Tracing your Service Women Ancestors- a guide for family and local historians

Here Mary Ingham explains which records relating to women in service survive, where they can be found and how they can help in researching Service Women, vividly describing the role of women with the armed services from the Crimean War of the 1850s to the aftermath of the First World War, both home and abroad.

Outlining the origins and history of each service, describing uniforms, and with examples of daily life and likely experiences, this book will help the researcher follow up clues that indicate that a women ancestor served in wartime.

Pages: 224
Published: 19th April 2012