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*The [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website holds four nominal rolls for currently (2017/3) includes the following databases, all located in the category "Armed forces & conflict"**Sub-category "Regimental & service records"***Royal Artillery soldiersAttestations 1883-1942. One is a list of In practical terms this database consists men who were awarded in the Military Medal between 1916Royal Artillery post WW1 and is a valuable database as it may also include information about prior Army service. For more details about this class of records, see [[British Army#Attestation, or Enlistment books (Army Book 358) from 1920|British Army - Attestation, or Enlistment books (Army Book 358) from 1920]].***Royal Artillery Honours & Awards. This database is a subset of “Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards” and is described as Royal Artillery Honours & Awards, 1886-2013 – Transcripts only***Royal Artillery Officer Deaths 1850-19932011**Sub-category "Service Records" ***"Royal Artillery Officers 1716-1899". These records are from the fourth edition of the ''List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The other reveals year 1716 to the officers year 1899'', collected by General W. H. Askwith, Colonel-Commandant Royal Artillery and men who were decorated for Gallantry during the Second World War published in 1900. It also holds Refer online books below.***"British Army, Royal Artillery Attestations 1883, 80th Field Regiment, WW2". Transcripts from various records.**Sub-1942category "First World War" - which"Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book, 1914-1918" . This book was published in practical terms 1920 and consists of post WW1 attestationsan alphabetical list of 3, and 505 Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery who died during the First World War** Sub-category "Second World War" - "Royal Artillery Other Ranks: Casualty Cards 1939-1947". From original cards previously held at the Royal Artillery Museum, refer Museum closure above.:Searching is free but charges apply for examination of the record.
*Ancestry introduced in April 2016 the data base [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60931 UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960] which contains some Royal Artillery records from the National Archives records WO 69 series: WO 69/67-69,72,73,551-573,575-577,579,580,582.
