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American Battle Monuments Commission
The ABMC is responsible for commemorating the services of the American Armed Forces through the establishment of suitable memorial shrines; operating & maintaining permanent American military burial grounds in foreign countries. Web site includes detailed descriptions of overseas cemeteries & searchable databases of war dead.
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Online searchable database of the 33,717 names of those American service personnel buried at ABMC cemeteries, those Missing in Action and those buried or lost at sea. Note that there were 116,516 US casualties in World War I.
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Ancestry.com - Search Military Records
Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription.
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American Soldiers of World War I
Original source: Haulsee, W.M., F.G. Howe, and A.C. Doyle, comp. Soldiers of the Great War. Volumes I-III. Washington, D.C.: Soldiers Record, 1920.
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Audrain County, Missouri Draft Records, 1917
Original source: Weant, Kenneth, ed. Audrain County, Missouri Volume 3. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.
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British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
Original source: War Office: Soldiers’ Documents from Pension Claims, First World War (Microfilm Copies); (The National Archives Microfilm Publication WO364); Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.
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British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Original source: War Office: Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ (Microfilm Copies); (The National Archives Microfilm Publication WO363); Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.
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British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918
Original source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission. War Graves of the British Empire. London: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Camp Travis, Texas World War I Records
Original source: Major E. B. Johns, U. S. A, compiler. Camp Travis and Its Part in the World War Texas: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., New York, 1919.
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Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll, 1914-18
Original source: Indiana Historical Commission. Indiana World War Records: Gold Star Honor Roll, A Record of Indiana Men and Women who died in the service of the United States and the Allied Nations in the World War, 1914-1918. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Commission, 1921.
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Kitchener, Ontario German War Graves
Burial listing of German prisoners of war who died while in Canada during either the First or Second World War.
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U.S. Naval Deaths, World War I
Original source: McHenry, Kathy. Naval Deaths in the First World War.
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U.S. World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1930
Original source: List of Mothers and Widows of American Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Entitled to Make a Pilgrimage to War Cemeteries in Europe. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930.
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World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Original source: National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 4,277 rolls.
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WWI Civilian Draft Registrations
Original source: Partial index of microfilmed draft registration cards: United States. Selective Service System. Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. National Archives Microfilm Publications: M1509, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1987-88.
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WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings
Original source: American Battle Monuments Commission. World War I Listing; World War II Listing; Korean War Listing. American Battle Monuments Commission.
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Australian ANZACs in the Great War 1914-1918
Online searchable database for more than 330,000 men & women who embarked from Australia for service overseas in the (First) Australian Imperial Force. Research & information from the University of New South Wales & the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
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Search is free. Obtaining printouts of additional information for an ANZAC requires an additional fee.
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Approximately 28,000 Belgian soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1918.
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Using the World War I Draft Card Database at Ancestry.com
This article discusses search techniques for using the World War I draft card database at Ancestry.com.
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County-by-county links to lists of civilian men who registered for the World War I draft.
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County-by-county links to lists of civilian men who registered for the World War I draft.
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Burnt Documents at the Public Record Office
Article by Richard Senior on accessing and using the Burnt Documents from the Great War.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Details of 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and other wars, and 60,000 civilian casualties of WWII. Gives details of grave site, date of death, age, usually parents/widow's address.
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Digitized copies of rolls, casualties, regimental histories: Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII.
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Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
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Gorrell's History - AEF Air Service
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Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917-1919.
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Naturalization Index - WWI Soldiers
Original source: NARA M1952. Index cards for locating naturalization records for soldiers serving in the US Armed Forces during World War I, specifically the year 1918.
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Records of the Department of State Relating to World War I and its Termination, 1914-1929, NARA M367.
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WWI Military Cablegrams - AEF and War Dept
Cablegrams Exchanged Between General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, and the War Department, 1917-19, NARA M930.
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WWI Supreme War Council, American Records
Records of the American Section of the Supreme War Council, 1917-19, NARA M923.
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Genealogy Quest - Military Collection - World War 1 (WW1)
On 14 November 1918 the commander of the American expeditionary forces announced 1,067 casualties. The US Army deaths are listed here along with rank and cause of death for each soldier.
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Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths Reported on 25 May 1919
US Army Deaths Reported on 25 May 1919.
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Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths, 1918
US Army, Marine Corps and Canadian deaths reported on 18 September 1918. Includes name, rank, cause of death and emergency contact address.
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Geoff's 1914-1921 Search Engine
A search tool to find records held in The Commonwealth War Graves Commission database for Commonwealth WW1 and WW2 casualties.
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The visit of Commonwealth War Cemeteries, Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France with data base for each cemetery.
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