No matter in what avenue your family member served – whether they joined the Forces, did what they could in the factories and fields the Home Front, travelled to tend the sick on the battlefields of the Western Front or worked for the government – theirs
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The Battle of Hong Kong 1941
The Battle of Hong Kong (8th –25th December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.
The Great War in Numbers
With Remembrance Sunday 2018 just days away, Forces War Records takes a look at the numbers behind the Great War 1914-18
The Second Battle of Cambrai 1918
On 8 October, the First and Third British Armies broke through the Hindenburg Line at the Second Battle of Cambrai
The Fifth Battle of Ypres
Learn more about the British victory in the fifth Battle of Ypres in WW1
Soldiers of the Great War 1914-18 ‘Getting started researching your military ancestor’
Are you researching YOUR Great-War military ancestor? Let Forces War Records Help you.
Second Battle of the Somme 1918
This was the main British counter-offensive by the Third and Fourth Armies in response to the four-month German onslaught of the Spring. It involved a major offensive against the German Second Army and opened with the Battle of Albert (21st-23rd Aug). Thi
First day of the Somme & Researching YOUR Somme Tommy
In the first day of fighting alone, the most deadly of all, 19,290 Allied troops died, 35,493 were wounded, and 2,000 listed as missing. From among these vast numbers, it is possible – and extremely moving – to find out more about your ancestor’s role in
Military Photograph and Document Recognition
Forces War Records can offer a photo and document recognition service, which could help you learn more about the military individuals in your family
First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ bomb attack on London
On the 13th June 1944 the first German attack on Britain using the V-1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the ‘doodlebug’, took place.