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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170629122000/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/all-about-the-wfa/wfa-news-events/pension-records/pension-record-lookup-request-fee.html Pension Record Cards: Manual Lookup Request] 31 March 2013. A fee applies. It is intended that these records be digitised in time. Note: this page is now archived but was still in force in June 2017. Enquire about the current situation.
**[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. Also see [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/december-2017/the-scanning-of-pension-records-is-underway/ "The Scanning of Pension Records is underway"] December 2017 WFA.</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 have indexed records produced and digitised, funded 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] 13 January 2018. The GENES Blog. Also see [https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2018/02/12/home-from-the-front/ Home From The Front] 12 February 2018. blog.nrscotland.gov.uk</ref>
