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- Available on:1939 Register
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Alien entry books
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Aliens’ registration cards 1918-1957
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:British Army and militia 1760-1915
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:British Army casualty lists 1939-1945
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections - Available on:Census records
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Crime, prisons and punishment 1770-1935
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Free online records: digital microfilm
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Keywords: art and artistsdigitised recordsforeign affairsinternational relationsonline collectionssecond world warworld war two All records viewable online - Available on:Maritime births 1867-1960
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Maritime deaths 1781-1968
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Maritime marriages 1854-1972
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy campaign medal records 1914-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy campaign medal records 1939-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Merchant Navy seamen registers 1835-1857
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Merchant Navy seamen registers 1918-1941
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy ships’ records: movement cards 1939-1945
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Nonconformist and non-parish births, marriages and deaths 1567-1969
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Prisoner of war interview reports 1914-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Prisoners of war: selected records 1715-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Railway employment records 1833-1956
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Recommendations for military honours and awards 1935-1990
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Available on:Royal Air Force airmen service records 1912-1939
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers’ pensions: claims by next of kin for unpaid monies 1830-1860
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Keywords: digitised recordsdiplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relationsonline collectionsprivate paperssecond world warworld war two All records viewable online - Victoria Cross registers 1856-1944
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Wills of Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel 1786-1882
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps service records 1917-1920
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Women’s Royal Air Force service records 1918-1920
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Women’s Royal Naval service records 1917-1919
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