The following books are a useful introduction to researching British Army records. Additional publications are available on the website of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust.
‘In Search of Army Ancestry’ by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards
Phillimore and Co, London, 1977. ISBN 0 85033 287 7
‘Army Records for Family Historians’ by Simon Fowler and William Spencer
Public Record Office, Kew, 1998. ISBN 1 873 162 59 6
‘Tracing Your Family History – Army’
Imperial War Museum, London, 1999. ISBN 1 901623 35 1
Many regiments have their own published history. Details of these can be found in the following books:
‘A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army’ by Arthur S White
London Stamp Exchange, London, 1988, ISBN 0 948130 61 X
‘Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth 1758-1993: a Critical Bibliography of their Published Histories’ by Roger Perkins
Newton Abbott, 1994, ISBN 0 9506429 3 2
Both volumes are available together on CD as ‘Armies of the Crown’, from the Naval and Military Press.
