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Records
===The [London] Gazette===
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk The [London<nowiki>]</nowiki> Gazette] Official Public Record for the U.K. Free Search for officers' commissions and promotions, and gallantry awards for both officers and other soldiers. Search tips: include full stops after initials, and if the name includes an apostrophe, follow this by a space. <ref> Martin G. et al [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=236539&hl= London Gazette Black Belts] ''Great War Forum'' 19 February 2016 et al. Retrieved 17 May 2016.</ref>
:Some data from the ''London Gazette'' is available online elsewhere, where the Search facilities may be easier to use (Free Search, pay to view) :
: Ancestry includes the database "The London Gazette (London, England), 1825-1962" (located under Newspapers & Periodicals), but notes there are random gaps in this collection.
:[[findmypast ]] includes the database "The London Gazette, Supplements August 1914 - January 1920" (Located under Armed forces & conflict/Medal rolls and honours), which also includes promotions and Battle Despatches ===Landed Gentry genealogical sources===Officers were often of high social status/the Landed Gentry class and genealogical resources relating to this social class may provide Army details.*[http://www.burkespeerage.com/home.php Burke’s Peerage 1826–2016] A pay website which states “the definitive guide to the genealogy and heraldry of the Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Landed Gentry of the United Kingdom, the historical families of Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations….” :Editions of ''Burke's Peerage'' are available at major libraries.*[http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm The Peerage]. A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain. A free website. 
===Military records at the National Archives===
For advice about the National Archives, both about visiting and your options if you can't visit, see the Fibiwiki page [[ The National Archives]]
*[[Medals]]
*[[Military periodicals online]]
*[[Prince Consort's Library]], the military specialist library of the Army Library Service.
*[[Temperance organisations]]
*[[Trooping season]] including information about Troopships and conditions of troops sailing to India.
*[http://www.warof1812.ca/family.htm "A Soldier's Family in the British Army
 during the War of 1812"] 
by Robert Henderson warof1812.ca
*‪[http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/tommyatkins.htm Tommy Atkins]. A series of five articles including [http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/flipbook/atkinsdomestic/atkinsdomestic.html "The Domestic Life of Tommy Atkins"], [http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/flipbook/atkinsmarried/atkinsmarried.html "Tommy Atkins Married"], about aspects of life in the Army in the late Victorian period.<ref> Originally published in ''The Redan'', journal of The Palmerston Forts Society, three articles by Duncan Williams , (originally published in 1999-2001 (issues 46, 50, 53)) and two articles by David Moore (issues 72,74). From the website [http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/index.htm Victorian Forts and Artillery].</ref> These articles in turn include quotes from a series of articles which appeared in ''Navy and Army Illustrated'' commencing in June 1898 which gave insight into the life of an ordinary soldier.
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09612020000200233 "‘Delicate duties’: issues of class and respectability in government policy towards the wives and widows of British soldiers in the era of the great war"] by Janis Lomas ''Women's History Review'', 9:1, 2000 pages 123-147. For rank and file soldiers, “on the strength” widows pensions applied from 1901, and “off the strength” widows pensions applied from the beginning of the First World War.
*History of the British Army Vol II by J W Fortescue [http://archive.org/stream/historyofbritish02fortuoft#page/170/mode/2up First British troops to land in India p 171]
*The National Archives [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts podcasts] have a [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/military-history.htm military history] category including
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/sahib.htm Sahib, the British soldier in India, 1750 – 1914] by Professor Richard Holmes
*Recruiting regions of Irish infantry regiments in the British Army from 1881 until 1922. A list of regiments, depots, counties together with a map. Select page 5 of this the document in [httphttps://docsaran.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwwwlibrary.nuigalway.ie%2Fgeography%2Fdocuments%2FHeritage-Chapter.pdf /handle/10379/5134 this link] docs.google version] or [httphttps://wwwaran.library.nuigalway.ie/geographybitstream/documentshandle/Heritage-Chapter10379/5134/Ireland%27s_Heritages_Chapter.pdf ?sequence=6&isAllowed=y pdf]<ref>[httphttps://docs.googlearan.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwwwlibrary.nuigalway.ie%2Fgeography%2Fdocuments%2FHeritage-Chapter.pdf /handle/10379/5134 "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness"] (docs.google version) by John Morrissey, 2005 , Chapter 3 of ''Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity'' edited by M Mc Carthy 2005. Website: Geography Dept, National University of Ireland, Galway. [httphttps://wwwaran.library.nuigalway.ie/geographybitstream/handle/documents10379/Heritage-Chapter5134/Ireland%27s_Heritages_Chapter.pdf original ?sequence=6&isAllowed=y pdf]Website: ARAN, National University of Ireland, Galway. </ref>
*"Information Document on the Irish Regiments of the British Army up to 31st July 1922". Irish Military Archives Dublin [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.militaryarchives.ie%2Ffileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fdocuments%2FInformation_Document_on_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf docs.google version], [http://www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Information_Document_on_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf original pdf]
*"Irish Soldiers in the British Army 1792-1922: Suborned or Subordinate?" by Peter Karsten ''Journal of Social History Volume 17 No. 1 (Autumn 1983)'' pages 31-64 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reenactor.ru%2FARH%2FPDF%2FKarsten.pdf docs.google version] [http://www.reenactor.ru/ARH/PDF/Karsten.pdf original pdf]
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