Discover moving new military records

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By Daisy Goddard | June 21, 2024

This Findmypast Friday, there are 19,880 additions for you to explore.

This Findmypast Friday we added a bumper release of new military records from the 19th and 20th centuries.

In addition to updating our Coldstream Guard collection with over 14,000 new photos, we added two new record sets - from the H.M.S Alceste's Mission to China in 1817 and the Battle of Barrosa in 1811.

There are also 206,336 newspaper pages to explore, within one new title and 25 updated ones.

British Army, Coldstream Guards 1800-1981

This week, you can discover the history of the Coldstream Guards in more vivid detail than ever.

Coldstream Guards football team. View this photo.

14,293 new photographs of the Coldstream Guards have been added this week - you'll find a wide range of images within this release, with photos covering everything from life in the trenches to the regiment's football team.

Peninsular War, Battle of Barrosa 1811

This brand-new set contains 256 transcriptions from the British Navy's 1817 mission to China.

Royal Navy, H.M.S. Alceste Mission To China, 1817

If your military ancestor fought in the Battle of Barrosa during the Napoleonic Wars, their name may appear within these 5,331 new transcriptions.

New pages from Halifax to Hartlepool

We added 206,336 pages to our newspaper archive this week - with one new Yorkshire title and updates to 25 of our existing publications.

Pudsey & Stanningley News, 7 January 1881.

Here's everything we added to our newspaper archive this week.

New titles:

Pudsey & Stanningley News, 1881-1896, 1899-1903

Updated titles:

Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 2001-2002
Barnoldswick & Earby Times, 1987, 1989
Belper News, 1921, 1924, 1926-1929, 1988
Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1987, 1989
Biggleswade Chronicle, 1988, 1992-1993, 2003
Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press, 1993
Bucks Herald, 1993
Chorley Guardian, 1987, 1989, 1998
Derbyshire Times, 1994
Eastbourne Gazette, 1993, 1995, 2002
Eastbourne Herald, 1993
Halifax Evening Courier, 1993-1994
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1961-1963, 1969-1975
Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser, 1995
Hunts County News, 1889, 1918
Irish Independent, 1940
Kirriemuir Herald, 1988
Lancaster Guardian, 1986-1987, 1991
Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 1988
Louth Standard, 1994, 1998
Nelson Leader, 1968-1969, 1971-1975, 1987-1988, 1990
Shields Daily Gazette, 1931, 1939
Shields Daily News, 1937
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 1995, 1999
Worthing Herald, 1993-1994

Have you made a surprising family history discovery? Whatever you've uncovered about your past, we'd love to hear about it. You can now get in touch and tell us using this handy form.

Last week we added over 22,000 parish records from Bedfordshire - you can explore the full release here.