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'''Update''' January 2015. Some of these records are now available on the pay website Ancestry, record category Military, with the dataset titled UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60506 UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929] Ancestry.com</ref>
====WW1 pension records=========WFA WW1 pension record cards=====
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170629115801/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/all-about-the-wfa/wfa-news-events/pension-records/the-wfa-preserves-a-major-great-war-archive-of-6-5-million-records.html "The Western Front Association preserves a major Great War archive of 6.5 million records"] by David G Henderson 08 November 2012, now an archived webpage
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170629115047/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/all-about-the-wfa/wfa-news-events/pension-records/pension-record-cards-and-ledgers-deeper-understanding.html "Great War Pension Record Cards and Ledgers: deeper understanding"] 31 March 2013, now an archived webpage.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170629114637/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/all-about-the-wfa/wfa-news-events/pension-records.html More details from WFA], now an archived webpage.
:'''Update''': December 2017 WFA Bulletin page 30 announced that Ancestry is to digitise and make available the Pension Records held by the WFA.<ref>rolt968. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/256156-ancestry-to-digitise-wfa-pension-records/ Ancestry to digitise WFA Pension Records] ''Great War Forum'' 18 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.</ref> No release date has been announced.
=====Scottish pension records=====Scottish WW1 Pension Appeals Tribunal records, National Records of Scotland catalogue reference PT6, are to be digitised by the Wellcome Trust and should be available by the end of 2019, free of charge, possibly through the ScotlandsPeople website.<ref>[http://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2018/01/scottish-ww1-pensions-appeal-records.html Scottish WW1 Pensions Appeal records update] The GENES Blog </ref>
====WW1 Casualty Lists====
In its military sense, the term "casualty" includes all those who are killed in action or who die of wounds, as well as those who are wounded, listed as missing, or taken prisoner of war.<ref>
