Pension Records

As members of The Western Front Association will know, in 2012 the WFA stepped in to save from destruction over six million pension records of men who served in the Great War. Below are various articles explaining the background to these records.

Members of The Western Front Association can access these records as part of their membership package.

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Amputee With His Prosthetic Leg
3 February 2020

The Disabled First World War Soldier : how his pension was calculated

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William Schofield Pension Record Card
8 January 2020

'1917' - using the Pension Records to track down the characters in the film (if they'd been real!)

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Frederick King
6 November 2019

The Red Baron - his 'other rank' victims

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John Laidlaw Pension Record Card
11 October 2019

Pension Records for 'non-UK' soldiers

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Units Re Assembled, And Able To Be Accessed
11 October 2019

Some numbers (and images) around the WFA's Pension Records

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Merchant Marine Set Of Drawers On Top Of One Pallet Of Wooden Units
9 October 2019

An analysis of the Mercantile Marine index cards

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Ledger 8:MA:40
3 October 2019

An overview of the Pension System immediately after the War

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Horace Pickersgill
3 October 2019

Finding Horace: A two minute search of the WFA's Pension Records provides the answer

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James Wadsworth Pension Record Card
1 October 2019

How to use the 'Browse' function on Fold3 when researching the WFA Pension Records

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Map With Regions
22 September 2019

Index of counties within regions for Pension Records

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Leonard Maidment Pension Record Card
28 June 2019

Pension Record Cards - claims for soldiers who were killed

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Cornelius Hayes Outside His Home
24 January 2019

Official correspondence following a death in the Great War – Private Cornelius Hayes, Cheshire Regiment

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George Jenkins
16 November 2018

Finding Great Uncle George

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Edward Lea Family Photo
16 November 2018

'One Hell of a Row': A War widow's pension

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Arnold Loosemore
13 November 2018

Pension Records: Famous, Infamous, Extraordinary and Ordinary

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Robert William Walter Pension Record Card
8 November 2018

A Further Release of First World War Pension Records by Ancestry

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A Card For A Sailor Ernest Kerrigan
8 November 2018

Understanding the Ledger Indexing

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Ledger For Michael Roe Of The Labour Corps
19 October 2018

Further sets of Pension Records saved by The Western Front Association available on Ancestry

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Hms Hercules
30 September 2014

Pension Record Cards and Ledgers: some examples of dependents' cards

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George Buckley Pension Record Card
20 February 2014

The Western Front Association preserves a major Great War archive of 6.5 million records

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