Find-a-photo

Band boys, Middlesex Regiment, circa 1890s.

Are you still looking for a photo of your elusive British Army ancestor? Advertise your photograph wants on this British Army Ancestors Find-a-Photo page. Read the information on the right-hand side panel to see how this service works. Remember to search the British Army Ancestors website first to make sure the photo you are looking for has not already been published, and also read my photo-tracing tips on the ABOUT page.

BRITISH ARMY PHOTOGRAPHS SOUGHT

It costs just £25 to place a line advertisement on this page. Read the instructions on the side panel and then drop a line to me at paul@britisharmyancestors.co.uk. Placing a Photograph sought request is not a guarantee of success – but it could be that vital step in the right direction.

To improve your chances of success, why not super-charge your search by also publishing your requirements on my Army Ancestry Research blog? See below for more details.

Super-charge
Shooting team, 1st Volunteer Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, circa 1897
Shooting team, 1st Volunteer Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, circa 1897.
Shooting team, 1st Volunteer Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, circa 1897

PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED

Still looking for a photograph of your elusive British Army soldier? British Army Ancestors now offers a low-cost photo-finding solution - Find-a-Photo - where you tell me who you are looking for and I publish the details here on the Find-a-Photo page. The idea is that the internet search engines do the rest. Here's an example of how it works.

In June 2009 on my British Army Medals blog, I listed a number of men for whom I sought medals. Captain Alfred Iliffe MC of the Bedfordshire Regiment, below, was one of the men I wrote about.

Find-a-Photo. Captain Alfred Eldred Iliffe, Bedfordshire Regiment, photographed with his sisters in 1917

Eight years later in January 1917 I was contacted by someone who had recently purchased a photo of Alfred on eBay. Searching for "Bedfordshire Regiment" and "MC" online, a search engine delivered him to my article and I was able to purchase the photo, below, that he had recently bought.

Find-a-Photo. Captain Alfred Iliffe MC, Bedfordshire Regiment

Here's how the service works.
1. You send me the details of the soldier you are looking for: full name, rank, regiment, regimental number (if applicable), birth and death details (if known). Send to me at

paul@britisharmyancestors.co.uk

2. I will publish this information on the British Army Ancestors Find-a-Photo page along with a reference number which I will maintain in a separate database.


3. Your email address and personal details will not be shared or published elsewhere.

4. The one-time fee to publish this information on this Find-a-photo page on your behalf is £25.

There are currently 103264 photos of British Army soldiers published on this website