Findmypast Friday: Explore Moving New Military Records

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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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

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