Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors
eBook - ePub

Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors

A Guide for Family Historians

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors

A Guide for Family Historians

About this book

The Second World War was the defining conflict of the twentieth century and it is one of the most popular and fascinating areas for historical research and for family historians. More records than ever are available to researchers whose relatives served during the war. And this new book by Phil Tomaselli is the perfect guide to how to locate and understand these sources and get the most out of them. He explains how, and from where, service records can be obtained, using real examples showing what they look like and how to interpret them. He also examines records of the military units relatives might have served in so their careers can be followed in graphic detail. The three armed services are covered, along with the merchant navy, the Home Guard, civilian services, prisoners of war, gallantry and campaign medals, casualties, womens services and obscure wartime organizations. Also included are a glossary of service acronyms, information on useful websites, an introduction to the National Archives and details of other useful sources.

Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Family History
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781783830770
Print ISBN
9781848842885
Subtopic
World War II

Table of contents

  1. FAMILY HISTORY FROM PEN & SWORD
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. PERSONAL INTRODUCTION
  7. Chapter 1 - GETTING STARTED
  8. Chapter 2 - CAMPAIGN AND GALLANTRY MEDALS
  9. Chapter 3 - THE ROYAL NAVY
  10. Chapter 4 - THE ARMY
  11. Chapter 5 - THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
  12. Chapter 6 - THE MERCHANT NAVY
  13. Chapter 7 - THE HOME GUARD
  14. Chapter 8 - SECRET ORGANISATIONS
  15. Chapter 9 - PRISONERS OF WAR
  16. Chapter 10 - THE HOME FRONT
  17. Chapter 11 - CIVIL DEFENCE
  18. Chapter 12 - COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE
  19. Appendix 1 - ROYAL NAVAL SHORE ESTABLISHMENTS THAT MIGHT APPEAR ON A SERVICE RECORD
  20. Appendix 2 - ARMY ABBREVIATIONS – UNITS
  21. Appendix 3 - ARMY ABBREVIATIONS – ARMY SERVICE RECORD
  22. Appendix 4 - ROYAL AIR FORCE ACRONYMS
  23. Appendix 5 - WEBSITES
  24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX

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