United Kingdom & Ireland » U.K. Military » Libraries, Archives & Museums

Click on the broken link graphic and fill in the form

• 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum

  Based in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery at the Strand, Derby. The Regimental Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history and legacy of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, a British cavalry regiment.

• A Guide to Archival Resources at McGill University//Guide des sources.

• Anglo-Boer War Museum

  Bloemfontein, South Africa.

• Army Museums Ogilby Trust

  Supports the development of those museums in the United Kingdom displaying the collections of the regiments and corps of the British Army.

  • A Brief Guide to Tracing Ancestors in the Army

    • Officers and Other Ranks 1914-1920

    • Officers and Other Ranks 1922 Onwards

    • Officers Prior to 1914

    • Other Ranks Prior to 1914

• Bermuda Maritime Museum

  Mangrove Bay, Bermuda.

• British Library - Newspapers - British Military History Collections, 1801-1945

  • Family History Research and British Military History, 1801-1945

  • Organisations and Resources for British Military History Research

  • Scope of the Collections for British Military History, 1801-1945

• British Red Cross Museum and Archives

  London, England.

  • History and Origin

  • Medals and Badges

  • Records of Prisoners of War

  • War-time volunteers and personnel records

• Churchill College: The Churchill Archives Centre

• FIREPOWER - The Museum of The Royal Artillery

  • James Clavell Library

• Historic Dockyard Chatham

  Kent.

  • History of the Dockyard

• Imperial War Museum

  London.

  • IWM Collections

    • Collections Online

      • Search All Archives

  • National Inventory of War Memorials

    • Family History

    • Search the Memorials

  • Tracing your Family History

    • A Short History Of The Merchant Navy

    • Army Family History

    • Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Family History

    • Tracing your Royal Navy Family History

    • Women at War

• In Flanders Fields Museum

  Museum in Belgium includes a Documentation Centre with a wide variety of resources. Databases & links to databases for casualties from Belgium, France, Germany & Great Britain.

• In Flanders Fields Museum

  Belgium.

• International Committee of the Red Cross - Archives

  Geneva, Switzerland. Instructions on how to request information on victims of armed struggle (prisoner of war, civilian held captive, deceased or interned).

  • Online Request Form

• List of military museums in the United Kingdom (Wikipedia)

• Military Archives

  Military Archives is the place of deposit for the records of the Department of Defence, the Defence Forces and the Army Pensions Board in Ireland. Apart from serving the evidential, legal and heritage needs of the Defence Forces and the Department of Defence, Military Archives can provide public services to a broad spectrum of interests, from family history queries to academic research, to material for television and radio documentaries. Located in Dublin, Ireland.

• Museum of Flight

  East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian.

• Museum of Military Medicine

  Mytchett, Surrey, England. The collections on display include uniforms & insignia, medical, dental and veterinary equipment, ambulances, an ambulance train ward coach, a carriage used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War and a large medal collection including twenty three of the 29 Victoria Crosses awarded to the Army Medical Services. Located in the Defence Medical Services Training Centre, Keogh Barracks.

  • History of the Royal Army Medical Corps

  • Research Enquiries Royal Army Medical Corps

• Museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment

• National Maritime Museum

  • Library and Archive Collection

    • Caird Library and Archive

      This collection includes personal papers of the famous and powerful, Admiralty and Dockyard records, and the business papers of shipping companies and other non-governmental organisations. Also Crew agreement lists and Certificates of Competency.

    • NMM Library Catalogue

    • Research Guides from The National Maritime Museum

      A listing of the National Maritime Museum's online research guides to their library and collections and to other related maritime sources.

      • Research Guide No. A3 - Tracing Family History from Maritime Records

        A brief introduction to maritime records you can use to discover more about your ancestors, family history or famous people. It is intended to help you get started on your research, using the National Maritime Museum's library and archives and other resources outside the museum.