Findmypast Friday: Find the Faces Of the Fallen

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New military records, maps and wartime newspapers are now online.

As Remembrance Day approaches, we've released a poignant collection to help you discover and honor family members who served in the Great War. Compiled from photographs published in our newspaper archive, behind every face is a powerful story of courage, loss, and resilience. Plus, we've added more Anglo-Boer War records, gazetteer maps and wartime newspapers.

Faces of the Fallen 1914-1918

Explore this unique collection of photographs from our extensive newspaper archive. During the First World War, newspapers across Britain published photos of those who fought, died, went missing, or were wounded in action, providing a deeply personal record of the human cost of the conflict. These photos offer a moving and powerful glimpse of how the war affected communities across the British Isles, with a remarkable story behind each one waiting to be uncovered. We will update this collection regularly as we find more pages, ensuring that we continue to illuminate and remember more names and stories.

Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902

We've added 22,752 more records to this important military collection. It holds hundreds of thousands of names drawn from more than five hundred sources, revealing the unit your ancestor served with, as well as details of medals, honors, or awards they received. Additionally, it features a thoroughly revised list of men who were killed in action, died of wounds, or succumbed to disease.

British Isles Gazetteers

We've updated this rich resource with 2,658 map images from The Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles. Packed with illustrations and maps, this collection of 19th-century gazetteers can reveal the parishes and placenames that shaped your family story with unmatched color and detail. Plus, they are perfect for exploring a region's local history and topography.

Nine new wartime papers

This week, delve into Citizen (London), Midland Free Press, Western Express and more to understand how the Great War unfolded through a local lens.

New titles:

• Brighouse Free Press and District Advertiser, 1914-1918, 1920
• Chatham, Rochester and Brompton Observer, 1914-1920
• Connaught Telegraph, 1914-1918
• Citizen (London), 1914-1917
• Cumberland Evening News, 1914-1918
• Haltwhistle Echo, 1914-1918
• Midland Free Press, 1914-1915
• Skegness Herald, 1914-1916
• Western Express, 1917-1919

Updated titles:

• Aberystwyth Observer, 1914-1915
• Aldershot Military Gazette, 1920
• Banffshire Journal, 1914-1920
• Bedford Record, 1920
• Blaydon Courier, 1914-1919
• Bo’ness Journal and Linlithgow Advertiser, 1914-1920
• Bournemouth Times and Directory, 1919-1920
• Boxing, 1917-1918
• Boxing World and Mirror of Life, 1919
• Bradford Daily Argus, 1915
• Buckingham Express, 1914-1915
• Cambrian News, 1917-1918
• Cannock Advertiser, 1914-1919
• Cork Weekly Examiner, 1920
• Cornish & Devon Post, 1914, 1916-1918
• County Courts Chronicle, 1914-1920
• County Express, 1917-1918
• Craven Herald, 1916
• Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 1918
• Drogheda Advertiser, 1915
• Dromore Leader, 1916-1920
• Dromore Weekly Times and West Down Herald, 1915-1919
• East Essex Advertiser and Clacton News, 1918
• Empire News & The Umpire, 1914-1918
• Enniscorthy Echo and South Leinster Advertiser, 1918-1920
• Evening News (Waterford), 1917-1920
• Exmouth Journal, 1916-1918
• Fife News, 1914-1920
• Finchley Press, 1914-1918
• Glossop-dale Chronicle and North Derbyshire Reporter, 1917-1918
• Hampstead & Highgate Express, 1914-1918
• Hants and Berks Gazette and Middlesex and Surrey Journal, 1914-1918
• Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors, 1918-1920
• Horwich Chronicle, 1914-1916
• Irish Homestead, 1916
• Irish Independent, 1916
• Irish Society (Dublin), 1917-1918
• Isle of Wight County Press, 1914-1918
• Islington Gazette, 1918
• Jewish World, 1917
• Kings County Chronicle, 1914-1920
• Leominster News and North West Herefordshire & Radnorshire Advertiser, 1914-1918
• Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 1914-1917
• Loughborough Herald & North Leicestershire Gazette, 1916
• Newtownards Chronicle & Co. Down Observer, 1914-1918
• Norfolk News, 1914-1918
• North Devon Gazette, 1914-1918
• Offaly Independent, 1914-1918
• Orcadian, 1917-1918
• Pawnbrokers’ Gazette, 1914-1919
• Pearson’s Weekly, 1918
• Peterhead Sentinel and General Advertiser for Buchan District, 1914
• Pontypool Free Press, 1914-1918
• Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, 1914-1920
• Roscommon Herald, 1914-1919
• Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 1916-1918
• Southern Times and Dorset County Herald, 1916, 1920
• St. Marylebone and Paddington Record, 1914-1919
• The World, 1914-1916
• Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald, 1917
• Tyrone Courier, 1914-1918
• Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times, 1916-1918
• Walthamstow and Leyton Guardian, 1915-1916
• Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 1918-1919
• Warminster & Westbury Journal, 1914-1918
• Waterford Standard, 1920
• West Cumberland Times, 1915, 1917
• Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer, 1915, 1919
• Willesden Chronicle, 1915-1918
• Winsford & Middlewich Guardian, 1916-1918
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser, 1914
• Yarmouth Mercury, 1915, 1917-1918

Find forgotten heroes in your family tree for FREE

The First World War left gaps in every family. Young men who never made it home, never married, and never had children to remember them. Until you find a name – your grandfather's brother, your great-grandmother's cousin. Then, you delve deeper to finally bring his story home. As Remembrance Day approaches, discover your family's forgotten heroes in millions of military records*, free until 13 November. *Exclusions apply.

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