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Online search [https://www.gov.uk/probate-search#before-you-start Find a soldier's will] Search for the will of a soldier who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986. govUK Government Probate Service.ukFree to search, (but first you must register) and then pay for a record.

No further details are given, but previously this [http://researchlondon.info/probate/probate-calendars-to-be-online-soon link]<ref>[http://researchlondon.info/probate/probate-calendars-to-be-online-soon Probate Calendars to be Online Soon] from Geoff Swinfield’s researchlondon.info and [http://www.ffhs.org.uk/news/news120510.php News from FFHS]. </ref> advised that 300,000 wills of soldiers killed in action were to become available online. They do not include officers. These wills date from the Crimea period onwards, and appear to be “wills wills completed by soldiers in their paybooks”paybooks. They do not include officers. "The Will form was at the back of the Pay Book, it was only removed after the person was killed, if they could recover the pay book".<ref> Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=198685&p=1950551 post] dated 30 August 2013 </ref>