National Archives Medal Rolls online

[Maureene]

Some of the National Archives Medal Rolls in the WO 100 series may be downloaded for free from the National Archives. Note however they are generally large PDFs.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/docu ... Fdate+desc . This is a link to a description of 556 documents.

You can you use this search, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/docu ... owersearch and just tick Digital Microfilm, but I suspect the search facility is not very accurate.

I have however noticed some Sudan medals and a few Boer War lists, in addition to Indian ones, but have only looked at some of the pages.

Cheers
Maureen

[Maureene]

The National Archives has introduced a new catalogue and the free downloads for the WO 100 Medal Roll records may be reached through this new link
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.u ... 763763?v=r

There is a Search facility (but not for individual names within the records)

A section has been added to the FIBIS Fibiwiki page Medal Rolls where there are links to medal rolls relating to India which are contained in the WO 100 records.
http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Medal_Rolls

There seem to be some medals relating to India which not covered in the WO 100 records, (unless they are not catalogued clearly). Is anyone able to clarify this? There are additional medal rolls available at the British Library

The WO 100 records are also available on the pay website Ancestry, but the downloads are helpful if you don't have access to Ancestry.

Cheers
Maureen

[SWB]

The WO100 downloads from TNA are a huge help for researchers, but if you are downloading the QSA rolls be warned they are not complete. There are pages missing from some rolls - you have to fill the gaps with the rolls on Ancestry. And to complicate matters there are pages missing from the Ancestry KSA rolls.

So, there are at least two versions of microfilmed rolls out there and neither is complete.

Regards
Meurig