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==Other National Archives records==
*Some marriage and baptismal information for Royal Artillery soldiers and their family, including India related details, may be found in the National Archives series WO 69. Some of this information has been transcribed and may be found by entering the surname and “WO69” in the National Archives [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk Discovery Search]. Many of the records in this series were destroyed during the Second World War, so the records are incomplete. Also see [[Royal Artillery]] for more information.
*TNA series "War Office: UK and overseas garrisons: Registers of Baptisms, Confirmations, Deaths/Burials, and Marriage [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14363 WO 156]. A TNA Guide says "The registers are relatively few in number and mainly date from the 20th century". **Index records (with the possibility that some records may include an image) from some of the TNA series WO 156 are available in the [[findmypast]] datasets described above called "British Armed Forces and Overseas Births, Marriages, Deaths". 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. **Some of the deaths from this series are available online on the pay website ''deceased online'', for more details see further below, under [[Chaplains Returns#External links|External links]]/Mediterranean area/Malta.
*Ancestry (pay website) includes a database [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60931 UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960] (located in BMD records). This database consists mainly of Naval records, sourced from the National Archives, with relatively few records in respect of the British Army and does '''not''' include the GRO records referred to above.
****There is also some information about deaths, including some photographs of grave inscriptions, scattered through the regimental pages on [http://www.maltaramc.com/index.html British Army Medical Services and the Malta Garrison 1799 – 1979]. Includes a website Search
***There are some church records for Malta available at the [[London Metropolitan Archives]]
*** The Findmypast datasets described above "British Armed Forces and Overseas Births, Marriages, Deaths" include Malta.***[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 , Cyprus and CyprusSingapore. These records are described as "Selected pieces from the National Archives WO 156/103-122'", which are "UK and overseas garrisons; Registers of burials". 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". Also includes records from the National Archives series ADM 6, ADM 73, ADM 305. The majority/all? of the WO 156 records are also available on Findmypast.
***Details of [https://web.archive.org/web/20180723040408/http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/malta2.html Malta Registers at The National Archives] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20180723040404/http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/malta1.html Registers in Class ADM]. Includes B, M, B. (Note: (selected) burials are now available online, refer above). Alan McGowan’s "Garrison Church Registers", now an archived website.
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