Hi again Findmypast have the Chelsea pension and Militia records to 1913 If your men served in WW1 any surviving service records would be on Ancestry 1914 on to 1921 They are in two main batches The first are the surviving service records called the burnt records Approx two thirds of the service records were destroyed or damaged in WW2, so there is more chance that they do not survive than do Those that survive vary from one page to many The other batch titled pension records by Ancestry which would be better entitled all those not with the main records are a mixture of pension and odd records, there are some cases of men having records in each batch and most with none at all If you know their service numbers you can look for their medal cards on Ancestry and then try the service records The service records have a mixture of words indexed , some have an address, other a birth year, others a birthplace or a mixture of those or none at all , so its worth trying all variations of name and try any addresses known around the time of service If you have war casualties you should also try Soldiers died in the Great War (both Ancestry & Findmypast have it) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hello Nivard, > > Thank you very much for your prompt reply to my query about the Militia and WWI service - much > appreciated. I now have a much better understanding of the subject. The data that have on hand is > from "findmypast" and most of it relates to the Militia attestations rather than service records > for WWI. I have of course obtained burial records from the CWGC site and detailed war diaries > relating to some of the men in question from a regimental historian but what I am missing is the > service. Perhaps some are available from the National Archives records - they certainly aren't > available on line. > > Martyn, > Queensland, Australia