Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres: A Guide for Family Historians

One of the large series of guides to tracing ancestral history in the armed forces by this publisher, this slim volume might also be called a “Directory of the First World War”, for, despite its title, it covers far more than just the battles of the Ypres Salient. Indeed, in one concise volume, you can find sources, mostly online ones, of data on those who served in all the services, what the various units achieved and much more beside.

Having had 100 years to gather, the data now available to family researchers are expanding rapidly as more record collections embrace...