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**Some of the Registers of burials, described as "Selected pieces from the National Archives WO 156/103-122'" have been digitised and are available on the pay website "deceased online", refer below.
**Index records (with the possibility that some records may include an image) from some of the National Archives series WO 156 are available in the [[Findmypast]] datasets described above. The overseas records appear to be WO 156/106 Cyprus burials; WO 107-110 Egypt burials; WO 156/111-117, 121-122 Malta burials; WO 156/119 Singapore burials; WO 156/594-595 Malta baptisms & marriages; WO 156/596-598 Malta baptisms.
*TNA record series [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C435 Division within CO Government gazettes from the colonies] 1794-1990. Also includes mandated territories such as Iraq, CO 813 1921-1955, and Palestine, CO 742 1919-1948, although Egypt is not included. These Government Gazettes, known as ''Blue Books'' often contained occupational details, although sometimes a ''Civil List'' was issued as a separate publication. As an example see [[Hong Kong]] or [[Ceylon]] where some of these publications are available online.
==Military Overseas records for BMD==
*Egypt had compulsory civil registration for births and deaths from 1912 for all, including foreigners. <ref> [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/isp/013_the_develop_of_the_vital_stat_system_in_egypt.pdf "The Development of the Vital Statistics System in Egypt"] by Gamal Askar January 1981.</ref> [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Egypt_Genealogy Egypt Genealogy] FamilySearch Wiki.
:Also see a reference to Egyptian Garrisons, on the Fibiwiki page [[Chaplains Returns]], in a description of records from Regimental Registers which have never been indexed.
:[http://egypt.gov.eg/English/Home.aspx Egyptian Government Website] (English Language version)
:*Electronic Services/Subjects/ Personal document services. Note however the links within the latter are not "active", they do not lead anywhere (at 2020/08/22). Elsewhere it has been stated that the application for BMDs is in Arabic. Perhaps you could contact your Embassy for advice.
*[https://www.deceasedonline.com deceased online], a website which is free to search but pay to view, has some records for military burials in Malta, also Egypt and Cyprus. For more details, from the deceased online Home Page, select Coverage and scroll down to " “The National Archives - Military Burials” date added: 12 Dec 2013". Includes records from the National Archives series ADM 6, ADM 73, ADM 305 and WO 156. At least some of these records are also available on Findmypast, refer above.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180806125328/http://maltafamilyhistory.com/ Malta Family History], now an archived website. Includes data for births, marriages and burials. Also includes data about other areas such as the Ionian Islands, including Corfu and has a section called "Other Mediterranean Cemeteries" which includes Gibraltar and Smyrna, Turkey. The Smyrna database also includes baptisms and marriages (1795 – 1832). Although this site is now archived, most/all of the internal links appear to be available. Note there are two Index pages, the first Index page is linked from the Home Page, and the second Index page is linked from the first Index page.
