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→Soldiers’ wills
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]].
For soldiers with a Scottish domicile, [http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=554&2281 Soldiers’ Wills] are available on ScotlandsPeople. scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Free to search, but pay to view. Most are from WW1, then WW2, with very limited data for other dates.
[http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/search/sw/home.jsp Soldiers Wills 1914-1918] National Archives of Ireland. Search online. The National Archives of Ireland holds over 9,000 wills of enlisted and non-commissioned soldiers domiciled in Ireland, from the thirty-two counties of Ireland, who fought in the British Army in the World War I and in the South African war of 1899-1902. The collection does not include wills of commissioned officers.
