The Naval & Military Press' website for military historians and family genealogists.

There can hardly have been a family in Britain which was not touched in some way by the tragedy of the First World War, the "Great War for Civilisation".

Great Britain, alone among the major European nations, went to war in 1914 with an army based on voluntary enlistment, numbering just over 247,000 at the outset with 486,000 Reserves and Territorials. By November 1918 almost a further 5,000,000 had enlisted, over half of them volunteers. For the first time since Napoleon, Britain had become a nation in arms and, in January 1916, for the first time in the country's history, conscription was introduced. The war developed into one of attrition as the allies strove to break through the formidable enemy defences and, by the end, casualties on both sides were on a scale hitherto unparalleled.

In 1921, eighty one volumes were published embracing every regiment and corps of the British Army listing almost 662,000 Soldiers and 41,000 Officers who died in the war, and it is this immense undertaking which is available within this website on a pay-per-view basis. Please click here to see our scale of charges.

Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914 to 1919, is available now and is our first searchable database to go online. Coming soon will be the Army Roll of Honour, the British Army's casualty list for World War Two.