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No further details are given, but previously this [http://researchlondon.info/probate/probate-calendars-to-be-online-soon link]<ref>[http://researchlondon.info/probate/probate-calendars-to-be-online-soon Probate Calendars to be Online Soon] from Geoff Swinfield’s researchlondon.info and [http://www.ffhs.org.uk/news/news120510.php News from FFHS]. </ref> advised that 300,000 wills of soldiers killed in action were to become available online. They do not include officers. These wills date from the Crimea period onwards, and appear to be wills completed by soldiers in their paybooks. It appears the majority are from WW1. The article [https://web.archive.org/web/20170511071913/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/research-family-story/3306-wills-of-english-soldiers-killed-in-the-great-war.html "Wills of English soldiers killed in the Great War"] by David Tattersfield 25 September 2013 (“The Western Front Association”, now an archived webpage) has more details.
'''Update'''. What appears to be the same database of Index records only in respect of privates and non-commissioned officers, is now available on the pay website Findmypast,<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-armed-forces-soldiers-wills-1850-1986 "British Armed Forces Soldiers' Wills 1850-1986"] Findmypast database of Index records.</ref> added c 20 November 2020, at which time located in Civil Deaths & Burials/Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records. Full records from UK Government Probate Service, see above.
The index to some soldiers’ wills, perhaps more likely to be officers' wills, are also available in the Probate Calendars Of England & Wales 1858-1996, in an additional section on the UK Government website, mentioned above. Also see [[Wills, Administrations, Probate and Inventories]].
