World War I Soldiers' Death Records Now Online

Over 700,000 British soldiers died in WWI, with one in eight soldiers never returning home. For frontline units, the casualties were as high as one in five.

Now a new searchable index on 1837Online has made it possible to search for those who died in World War I and discover online a soldier's place of birth, residence
and where they enlisted.

The online records will be able to help anybody interested in genealogy looking for a relative that died whilst serving for the British army in WWI. The indexes include every rank, from soldiers to lance corporals that served in the British army. It also details support staff, such as "nags men" and musicians, who usually enlisted as non-fighting men but sometimes became stretcher-bearers, facing the brutalities of the front line.

The amount of information held on each soldier varies, but a full entry will give...

• Surname


• Forenames


• Initials


• Place and country of birth


• Place of enlistment


• Place of residence


• Rank


• Army number


• Regiment/Corps etc


• Battalion etc


• Date of death


• How he died


• Theatre of war


• Supplementary notes, which include information such as former army numbers and regiments