Explore moving new military records

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By Daisy Goddard | August 15, 2025

Delve deeper into British Army stories with this week's new and updated collections.

We've bolstered our military record collection with over 500,000 new additions this week. With records spanning over 300 years, uncover the experiences of your heroic ancestors.

Military Service Memorial Collection

This new set consists of 588,288 military records, spanning almost 400 years, from the English Civil War to modern conflicts like the Iraq War.

British Army, Royal York Rangers

We also improved an existing record set this week, adding 1,322 new additions from the 1880s to our York Rangers collection.

New pages from Walsall to Wiltshire

We've added five new titles including Fireside Companion and the Bradford Socialist Vanguard this week.

New titles:

Bradford Socialist Vanguard, 1908-1910, 1912-1920
Coventry Reporter and General Advertiser, 1886, 1888-1893, 1895, 1898-1911
Fireside Companion, 1879-1888
Walsall Football News, 1920-1939
Wiltshire News, 1913, 1916, 1918-1929, 1938-1945, 1949, 1960, 1962

Updated titles:

Bedford Record, 1924–1965
Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald, 1836
Colonial Guardian (Belize), 1898–1913
Coventry Times, 1855
East Kent Times, 1855–1856
Home News for India, China and the Colonies, 1871–1878
Illustrated Berwick Journal, 1928–1957
Irish Field, 1881–1887
Irish News and Belfast Morning News, 1896, 1912–1916, 1918
Leamington Advertiser and Beck’s List of Visitors, 1865, 1873
Leinster Leader, 1882–1883, 1888, 1890, 1990, 2002
Marlborough Times, 1900–1914
Morning Advertiser, 1820–1821, 1889, 1910
Northern Chronicle and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland, 1920–1929, 1940–1949, 1953–1969
Northern Times and Weekly Journal for Sutherland and the North, 1918, 1922–1929, 1940–1949
Preston Guardian, 1844–1846, 1862–1865
Sussex Daily News, 1889, 1894, 1897
Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 1822–1831
Waterford Citizen, 1876–1884, 1886–1888, 1890–1896
Weekly Times & Echo (London), 1868–1885, 1902–1907
Yorkshire Evening News, 1911