<<snipped>> Anyone (from the first world war) who was considered for a pension or allowance, and certainly those who did receive an allowance, is likely to be in the WO 364 records available at TNA and on Ancestry. Unlike WO 363, my understanding is that these records are reasonable complete. (I do stand to be corrected on any of this) <<snipped>> Alas Keith - my understanding is that the WO364 records represent only a fraction of those WW1 soldiers receiving a pension. In fact, no-one can really explain why the pensions people had what's there - suggestions range from "surveys" to "couldn't be bothered to send them back". That, at any rate, is the story from The Great War Forum. Certainly the WO364 stuff is pension linked (usually!) but there are anomalies, such as soldiers in both 363 and 364. Again - I stand to be corrected! Adrian

Worth searching PIN class records at TNA too, which are in their online catalogue. Most (all?) of the entries are just surnames and initial forename though. Peter Bennett On 30 April 2014 17:57, Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> wrote: > > <<snipped>> > Anyone (from the first world war) who was considered for a pension or > allowance, and certainly those who did receive an allowance, is likely to > be > in the WO 364 records available at TNA and on Ancestry. Unlike WO 363, my > understanding is that these records are reasonable complete. > > (I do stand to be corrected on any of this) > <<snipped>> > > Alas Keith - my understanding is that the WO364 records represent only a > fraction of those WW1 soldiers receiving a pension. In fact, no-one can > really explain why the pensions people had what's there - suggestions range > from "surveys" to "couldn't be bothered to send them back". That, at any > rate, is the story from The Great War Forum. > > Certainly the WO364 stuff is pension linked (usually!) but there are > anomalies, such as soldiers in both 363 and 364. > > Again - I stand to be corrected! > > Adrian > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >