Brand new Army and Navy records
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By Ellie Ayton | February 27, 2026
Was your ancestor in the armed forces? Find your family heroes and their amazing stories in our latest family history records.
From heroics on horseback to service on the seas, this week's new releases can help you trace your military ancestors' exploits. We've added thousands of detail-packed records from the British Army and Australian Navy. What will you uncover when you delve a little deeper?
British Army, Worldwide Index
There are over 235,000 new additions for the year 1881 to explore.
Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Artillery
Covering the years 1877-1882, there are over 72,000 new records to search in this collection.
These years saw the Royal Artillery deployed in major imperial conflicts, including the Anglo-Zulu War, the Second Anglo-Afghan War, and the Anglo-Egyptian War. Whether stationed in Britain, India, southern Africa, or Egypt, artillery units played a crucial role in Britain’s global military operations.
Australia, Navy Lists
Over 60,000 new records spanning 1905-1985 are now available for you to delve into.
Even more newspaper pages now online
We hit our milestone 100 million pages a few weeks ago, but we're not stopping there. We've added 259,715 further pages to our newspaper archive this week. New titles include British Cinema Chronicle and British Temperance Advocate.
New titles:
- British Cinema Chronicle, 1918
- British Temperance Advocate, 1853, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1884
- Doncaster Free Press, 1986-2004
- Leinster Express, 1831-1857, 1872-1896, 1905-1919
Updated titles:
- Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 1896-1899
- Bognor Regis Observer, 1986-2004
- Buteman, 1987-1990, 1992-1993
- Fireside Companion, 1888-1899
- Football Mail (Portsmouth), 1939
- Hackney Mercury, 1885-1894
- Hants and Berks Gazette and Middlesex and Surrey Journal, 1878-1891, 1911-1913, 1919
- Highland News, 1993
- London City Press, 1862, 1872-1881
- Manchester City News, 1873, 1877, 1889
- Mansfield & North Nottinghamshire Chronicle-Advertiser, 1989, 1996-1998
- Midland Free Press, 1858, 1866-1872, 1874-1880, 1895-1896, 1898-1910, 1912-1913
- New Observer (Bristol), 1972
- Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser, 1879, 1881-1882
- Pall Mall Gazette, 1908, 1910
- Prescot Reporter, 1877, 1888
- Reading Mercury, 1951, 1953-1957, 1959-1960
- Rutherglen Reformer, 1996
- Saffron Walden Weekly News, 1895
- St. Helens Newspaper & Advertiser, 1889
- Sutton & Epsom Advertiser, 1928
- Tadcaster Post and General Advertiser for Grimstone, 1867-1869, 1874-1876, 1878
