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Some of these records, in particular WO 116 (for what appears to be WO 116/1-165 being Cavalry and Infantry Disability October 1715 to '''1882''' (when the records cease) and Royal Artillery 1 November 1833 to '''1893''') (when the records continue but are not digitised) and WO 117 ( October 1823 to '''1913''') are available to '''download free of cost''' from the National Archives website, though the Discovery catalogue, or the links above. Note, some records within this series have been seen subject to a fee, if so it is suggested you query.
<br>Elsewhere, it is stated these are large pdfs, which need a broadband internet connection. This An Ancestry.com British Army Message Board post<ref>Scroll to post of Buisman, Loes 29 March 2012. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20210430023350/https://boardswww.ancestry.comco.uk/boards/topics.Military.uk.britarmy/2203?viewType=FLAT_VIEW&itemsPerPage=FIFTY British soldier returning home from India 1870's] ''Ancestry British Army Message Board'', archived.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1</mb.ashx post] ref> details some of the information found.
An interesting series of selected records is [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C11584?v=r '''PIN 71''': Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914]. This series consists of personal case files on disablement pensions arising from service in the Army or Navy before the First World War and case files concerning widows of such servicemen. The files contain medical records and details of place of birth, age, names of parents and siblings, religion, physical attributes, marital and parental status. The series appears to consist of approximately 6,300 individual files which are searchable by name online on the [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/ Discovery catalogue]. The actual files however are not available online.
