787 Private Leonard Williams served King and Country during the First World War with the Essex Yeomanry. You can access this person's medal index card...MORE
1674 Private R C Williams served King and Country during the First World War with the Essex Yeomanry. You can access this person's medal index card vi...MORE
1674 Private Reginald Clarence Williams died whilst serving with the Essex Yeomanry during the First World War and is remembered by the Commonwealth W...MORE
4297 Albert Willis served with the Essex Yeomanry during the First World War. Our records indicate that there are one or more papers for this man in ...MORE
129 (Incomplete) Private Brice Willis served King and Country during the First World War with the Essex Yeomanry. You can access this person's medal i...MORE
2600 Francis Jeffrey Willis served with the Essex Yeomanry during the First World War. Our records indicate that there are one or more papers for thi...MORE
2619 George Willis served with the Essex Yeomanry during the First World War. There are papers for this man in series WO 364 (soldiers' pension recor...MORE
3023 (Incomplete) Private Henry J Willis served King and Country during the First World War with the Scottish Rifles. You can access this person's med...MORE
8153 Private James S Wills served King and Country during the First World War with the Essex Yeomanry. You can access this person's medal index card v...MORE
Major William Arthur Wills served King and Country during the First World War with the Rifle Brigade. You can access this person's medal index card vi...MORE
Launched in 2017, British Army Ancestors is a FREE site with a simple aim: to find or add photographs of British Army soldiers.
These six different avatars that you will find in search results identify the approximate periods of service of the individuals concerned.
On this British Army Ancestors website you will find over 12m records which have been collated from many sources. Search the database to add a photo or search the database simply to discover which records are available. Clicking the dark blue links in search results will take you to original records or transcriptions which are owned by third party partners such as The National Archives or Findmypast where payment may be required. The data on this site currently covers the date range 1850 to 1947.
The avatars on this site are intended as a guide for you and represent the British soldier throughout history. For example, if the red-jacketed soldier appears in your search results, this is an indication that this man probably served between 1850 and 1902.
SEARCH for a soldier, UPLOAD a photograph, REMEMBER the individual. There are millions of searchable names on British Army Ancestors and thousands of photographs covering conflicts from the Crimean War to the Second World War. HUNDREDS of new photographs are being added every week. Have you found your British Army Ancestor yet?
There are over 12 million names on the British Army Ancestors website and searching is easy and fast. Use the wildcard asterisk * to focus your search results. Searching is free but you will need to REGISTER in order to upload photographs or download existing images.
This website is regularly updated and new features announced on the British Army Ancestors blog. Remember too to check out the British Army Ancestors Facebook page which features a different person every day.
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NOTE There is also a RESEARCH button against every returned result on this site. Click on this button to find out more about research services for individual soldiers.
There are currently 106498 photos of British Army soldiers published on this website
