Eddie Tricker <etricker@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > My grandfather served in WW 1 and survived. > An inquiry made by myself back in the early 1990's found that his > service records were destroyed during the London bombings of the > second World war. > I was and am aware that the records people were putting the remains > of the burnt records together and then scanning them, creating a > digital record of the surviving documents. It was still in progress > during my last inquiry. > I also realize by this time that such work must be completed and the > results somewhere on-line for people to check if there any any "burnt > World War 1 records" for their forebears. > I do not have access to Ancestry, and am wondering if they are > available from any other source, eg National Archives? Eddie Unfortunately you are a week too late as last week, in recognition of Armistice Day, there was free access to the World War 1 records on Ancestry! You can of course examine the indexes at Ancestry without subscription (look in the Military section for British Army WW1 Service Records 1914-1920 and British Army WW1 Pension Records 1914-1920) to see if your relative is listed. If so perhaps somebody could do a lookup for you, if you give them the name of the person concerned. I believe that the work is now complete on scanning the records that survived. I have seen one or two with charred edges! Brian