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As an example of a record from the Army Birth Returns, a researcher has advised he has a “certified copy” from the GRO taken from “Army Book 112 (Register of Births) of the -th Bn. -th Punjab Regiment for the six months ending 30th June 19-- reported from the Military Station at Isak (North Waziristan)”. Note this Regiment was part of the [[Indian Army]].
He advised: I suspect the official recording and reporting of such events as births to British or foreign Indian Army soldiers’ wives were likely to have been done almost entirely through their Army channels with not a Chaplain in sight and would be dependent on the British/foreign father reporting the birth, although one needs to allow for delays in reporting - I was born before the six months specified above In my case it looks as if my father reported my birth to his adjutant a couple of months or more after the event when he was on operations (that means in a war situation) in Waziristan. <ref> By email to User:Maureene, 23-24 Feb 2010</ref>
The indexes in respect of the overseas registrations are most commonly called the British Army Overseas Indexes.
== External Links ==
*[http://www.familyrelatives.com/index.php Familyrelatives.com] You can browse the [http://www.familyrelatives.com/search/search_browseoverseas.php Overseas Indexes], which include the British Army Overseas Indexes on this website for free. If you then want to order a certificate, this can be done [http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates online] from the GRO. This will be a transcript, not a copy of the original document.
== References ==
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[[Category:Research methods]] [[Category:Records]]
