Over 700,000 British soldiers died in WW1 and almost every one of those men was entitled to a War Gratuity from the British Government. These War Gratuities are recorded in the Soldiers’ Effects Registers* however viewing these little known registers is just the start of your journey.
WW1 research can be difficult, over 60% of WW1 British Army service records were destroyed in 1940 along with millions of pages of army records. Thankfully the Soldiers’ Effects Registers survived and with these our unique War Gratuity calculator allows you the unrivalled chance to unlock the details shown in the Registers and recover information that is otherwise lost to history.
WarGratuity.uk do not hold copies of the actual Soldiers’ Effects Registers however we provide the unique means to interpret these Registers and understand them in the wider context of WW1 research.
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(* Soldiers’ Effects Registers are currently held by the National Army Museum but digitised by Ancestry.co.uk)
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