Getting started -- Organization of the Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The Army before 1660 -- Officers -- Other ranks: enlistment and conditions of service -- Medals, honours and awards -- Casualty records -- Discipline and desertion -- Pension records -- Militia, 1757-1914 -- Women -- British in India -- Dominion and Colonial forces -- Militia 1757-1914 -- Women and the Army -- The British in India -- Dominion and Colonial forces -- The South African War (1899-1902) -- The First World War -- The Second World War -- The Army in peacetime, 1919-1969 -- A short guide to Army service numbers -- Problem solving -- Fowler's Laws of Military genealogy -- Regimental organization.