Finding Your British WWI Soldier – Dead or Alive

Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv
Dec 4, 2024
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
1m 39s
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Introduction
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Finding Your Soldier
19m 49s
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Medals
9m 42s
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Other Records
4m 53s
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War Diaries
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Service Records
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Trench Maps
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Other Resources
4m 18s
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
5m 10s

About this webinar

New record images create the most complete set of records to identify the over 5.5 million soldiers served in the British Army during World War I. This is a large topic, but research has gotten easier during the last couple of years as original resources and indexes have become available online, and new finding aids have been created. This lecture examines what records were destroyed during WWII, what records survived along with how to use the new indexes, online originals and how to interpret them. Plus put the soldier’s actions into battle context.

About the speaker

About the speaker

Paul Milner, a native of northern England, is a professional genealogist and internationally known lecturer with 30 years’ experience, specializing in British Isles research. Here’s the backstory about Paul:
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  1. JS
    Julie Smart
    5 days ago

    Excellent webinar, probably the clearest explanation of records available om WW1 I’ve seen.

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  2. MM
    MaryAnn McLean
    6 days ago

    Paul never fails to give a wonderful presentation.

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  3. LB
    Louise Booth
    6 days ago

    Wow! Just what we needed to expand what we know about my husband’s Great Uncle Bertie! Turns out we’d only scratched the surface. Thank you!!!

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  4. TQ
    Tamara Quiring
    6 days ago

    Amazing webinar! So well done and full of information. I’ll be watching it again.

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  5. PB
    Patricia Briggs
    6 days ago

    Amazing webinar with so much information. Paul’s information is always so well laid out and easy to follow. Very interesting. Thank you for yet another great source of information.

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  6. BP
    Beth Phillips
    6 days ago

    As always — Paul Milner has new ideas and places to follow up — many thanks. Any possibility Mr. Milner would do a class on the Canadian Exped. Force and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in WWI?

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  7. RS
    Rhonda Sim
    6 days ago

    very interesting topic, terrific speaker with vast knowledge of the subject

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  8. BL
    Bev Leeming
    6 days ago

    Another great webinar from Paul. I’ve researched my soldier a fair bit but still learned some new pointers.

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