner of War interviews  courtesy National Archives; Search and download First World War interviews and reports for over 3,000 named individuals
WW1 Women's Royal Air Force  courtesy National Archives; search and download the service records of over 30,000 women who joined the Women's Royal Air Force (1914-1919)
WW1 Women's Royal Naval Service  courtesy National Archives; search and download the service records of more than 7,000 women who joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (1917-1919)
WW1 Campaign Medals Index courtesy National Archives
WW2 Seamen's MedalsWW2 Seamen's Medals courtesy National Archives
WWII 'United News' Newsreels, 1942-1946 this database contains all 267 issues of the 'United News' newsreels
Victoria Cross Awards -- 1854-1914
1805..The Trafalgar Roll  names of 1640 sailors who served in the battle of Trafalgar
1832..East India Directory & Register -list of casualties
1840..Naval & Marine Officers listed in the Naval & Military Almanac  A to H and I to Y
1851..British Army: Dockyard Volunteers
1851..Staff of the Commissariat Dept, British Army
1914..Army Motor Cyclists