WO 3641900-1994War Office: Soldiers' Documents from Pension Claims, First World War (Microfilm Copies and Medical Cards)
This series consists mainly of microfilm copies of service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who were discharged from the Army and claimed disability pensions for war service between 1914 and 1920, and did not re-enlist prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
The provenance of these records is important in understanding that they are unlikely to contain any papers for individuals who were either killed in action and had no dependants or who were discharged as part of the demobilisation at the end of the war and did not claim a pension.
The series also includes a sequence of papers ('medical cards') containing medical information about specific individuals, many of whom served in the armed forces after 1920.
Digital images of the microfilm can be searched online through our partner website. There are no current plans to digitise the paper cards.