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=== Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum, now closed===
Firepower Museum at Woolwich closed on 8 July 2016. It had a Library and Archive with extensive holdings including battery records. A research service was available.
The Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre will take over as The Home of the Royal Artillery Collection Prior to closing it was advised there would be “controlled access” to the archive and library, prior to a move to Larhhill on Salisbury Plain, perhaps in 2020.<ref> dbf. [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/60315-firepower-is-closing/?p=697189 FirePower is closing] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 27 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016</ref> The Sailsbury Plain Heritage Centre However currently will take over as The Home of (27 July 2016) the new website advises "the Royal Artillery CollectionMuseums Board has decided to suspend its ability to answer queries on service records and other Regimental and Battery histories", and "the collection will not be open to the public while in storage".
Firepower produced a guide for family history researchers called "Is There A Gunner In Your Family Tree?" The sixteen page guide outlined how the Museum's extensive archives could help researchers. It also detailed the other main UK sources and archives to explore when researching army service.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunner_(rank) Gunner (rank)] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_(rank) Bombardier] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.salisburyplainheritagecentre.com Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre] Home of the Royal Artillery Collection. Not expected to open until c 2020.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://7fd-regt-raa-association.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviations.doc Glossary of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobson]. 7fd-regt-raa-association.com, now an archived website. This is a (Word document) download to your computer, which must then be opened. Appear to be extracts from the book [http://op-ack.tripod.com/royalartilleryglossaryoftermsandabbreviations/index.html ''Royal Artillery Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations''] by Philip Jobson 2008
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php Great War Forum]
